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Can Bordoy

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JURY VOTES
Hotel
5.78
6.81
6.57
5.77
6.23
Agata Pilip
Agata Pilip Senior professional brand creative retail store design at Nike
An elegant boutique hotel, classy a...
6
7
6
6
6.25
Valerie Roosma
Valerie Roosma Interior Designer at -
Beautifully eclectic design, welcom...
5
6
8
5
6
XIN LIN
XIN LIN Design Director at OPPO
6
7
7
6
6.5
Zaiba Mian
Zaiba Mian Professor at Humber College
An inviting hotel which quite succe...
6
7
7
6
6.5
Serhii Makhno
Serhii Makhno Founder at Sergey Makhno Architects
5
6
5
6
5.5
Jonghwan Baek
Jonghwan Baek Founder and Director in Chief at WGNB
6
7
6
6
6.25
Paul West
Paul West Strategy Director at Dalziel & Pow
5
6
6
5
5.5
Otto Ng
Otto Ng Design Director at LAAB Architects
6
7
7
6
6.5
Emma Wynn
Emma Wynn Director at Brinkworth
A well considered balance between t...
7
7
7
8
7.25
Luis F Rueda
Luis F Rueda Creative Director at LFR_D
Some of the ideas in this project a...
4
6
5
5
5
Paul Bishop
Paul Bishop Owner & Founder at Bishop Design
5
7
5
5
5.5
Michael Long
Michael Long Director at _novospace
7
7
8
5
6.75
Michelle Wilkie
Michelle Wilkie Design Director at tp bennett
A lovely concept, and well executed...
7
8
8
6
7.25
Falco Webbink
Falco Webbink Head of Design at Wink
5.95
7.31
7.02
5.81
6.52
Designer
Client
Mikael Hall
Floor area
2500 ㎡
Completion
2019
Architects and interior designers
Project management and site supervision together with OHLAB
Jorge Ramón, Luis Rivas and Isabel Sánchez with Jaume Miralles
Structure engineer
MEP engineering
Ingenio consultores
Master gardener
Salva Cañís
Archeologist
Elvira González
Commisioned art work
Pedro Oliver
Graphic design

Can Bordoy is a small hotel with a magnificent garden located in the center of Palma de Mallorca. It is a complete renovation of an abandoned building that had been intervened throughout its more than 500 years of history. The program is intended to evoke the experience of visiting a house more than a hotel. Therefore, rather than being at a hotel reception, clients meet at the entrance hall of the house, instead of a restaurant we find a residential dining room, rooms and living rooms are like those you would find in an old house, etc. Inspired by Kintsugi - traditional Japanese technique of repairing broken antique porcelain with gold dust that does not hide the fracture- the project carefully preserves the romantic and decadent atmosphere found in the building and is deliberately contrasted with interventions and elements from different epochs. The proposal respects the existing centenary architectural crossbreeding, maintaining the traces of the past and avoiding a false recovery of a glorious past that the house never had. A series of architectural strategies were designed and developed throughout the building as a collection of theatrical and distinctive contemporary interventions in dialogue with the existing building. The eclecticism of the architecture is reflected in the furniture with pieces from very different eras and origins that coexist with contemporary furniture as a collection of beds and bars designed by OHLAB specifically for Can Bordoy.