Refurbishment of former bank building on Harcourt St, Dublin2 into a 4* star 150-bedroom sustainable hotel with additional two floors, providing 4-bedroom types, three bars and bistro. The hotel offers the traveller and local clientele a unique, classic and contemporary experience in one of Europe’s most green hotels.

Our brief was to deliver a 4*star hotel, including bedrooms and public spaces, that offers every comfort to the modern traveller and provides a unique experience in the heart of Dublin, next to the majestic Iveagh Gardens. Whilst also being a hotel, it was imperative to attract a local clientele where they feel welcomed and at home in an inviting destination bar and bistro. Taking the clients requirements, the location and being sensitive to the existing Georgian buildings features, and history, our aim was to deliver a classic, original and timeless space that encompasses all these elements. 

Our favourite aspect of the design is the mix of contemporary art-deco style furniture against the backdrop of the Georgian windows, and the layers of different textures used throughout including brass, acrylic, deep tones of timber, marble and vibrant stone. The hotel is a green energy hotel, the first of its kind in Europe, which allowed us to source materials and finishes within Ireland, and the entire team worked so well together trying to make it happen.

The design works well as it encompasses all the necessities required to make it a destination bar, restaurant, meeting place and place of rest to both the local professional and business or leisure traveller, in a welcoming environment that easily transitions for any function both day and night.