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Discover A Grand Budapest Hotel Imbued With Modern Ambience

2024 Best of Year Winner for Large Hotel Transformation

The 216-key Dorothea Hotel in Budapest, Hungary, spans three adjacent buildings of varying dates and styles—1873 Neo-Renaissance, 1913 Art Nouveau, and 1937 Modernist. The project team restored the historic facades and also created a unified 355,000-square-foot interior that harmoniously blends heritage and modern elements, including a new glass-enclosed penthouse floor. The public spaces in the oldest building exemplify Lissoni Casal Ribeiro’s approach, preserving the grandeur of the volumes while imbuing them with a distinctly 21st-century and, at times, ironic ambience. This is achieved through witty touches like juxtaposing the entry’s monumental Doric columns with a series of contemporary photographic portraits by Zoltán Tombor that playfully reinterpret traditional styles and customs.


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PROJECT TEAM: PIERO LISSONI; MIGUEL CASAL RIBEIRO; MATTIA SUSANI; RICARDO HERNANDEZ; FRANCESCO DE MATTEIS; FRANCESCO SCHIAVARIELLO; TANIA ZANEBONI; RODRIGO TELLEZ ACOSTA; ROBERTO BERTICELLI; GRETA ANDREONI; ALEJANDRA CORREDOR; RICCARDO ACCETTA; ILIA D’EMILIO; MARCO GOTTARDI; DAVID POULIOT; ALESSANDRO MASSI MAURI; ALBERTO MASSI MAURI; ALESSANDRO GRASSO; MATTEO CANDIANI; LORENZO VOLPATO.

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