Chenot Palace Weggis, Health Wellness Hotel, Lucerne Building, Swiss Architecture Images, Design News
Chenot Palace Weggis Hotel near Lucerne
25 Aug 2020
Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel
Design: Davide Macullo Architects
Location: Weggis, Canton Lucerne, Switzerland

The true beauty of a built place is proportional to the positive influence it has on people. When we wonder why we feel so good in a place, so ?at home?, it is because its dimensions, proportions and tensions have been designed for us. Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel, located in one of the most beautiful and historic places in Switzerland, overlooking Lake Lucerne, framed by the Alps, is designed for human well-being. What the hotel offers is continuous sense of feeling good, being at ease. It is this sense we give to our architecture by understanding it as a link between the DNA of a place and its future. The design is by Davide Macullo Architects.
Constructed between Autumn 2018 and Spring 2020, this flagship project extends over 20?000 sqm and includes the addition of a new timber guest room block, a state-of-the-art medical spa and wellness area and the renovation of existing hotel buildings.

The view of the charming turn-of-the-century hotel from the lake remains unchanged from before the new development; the new guest room building has been set back above the entrance and its volumes staggered in such a way that it is not ever fully visible. The spa volume is covered with gardens a...