Hotel L’Ermitage
Architects
Indrek Allmann
Architectural Design Office PLUSS
Location
Toompuiestee 19, Tallinn, Estonia
Size
4 382,8 m2
Status
Completed in 2004
Photos
Kaido Haagen, Raido Vint, Arne Maasik
Typology
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The hotel occupies a lot between two historic buildings, conforming to its neighbours in height and volume but speaking a strikingly different language of forms. The building’s main eye-catching elements are its main entrance – set in a broken, “caved in” corner – and the overall vertical rhythm of the hotel’s windows and patinated copper cladding. The architect claims that inspiration was drawn, in a highly abstract manner, from the compilation of short films “Animatrix”: mainly, the idea that reality might be simulated. This is reflected in some optical distortions on the facade as well as in the general idea of a hotel as a dreamscape. In contrast with the building’s bold, solid main outer front, the side facing the courtyard is unexpectedly colourful. Inside, The very thin ceilings housing a built-in heating system was an innovation not used before in the Baltics.
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