Rethink Hotels Architecture Competition, Jovoto Design Contest
Rethink Hotels Competition : Open Architecture Contest
Rethink Hotels Contest
10 Apr 2012
Rethink Hotels Architecture Competition
Open Architecture Contest, International
Title: Rethink hotels
Sponsor: Tablet Hotels
Categories: Awards/Grants, International
Type: Open
Registration Deadline: 29 May 2012
Submission Deadline: 30 May 2012
Open To: All
Entry Fee: Free
Awards: overall Prize Value up to $20,000
Jury
Laurent Vernhes (Co-founder & CEO, Tablet Hotels)
Mark Sainsbury (Co-owner of The Zetter Group, a Director of Draft House Holdings, the founder of The Sustainable Restaurant Association as well as a trustee for the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.)
Rob Wagemans (founder and creative director of concrete architectural associates)
matali crasset (Industrial designer, a graduate of the Ateliers – E.N.S.C.I. (Workshops – National Higher School of Industrial Design))
Shuwa Tei (Creative Director for Intentionallies / REALFLEET)
Brent Hoberman (Co-founder lastminute.com, founder mydeco.com)
Background
Tablet was founded in the year 2000 by Laurent Vernhes and Michael Davis, a pair of new-media veterans who were tired of predictable chain hotels and faceless hotel search engines. On the principle that today’s traveler needs fewer choices, not more, they set out to create a tightly curated list, showcasing only the hotels that matter — hotels with personality, hotels that obsess on the details, hotels where experience beats economy. That list, after a decade of evolution, makes up the selection of TabletHotels.com, the trusted source for extraordinary hotels around the world.
Objective
The natural next step, of course, is to open a hotel. Anyone with enough money can open a solid-gold luxury hotel. Tablet’s hotel would be up for a conceptual challenge, tackling what might be hospitality’s hardest problem: creating a hotel that brings people together — where experience is shared, friendships are born, business contacts are established, and real human connections are made, all under the hotel’s roof.
We are proposing an architectural challenge, but also an experiment in human psychology. While entrants need not confine their solutions to physical space alone — there are technological ways of making connections as well — the focal point should be the place (or places) where hotel guests and city residents are brought together.
Think beyond the typical lobby bar, restaurant or pool deck, and draw inspiration from your own travels to design a space with the potential to revolutionize the ordinary hotel experience.
Contact
Contact Person: Nathalie Sonne
Address: jovoto, Inc, 1220 Broadway, 9th floor, New York, New York 10010, USA
Email: nsonne@jovoto.com
Website: http://www.jovoto.com/projects/rethink-hotels/landing
Phone: 3477859367
Rethink Hotels Competition image / information from jovoto, Inc
Location: New York, NY, USA
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