The Grove Design Hotel designed by Laboratory of Architecture #3, The diversity and contrasts which are offered by the physical and psychological context of the building site provoked a certain conceptual objective which goes through every part of the exterior and interior design composition. The aim was to sustain a quantum quality of being here and there at the same time, holding the design at the degree when opposite meanings blend into a single matter.

Though the layout and the volumes of the Building were intentionally chopped, to achieve a human scale, it still has the large-scale elements like a dynamic shape of a portico or a monolithic surface on the facade of a tower which provides a certain feeling of monumentality.
Photography: Nakanimamasakhlisi The urban role of the architecture was to serve as a visual bridge or a geometric modulation from the neighboring group of high office buildings to the low rhythm of historical housing, standing on the other flank. The building is shaped also to integrate the group of cypress trees the architecture attempts to embrace and honor the vegetation by serving as a giant planter for them. Name of the hotel is derived from that small grove of trees. The building features a specially fabricated perforated fiber concrete curved panels on the facade.
Photography: Nakanimamasakhlisi
The interior of the rooms – is a fresh modernist surrounding, where most of the furniture and objects are fitted to the walls like in a yacht. I...