Morpheus won the Award for ‘Best Asia Pacific Hotel Over 200 Rooms’ at the International Hotel & Property Awards 2020, voted by industry professionals as well as design et al readers, clients and customers.
Morpheus was designed as a vertical extrusion of the site’s existing abandoned foundations for a condominium tower that did not progress; using this rectangular footprint to define a 40-storey building of two internal vertical circulation cores at podium and roof levels where the hotel’s many guest amenities were required.
Three horizontal vortices generate the voids through the central atrium and define the hotel’s spectacular interior public spaces. In-between these voids, a series of bridges create unique spaces for the restaurants, bars & lounges by renowned chefs.
Working with BuroHappold Engineering, Zaha Hadid Architects designed the building’s structure to optimise the hotel’s interiors. The world’s first free-form high-rise exoskeleton, its rich pattern of structural members at lower levels progresses upwards to a less dense grid of lighter members at its summit.
In 2018, TIME Magazine listed Morpheus Hotel as one of the World’s Greatest Places based on key factors including quality, originality, innovation, sustainability and influence. Morpheus was also voted ArchDaily’s Building of the Year’ (BOTY) in the hospitality category while Popular Science Magazine included the hotel in their list ‘Best of What New’.
Last year, Morpheus was named a winner of National Geographic Magazine’s ‘Big Sleep Awards’ and also received the Prix Versailles for Central and Northeast Asia.
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
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https://www.zaha-hadid.com/2020/09/28/morpheus-wins-international-hotel-property-award/
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