Local studio PGM Arquitectura has completed a series of garden suites on top of the podium of the St Regis hotel skyscraper in Mexico City, originally designed by Argentine-American architect César Pelli.
Hotel chain St Regis brought on PGM Arquitectura to refresh the interiors of the skyscraper in Reforma, one of the city's central business districts. The studio had previously carried out designs for the hotel's restaurant.
PGM Arquitectura has completed terrace suites on a César Pelli-designed hotel
The 150-metre-tall César Pelli-designed skyscraper was completed in 2008 but the team at St Regis found that its interiors had become dated. The hotel wanted to update them to keep pace with the growing tourist industry in the city.
The skyscraper has a fourth-floor podium, after which the glass-clad spiral structure steps back and continues its climb toward the sky. The fourth floor now houses a large suite and several smaller ones with jacuzzis
PGM Arquitectura founder Patricio García Muriel told Dezeen that this was the best place to demonstrate the potential of the hotel's interiors, which the studio plans to completely revamp in the next few years.
"There was a rooftop on the fourth floor, which was horrible," he said. "Those rooms on the fourth floor were the worst in the hotel."
Steel pergolas provide shade
The studio transformed the eight suites on that level, turning the rooftop into garden terraces for guests.
The largest suite, the two-bedroo...