HOTEL QT
Fig. 1 – Hotel QT on a Thursday night.
Fig. 2 – Hotel QT is one of the Andre Balazs hotel group.
Fig. 3 – ‘On the QT’ magazine covers from the 1950s.
Fig. 4 – Times Square New York.
Fig. 5 – In 1961 Times Square gay bar, The Peppermint Lounge on W45th Street across the street from Hotel QT, became the epicenter of a new dance craze called the Twist.
Fig. 6 – W45th Street entrance. Photo credit: Nikolas Koenig
Fig. 7 – Parking garage across W45th Street through the tinted Hotel QT gym window. Photo credit: Heidi Werner.
Fig. 8 – Newsstand and check-in seen through W45th Street lobby window. Photo credit:
Fig. 9 – Hotel lobby. Photo credit:
Fig. 10 – Double-double bunkbed guest room.
Fig. 11 – Double D guestroom light fixture. Photo credit: Heid Werner.
Fig. 12 – Stair to the spa from the pool.
Fig. 13 – Pool changeroom.
Fig. 14 – Pool party.
Fig. 15 – Pool Bar. Photo credit: Masuika, The New York Times.
Fig. 16 – W45th Street entrance first floor plan with lobby, check-in, pool deck and bar.
Fig. 17 – Pool at 6:00AM.
Fig. 18 – Pool bar at 6:00PM.
Fig. 19 – Event at 11:00PM.
Figs. 20 and 21 – Sections showing day-to-night lighting.
Fig 22 – Day to night lighting.
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Fig 26- Sauna and steam room elevations
Fig. 27 – View from sauna interior to showers and steam room beyond. Photo credit: Nikolas Koenig.
Fig. x – Spa in daytime mood. Photo credit: Nikolas Koenig.
Fig. 16 – Hotel geneology.
LOCATION:
New York, USA
year:
2005
site:
63,100 sqf
program:
Hotel
systems and materials:
Concrete, steel, wood, cork, pink quartzite, glass
client:
Andre Balazs Properties
Project Team:
Lindy Roy with Mark Kroeckel, Adam Hayes, Bentley Brownfield, Rodolfo Diaz, Suzanne Gelert, Jonathan Jackson, Joon Ho Kim, Edward Lalonde, Filipa Tomaz and Heidi Werner
Architect of Record: Peter Himmelstein Architect PC
Lighting Design: L’Observatoire International
Related Projects:
Tahama Street Tower, Okavango Delta Spa, Alaska Rendezvous Heli-ski Lodge, Hybird by Questlove, Poolhouse
selected press:
The New York Times Style Magazine (April 3, 2005)
Conde Nast Traveler (November, 2004)
bob: International Magazine of Space Design (September, 2005)
Sleeper (Winter 2005)
Oculus (June, 2005)
DBZ (April, 2006)
references:
Ref. 1 - Alyssa M. Reviera and Andrew D. Huberman,'Neuroscience: A Chromatic Retinal Circuit Encodes Sunrise and Sunset for the Brain' (Current Biology 30, April 2020)