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Thursday24 May 2012

Hotels

Building studies

The two-year rush hour: London’s Park Plaza hotel

Park Plaza has built a 1,000-bedroom hotel and conference centre in the middle of one of London’s noisiest roundabouts. But it was delivering the project in just 24 months that kept the construction team suitably stressed

This clock tower, with its open-plan bathroom and wrought-iron stairs up to an original watchmaker’s hut, is one of the most expensive apartments

Sleeping beauty awakes: the St Pancras Midland Grand hotel

The fairy-tale castle that is the Midland Grand hotel has been asleep for a very long time. Now the arrival of the Eurostar has roused it, and it is once again to become the most stylish address in London

The large hallways, which, in its day would  have been very grand

St Pancras Midland Grand Hotel: A hotel to remember

The Midland Grand Hotel used to be a vast, obsolete luxury liner moored alongside St Pancras station. Then it was an office, then a ruin, and in a few years it will become something truly splendid.

The right formula: Abu Dhabi's Yas Hotel

With its dramatic architecture, precise engineering and top-speed construction, the Formula One-themed Yas Hotel has outlapped most of Abu Dhabi’s other buildings

The grand staircase in the St Pancreas hotel

St Pancras Midland Grand Hotel: A hotel to remember

The Midland Grand Hotel used to be a vast, obsolete luxury liner moored alongside St Pancras station. Then it was an office, then a ruin, and in a few years it will become something truly splendid.

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