Architonic's most-viewed projects of 2021: Hospitality interiors

Scritto da James Wormald
14.01.22

This eclectic list of Architonic's most-clicked new hotels, restaurants, bars, and public spaces of 2021 prove design-lovers interest in travel hasn't waned over the past year.

Though not strictly an 'interior' Heatherwick Studio's Little Island Park rose to the top of the pile of 2021 hospitality spaces. Photo: Timothy Schenck

These dramatic interior renovations reveal the stunning changes the featured hospitality spaces made during their enforced closures, and our design-loving users can’t wait to visit.

1. Little Island Park (Public Space) by Heatherwick Studio

The undulating landscape of the pier-park partially hides the din of the city. Photo: Timothy Schenck

Topping them all off, 2021’s highest ranking interiors project is not an interior at all. Briefed with a new pier pavilion on the Hudson River, Heatherwick Studio instead reimagined what a pier was, and what it could be. Little Island Park is a unique green space with three performance venues, winding paths that expand the experience, and the ability to lose yourself, just for a moment, in the hectic city.

2. Doubletree by Hilton Rome Monti by THDP

Doubletree by Hilton Rome Monti's interior seems to breathe life through the hotel. Photo: Janos Grapow

Another hotel that transports its visitors to a different time as well as place: the ornate ironwork furnishings and light fittings of the Doubletree by Hilton hotel combine with weathered hues of natural and accented colours, luxurious fabrics, detailed art-deco tiling and oversized plant life to create an exotic yet sophisticated 1920’s feel.

3. Bun Turin by Masquespacio

Bun Turin restaurant is split into three distinct colour-coded zones. Photo: Gregory Abbate

After entering the restaurant’s central green zone to order, customers of Bun Burgers then have a choice between blue or pink dining areas. The swimming-pool-styled blue zone features tiled seating, wall-hung ladders, porthole lighting and a shimmering ceiling; while the pink features booths and tables at varying heights for those who prefer meals on dry land.

4. Weisses Kreuz by noa* network of architecture

The baroque style of the hotel includes a multifunctional 13-metre long brass table (top), and 48 rooms including the burgundy-clad Mozart suite (bottom). Photo: Alex Filz

The hotel’s 48 rooms – or chambers as the owners call them – are differentiated by various colour themes. The Mozart suite, for example – named after the illustrious wunderkind who was known to room there, is dripping in burgundy and gold. European history seems to bleed from the walls of the hotel, with a relentless yet charming baroque style.

5. MAD Bars House by YOD Group

MAD Bars House's WONA grill kitchen (top), DIDUH experimental cocktail bar (centre), and BUZZ bar (bottom), for classic cocktails. Photo: Yevhenii Avramenko

The interior stylings of the Mad Bars House literally work on multiple levels – five to be exact. With each floor serving increasing strengths of alcoholic beverage, each provides a different category of hospitality venue. Experiences include pub, restaurant, wine bar, nightclub, and cocktail bar as visitors rise higher and higher, if they can still climb the stairs.

This article is part of Architonic's Annual Review series, reliving our users' most-viewed projects of the past year, while looking ahead to the next.