Hotel Puerta America
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This hotel is a real Babylon of design styles: one of the most outlandish projects of this sort in many years. The design of its twelve floors, restaurant, bar and the rest of the premises was created by 19 of the world's most famous designers, the likes of Ron Arad, Zaha Hadid, John Pawson, Marc Newson, David Chipperfield, Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel etc. The designers were given complete creative freedom (and financial as well: the whole project cost more than EUR 75 million). The most extravagant are the 7th (Ron Arad) and the 1st (Zaha Hadid) floors. The passage of the Ron Arad floor is reminiscent of a hospital in a Hollywood sci-fi movie. Each room is an oval within an oval: bedroom, bathroom, it's all there: no doors, no partition walls or any other kind of restrictions. Just walk around the room and look for whatever you need at the moment: the egg-shaped bed, the screen instead of a TV set, the bath. Three colours dominate the design: white (walls in one part of the room), black (the bed) and red (the bathroom). Nothing is concealed, nothing is separated from the rest of the room: even the relatively isolated loo has a transparent door.
The room by Zaha Hadid dazzles with its futuristic computer-age whiteness (the alternative is black). Sinuous lines, no visible junctures: the whole place (the living room and bathroom walls, the chair, the table, the bed - everything) feels as if it had been moulded from the same material in slightly uneven curves and then frozen like ice. The bath reminds of a swimming pool inside a white cave; you can't even tell where it ends at first glance. You open your eyes in the morning and see the city through the white blinds: it feels a bit like waking up on a stage or having spent the night at a museum of design. In any case, you will soon find the comfort of the chair against the curve of your back or the view through the window completely irrelevant. The only downside of the whole adventure of staying at Puerta América is the fact that it is much closer to the airport than to the city centre. You will need a taxi.
Hotel Puerta América, Avenida de América 41
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