Willow Street Hotel
Rather than an annexe simply containing more bedrooms, our proposed extension to the existing Hoxton Hotel adjacent to this site is an entirely new offer, providing new facilities including separate reception, lounge and bar, restaurant and a number of meeting/conference rooms.

The building is proposed to be constructed from prefabricated boxes in cross-laminated timber. This form of construction has several benefits in terms of ease and speed of construction and embodied energy. The cellular nature of the hotel lends itself to this kind of construction, with rooms being able to be pre-finished internally and the boxes simply stacked to form the main structure.

The roof of the building is proposed as a biodiversity roof, which cascades down the eastern facade as green walls to link up to a new park created at this end. The proposal seeks to establish this as an urban space, levelling and re-landscaping it and opening it up to the hotel to the west.

It is the ambition of the owners that this hotel should be a flagship project as a low-carbon hotel with a grey water harvesting system and centralised combined heating and power plant augmenting the large green roof and the low-carbon construction.