Neri&Hu tops Alila Bangsar hotel in Kuala Lumpur with "urban oasis"
Chinese design studio Neri&Hu has topped a tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with a hotel arranged around a rooftop pool.
The 143-room Alila Bangsar hotel occupies the top eight floors of the 42-storey skyscraper located between the city's Brickfields and Bangsar neighbourhoods.
Neri&Hu has completed the architecture and interiors of the hotel, which has been designed to be an "urban oasis".
Trees have been planted throughout the ground-floor entrance lobby and the public upper stories.
"Upon entering, the concept of an 'urban oasis' is immediately present through the lush tree plantings throughout the interiors," explained Neri&Hu.
"Arriving at the upper lobby on level 42 the guest is welcomed into a double height space, a lantern open to the surrounding city which allows the maximum natural light."
The hotel is arranged with five floors of bedrooms topped with five stories of public areas.
All of the minimal, but plant-filled, public areas are intersected by white concrete columns and beams that are arranged in a square grid.
On the building's exterior this grid continues in black, visually differentiating the hotel from the apartments below it.
"A rigid structural grid defines the project from outside to inside, signalling its presence on the facade, while acting as a framework within which each function of the hotel is contained," said the studio.
The white concrete grid surrounds the pool, which is the heart o...
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