Mespil Hotel

Darmody Architecture delivered a new entrance to the Mespil Hotel to give a sense of arrival and gravitas commensurate with the Mespil Hotel experience, ensuring a visual portal to the hotel with appropriate branding. The structure now presents a welcoming feature aligned with the statue of the hotel, delivering an entrance which celebrates the romance of the hotel experience. As the scale of the existing building demanded a strong visual element a continuous curved canopy was generated with columns of bronze, and backlight onyx stone framing the doorways. A back element was softly light with star burst lights to the soffi­t and further articulated with a framed bronze ceiling lattice. Its final composition robustly rests to the north elevation creating the lasting threshold to the Mespil Hotel which it so desperately desired.