VIP-GRAND Hotel & SPA

Year 2007
Location Lisbon, Portugal
Status completed
Area 29.000 M²
Photography FG + SG

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The programme initially given to us proposed the conversion of the former headquarters of the Portuguese Television (RTP – Rádio Televisão Portuguesa) into a 5 star hotel, contemporary and innovative. The existing building would be able to accommodate the new program without suffering many changes. It suggested a formal partition in three distinctive areas: basement, floors 0 and 1, and tower. Following this formal distinction, the distribution of the programme was accomplished in a natural way. The basement, with three floors below street level, is mainly used for parking. Technical areas as well as staff facilities can also be found in these levels. On floors 0 and 1 that compose the public areas, we have the social and public areas of the hotel. The tower, with 12 floors, holds 264 bedrooms and 31 suites. Given back to the building itself were the scale, the nobleness and the monumentality that had always characterized it.