AvroKO creates Eaton hotel in Kowloon with "retro nostalgia for old Hong Kong"
New York studio AvroKO has overhauled a hotel in Hong Kong's Kowloon area, opening up its core to form a triple-height atrium and restaurant space, and refreshing guest facilities.
Eaton HK is the second hotel to open under the Eaton moniker, following the first in Washington DC earlier this year.
The concept for the chain includes merging public and private spaces, and incorporating a co-working space and membership club into the hotel. In Hong Kong, facilities also include an art museum, a cinema, a radio station, a bar and numerous eateries, in addition to guest rooms, a gym and rooftop pool.
First built in the 1970s, the towering structure features meandering corridors and subterranean levels. Before Eaton HK took over the property, the hotel was popular with Mainland Chinese tourists for its affordability, and also served as a sort of shopping mall.
AvroKO overhauled the project by working with the existing building, to complete the hotel in just two years. Lead designer Phillip Pond worked closely with the hotel's founder, Katherine Lo, who acquired the building from her father when he asked her to reimagine Eaton.
"[The building] has this reputation of being an old, tired workhorse, and referenced as 'that old thing'," said Pond of the existing hotel.
A notable feature of the redesign is a new atrium with a vast below-grade restaurant, The Astor, with pops of orange, mustard and dark blue. Here are eight live cooking stations, ...
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