Riverbank Park Plaza London Hotel, Albert Embankment Accommodation Building Images
Riverbank Park Plaza London Architecture
London Albert Embankment Accommodation Building design by RHWL Architects, England, UK
5 Sep 2006
Location: Albert Embankment, London SE1, United Kingdom
Gear Construction Management Ltd
Cost: £60m
Date built: April 2005
Photographs by Hufton + Crow
Riverbank Park Plaza photo by Hufton & Crow, received from RHWL Architects 5 Sep 2006
Riverbank Park Plaza Hotel
A twelve storey, 450-room hotel in a prominent location on London’s Albert Embankment, opposite Tate Britain and Millbank Tower. It was completed in the summer of 2005 and at the time it was the largest new-build hotel project in the capital.
In addition to the acoustically secure bedrooms and associated bar and restaurant, the building has two large basement level banquet halls, each accommodating more than 1,500 people. The structure is designed to take a further five floors of ‘sky-suites’, designed to be added at a future date.
photo : Hufton & Crow
The hotel rooms are made acoustically secure by a complex of three glazing units: high-specification double glazing is fitted directly to the rooms, which are separated from the single-glazed façade by steel gantries. This arrangement helps provide the building with a façade of considerable depth and texture, and also allows access for cleaning and maintenance.
Above the hotel entrance and forming part of the building’s principal façade — facing the Thames — a glass box sits within the large void cut into the main volume of the structure. It houses the main bar and restaurant, and cantilevers in the direction of the street, allowing cars to pass underneath and drop off visitors at the hotel lobby.
photo : Hufton & Crow
Riverbank Park Plaza Albert Embankment – Building Information
Construction time: 30 months
Structural engineer: Israel David, and NRM Consultants
M&E engineer: Rybka Battle
Fire engineer: Warrington Fire
Acoustics: Ian Sharland Ltd
Traffic consultant: Arup Transport
Quantity surveyor: Gear Construction Management Ltd
Planning consultant: Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners
Main contractor: Gear Construction Management Ltd
Accommodation photos by Hufton & Crow, received from RHWL Architects 5 Sep 2006
photos by Hufton & Crow, received from RHWL Architects 5 Sep 2006
Location: Albert Embankment, London, SE1, England, UK
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