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Containing 95 rooms over six
floors, the building's form locates more rooms near the top
to take advantage of views of the city. Porthole-style windows
pivot open, almost announcing the presence of somebody in
their room. The exterior palette is simple, the copper cladding
on the vertical faces, a wooden underside to the hotel mass,
and concrete end walls supporting
and stabilizing the building. It's in this last piece that
the design finds its postmodern expression, as the concrete
walls appear too thin and tall to serve their use; the center
core achieves additional structural support to create this
jarring effect.
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