Plans unveiled for St Paul’s Luxury Hotel & Apartments
4C Hotel Group, Redefine BDL Hotels and Dexter Moren Associates have unveiled latest designs for St. Paul’s Luxury Hotel & Apartments. The concept design and detailed planning consent for the hotel development was carried out by Bennetts Associates, with implementation undertaken by Dexter Moren.
Located on the north bank of the River Thames, this project sees the historic Queensbridge House site Southeast of St. Paul’s Cathedral redeveloped with a new 224-room hotel and nine luxury apartments. The project connects the area near St. Paul’s with the Queenhithe dock, the oldest in London, and completes the northern riverbank walkway between the Tower of London and Millennium Bridge as well as adding a connection to the Thames Path National Trail.
St. Paul’s Luxury Hotel & Apartments will replace an incongruent group of tired 1960s office buildings to become one new cohesive piece of architecture. Once complete, the development will open up views from the city towards the river.
Whilst respecting constraints imposed by St. Paul’s viewing heights in its form, the new building further anchors itself to this key city location through its façade design. Above a traditional Portland stone base, the upper floors combine more contemporary masonry with materials such as metal and glass. The lower levels of the seven-storey scheme house the hotel’s public spaces. Arriving guests enter into a vast glazed atrium space leading to a riverside bar and restaurant which opens onto the new public walkway affording spectacular views across the river towards Shakespeare’s Globe and South Bank. Guestrooms predominantly face to the east and west looking to the churches of St. Pauls, St. Mary Somerset and St. James Garlickhythe. Three of the nine riverside apartments will sit above the hotel bar on the waterfront, with the remainder in the adjoining block to the east.
