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The Prestige Hotel

Ministry of Design Pte Ltd

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Client
Public Packages Holdings Berhad
Floor area
8570.00 ㎡
Completion
2019

“A Touch of Magic in a Tropical, Victorian Eden” The Prestige Hotel is set in Georgetown’s UNESCO World Heritage site, amongst 19th-century English colonial buildings, and features 162 rooms, restaurant, rooftop infinity pool, events pavilion, & a vibrant Victorian dining/retail arcade. To differentiate itself from 2 common approaches by other hotels, our design neither mimics heritage nor is purely modern. Conceptually grounding the design in “Transposed Heritage”, i.e. to run with the old and create something fresh yet familiar, we developed its narrative beyond this to include whimsical elements inspired by visual illusion. The lobby mullions are crafted from champagne-bronze-tinted metal for a contemporised Victorian aesthetic. The restaurant is a modernised Victorian conservatory with a simplified wrought-metal lattice pattern. Lift lobbies feature a champagne-bronze-tinted window-portal framing lush planting, etched with Victorian grille-like patterning. In the lobby, as a cheeky reference to magical illusion, guests are invited to navigate a marble floor maze with brass trimmings. The reception is made of concave mirrored stainless steel, creating a distorted reflection seemingly balanced on chrome spheres. In the rooms, the Shower & Wardrobe Enclosure crafted with champagne-bronze-tinted metal & glass takes aesthetic cues from Houdini’s escape box. Other visual illusions include seemingly levitating beds, & hidden doors that reveal toilet cubicles & pantries.