Interior architecture and design practice Studio Mica was commissioned to create the Nobu Hotel Shoreditch, a new steel, glass and concrete building designed by Ron Arad Associates.
The 9,000 msq contemporary hotel design consists of 133 guest rooms, 15 suites, reception lounge and tea room, terraced garden, conference facilities, spa and gym.
As locally based designers, Studio Mica’s team brought to the project an inside perspective of the community’s rare creativity, industrial heritage, cutting-edge culture and hospitality scene. The result is an intuitive design response that uniquely combines the spirit of the East End with subtle Japanese influences to fulfil the brief to create a ‘European Nobu’.
The interior design embraces Arad's original architectural vision by exposing the structural concrete to become intrinsic, sculptural highlights of the interiors. Local artist Sichi was commissioned to create a series of unique paintings that were realised in each of the guest rooms as oversized sliding window screens whose movement gently animates the façade at night revealing glimpses of the guest rooms’ ‘floating’ globe lights.
Studio Mica’s vision was to create spaces that are responsive to the modern traveller’s needs and alter in ambience through day to night. A sophisticated simplicity and refined elegance is the resulting gesture of hospitality with universal appeal, elements that are intrinsic to Nobu’s highly sought after quality and expertise.