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The Shoreditch Hotel in London was designed by AQSO Arquitectos and was built in 2017. The building is mixed-use and includes a hotel, cinema, and retail portion.

The monolithic building is contemporarily designed to blend the two streets and look as though it is a flexible feature.
The architects were inspired to create a building that respects the pedestrian flow within the intersection of two landmark streets. They did this by designing towards the urban views while pulling back the building at ground level. The resulting shape emphasizes the sidewalk and building shape on the street side in which pedestrians and cyclists can move perpendicularly.

The facade of the Shoreditch Hotel responds to the site conditions and adjacent buildings seamlessly from regular, orthogonal openings to the twisted geometrical exterior. The building uses the parametric design to support the slight cantilever of the warped mass while morphing the urban fabric of London. The structural system of the facade is constructed along arches and straight lines to create the parametric design of the exterior layer. The openings follow the consistent pattern of the buildings in the back.

https://aqso.net/work/1703ahl-urban-resort-in-london
AQSO Architects