A decade since its opening in October 2008, Park Hyatt Beijing celebrates it 10-year anniversary with a new look.
With the help of LTW Designworks, the award-winning Singapore-based design studio, the luxury hotel has undergone renovations incorporating touches of traditional Beijing architecture while taking into consideration its location in the heart of the business district.
Located in Beijing Yingtai Centre – Chang’an Avenue's tallest skyscraper – on Jianguomenwai Main Street, a major road in the capital, Park Hyatt Beijing also hovers near Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.
Preserving the original layout, LTW Designworks focused on updating the look of the luxury hotel’s 246 rooms, including 25 suites, as well as the various dining spaces and ballroom areas.
The redesign draws inspiration from the siheyuan, a traditional Chinese residence typically found in Beijing and rural Shanxi, where the living structures are built around a courtyard, considered the heart of the home.
Symbolic of Beijing architecture, the siheyuan inspired many of the design elements brought to life in the Park Hyatt’s makeover.
Symmetrical lines and compositions dominate the interiors. An austere palette of grey and brown feature in the public areas, such as the dining and pre-function spaces, the latter punctuated by a carpet with fluid strokes inspired by koi fishes, and wall features depicting tree branches.
The rooms, meanwhile, feature light palettes of olive, teal and wood, while specialty suites and the executive dining and living areas come with bolder hues of coral, emerald, blue-grey and bronze-wood. Artworks are displayed on the walls, and Chinese teaware feature in every room.
Park Hyatt Beijing being among their most recent projects, LTW Designworks is also known for having worked on other luxury hospitality properties, such as the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, the Jumeirah Hotel in Nanjing, the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong, as well as Grand Hyatt Hotels worldwide.
Photography courtesy of LTW Designworks
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