Ace Hotel's in-house creative team has completed a new hotel next to the New Museum in New York, featuring warm wood self-check-in booths, a diner-style restaurant and compact bedrooms designed like "Japanese bento boxes".
Atelier Ace's Sister City hotel is located next to the contemporary museum in Manhattan's bustling Bowery neighbourhood.

Four floors were added to an 10-storey, brickwork building at 225 Bowery to create the 200-room hotel, complete with a rooftop bar and a ground floor restaurant. The extension comprises white brick and glass blocks to complement the existing structure.
Sister City has two entrances: one is from Bowery and leads to a slender dining patio, and the restaurant. The other entrance is located off Rivington Street down Freeman's alley, and leads to a private garden intended as a transition from the busy city into the hotel.
Inside, Atelier Ace ? which is also behind properties in the Ace Hotel chain ? aimed to create spaces that would continue to offer guests a respite from the busy city.
Decor is influenced by the "functional perfection of Finnish saunas", the hotel's decor features a suite of warm woods.
On the ground level, warm honey birch forms doors, curved archways and slatted screens that divvy up the lobby area, a library and the restaurant called Floret. Custom-built wood also forms a set of desks, where guests can check themselves in and collect room keys.

Furniture throughout the floor is eclectic, from mid-...