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- The big design moves
- 10 Carrington Street office tower and lobby
- “I’ve wanted to be an architect since I was four years old.”
- “I’m learning that architectural designs will need to work in the real world.”
- The town centre in five years’ time: Community [1/3]
- Make–ReMake
- Embodied carbon of transportation
- From listed buildings to 21st-century schools [2/2]
- Drawing Sydney
- Inspired by “art built” – an interview with Marc Brousse
- Embodied carbon in curtain walls
- Reducing embodied carbon isn’t all about materials
- Hospitality: The Non-Issues
- “Tall buildings mesmerise me.”
- Make models: metal etching
- “I’m the first one in my family pursuing architecture.”
- “What can you see behind this building?” – an interview with Chenglin(Able) Jin
- My next getaway
- The town centre in five years’ time: Wellbeing [2/3]
- Make models: 80 Charlotte Street
- Living Architecture: Urban Forest
- “I want to build things that will explore new depths of the sea.”
- Upfront carbon: how good is good enough?
- The town centre in five years’ time: For everyone [3/3]
- Winner of The Architecture Drawing Prize 2020 – an interview with Clement Laurencio
- Restoring Hornsey Town Hall’s clocks
- A Proposed Hierarchy for Embodied Carbon Reduction in Facades
- From listed buildings to 21st-century schools [1/2]
- Comparing embodied carbon in facade systems
- Building Natural Connections with Energy, People, Buildings
- Bridging the gap
- Designing in the wake of coronavirus
- University tech
- Living employment
- Atlas – Tech City statement
- Four ways residential design might change after COVID-19
- Coal Drops Yard – creating a new retail destination
- Post COVID-19 – What’s next for higher education design?
- Inspiring Girls
- Stephen Wiltshire
- The future of retail and workplace
- Make models: The Cube
- International Women’s Day 2020
- Architectural Drawing: States of Becoming
- One Make
- Interview with Sarah O’Hara
- Bringing the brand back to life
- Post-COVID
- The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition reviewed
- Jack Sallabank interviews Ibrahim Ibrahim, Managing Director of Portland Design
- ‘Architecture in the frame’ – London Art Fair
- A Hong Kong perspective on a post COVID-19 society
- Chadstone Link: Making new connections
- Improving social ties in our cities
- Design narratives and community bonds
- Education Q&A
- Behind the scenes at the 2019 World Architecture Festival
- Drawing on the culture that makes the buildings
- Future modelmakers 2020
- The City is Yours
- After coronavirus, how can we accelerate change in workplace design to improve connection and wellbeing?
- Ask the Makers
- The Madison model by Theodore Polwarth
- Q&A with our student modelmakers: Theodore Polwarth
- The Teaching and Learning Building model by James Picot
- Q&A with our student modelmakers: James Picot
- Pablo Bronstein
- The Big Data Institute model by Finlay Whitfield
- Q&A with our student modelmakers: Finlay Whitfield
- Hospitality: Business as usual, or is it?
- Encouraging spaces of conviviality
- The importance and passion of heritage in the built environment
- No show, so what next?
- Choosing architectural modelmaking
- Make Roundtable
- Exchange Issue No. 3 Education and Research – Foreword
- State of the market – Hong Kong
- World Heritage Day 2020
- Make models: Agora Budapest
- Knowledge Exchange and Social Connection
- Interview with Julian Robinson
- Interview with Peter McGeorge
- Drawing in Architecture
- Interview with Dr Julie Wells
- Photo Essay
- Interview with Siu-Man Fung
- The university of the future
- Campus and the City
- Draw in order to see
- Universities reshaping London
- Interview with Hong Kong Design Institute’s Joseph Wong
- Project delivery at 80 Charlotte Street
- Students speak
- Our commitment to sustainable design
- Asta House – Local living in Fitzrovia
- The next generation of retail brands
- Interview with Stephen Talboys
- Make models: Chadstone Link
- Transparency and a sense of investment
- Langlands and Bell – Observing and Observed
- Wellbeing in the university landscape
- Telling Stories: The power of drawing to change our cities
- Musings on The Architecture Drawing Prize 2020
- What role will hotels play in our society after COVID?
- Sketchbooks: draw like nobody’s watching
- Honest, in-depth learning
- Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin
- Make models: 20 Ropemaker Street, part 2
- The value of the drawing
- The hand does not draw superfluous things
- Balance
- Interview with Lendlease’s Natalie Slessor
- Prized hand-drawings return a building to an organically conceived whole
- Draw to Make
- Interview with Brookfield Properties’ Stuart Harman
- Drawing details – technical and poetic
- Betts Project
- Interview with Frasers Property Australia’s Joanna Russell
- Music and the workplace
- Living with loneliness
- Combating loneliness in the built environment
- Wellbeing and the workplace
- Interview with Brookfield Properties’ Peter Clarke
- An update from Sydney
- Retail innovation beyond the shop door: Lessons from the USA (part 1)
- Make Roundtable
- Make models: 20 Ropemaker Street, part 3
- Sydney born and razed
- Interview with Argent’s Nick Searl
- Retail innovation beyond the shop door: Lessons from the USA (part 2)
- Connecting people and places
- Make models: 20 Ropemaker Street, part 1
- Retail innovation beyond the shop door: Lessons from the USA (part 3)
- Interview with Vicinity Centres’ Rachele Godridge
- The smart workplace
- Architecture and Creativity
- Interview with General Projects’ Jacob Loftus
- Interview with Chinachem’s Donald Choi
- High-density living in Hong Kong
- Make’s past, present and future
- Make manifesto
- The Architecture Drawing Prize – Not just another competition
- Leaving a mark
- Community connections
- My time with the BCO
- The call of the wild
- Long live the office
- The art of an art historian
- Mary, queen of hotels
- Make models: Portsoken Pavilion
- The Make Charter
- Why Brexit will see a glass half-full emptied
- Make models: LSQ London
- Disappearing Here – On perspective and other kinds of space
- Drawing and thinking
- Drawing to an end?
- Making shops exciting again: Lessons from the Nordics (part 1)
- Make models: Grosvenor Waterside
- Drawing architecture
- The Hollow Man: poetry of drawing
- Above and beyond
- Interview with Lendlease’s Kevin Chapman
- Making shops exciting again: Lessons from the Nordics (part 2)
- Plein air in the digital age
- A “Plan in Impossible Perspective”
- Art Editor’s picks
- Making shops exciting again: Lessons from the Nordics (part 3)
- The future of bespoke HQs
- Make models: The Luna
- World-class architecture
- The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition review
- The future is bright but not the same
- Employee ownership
- The tools of drawing
- Trecento re-enactment
- Lessons on future office design from Asia Pacific
- The human office
- How drawing made architecture
- Advocating sustainable facade design
- Make models: FC Barcelona’s Nou Palau Blaugrana
- Drawing as an architect’s tool
- Are you VReady?
- Cycle design for the workplace
- The Architecture Drawing Prize
- Make models: an urban rail station
- Reporting from Berlin
- City-making and Sadiq
- Hand-drawing, the digital (and the archive)
- Ken Shuttleworth on drawing
- The green tiger
- Stefan Davidovici – green Mars architect
- When drawing becomes architecture
- Make models: Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
- The role of the concept sketch
- Make calls for a cultural shift in industry’s approach to fire safety
- 2036: A floor space odyssey
- Harold on tour
- London refocused
- Hotels by Make
- Full court press
- Digital Danube
- Don’t take a pop at POPS
- The future of architecture – Matthew Bugg
- The future of architecture – Jet Chu
- The future of architecture – Robert Lunn
- The future of architecture – David Patterson
- The future of architecture – Rebecca Woffenden
- The future of architecture – Katy Ghahremani
- Safer streets for all
- The importance of post-occupancy evaluation for our future built environment
- Put a lid on it
- Designing for a liveable city
- The future of architecture – Bill Webb
- Bricks – not just for house builders
- Designing in the City of Westminster
- Rolled gold
- How to make a fine suit
- Responsible sourcing starts with design
- Is off-site manufacture the answer?
- Developing a design for the facade of 7-10 Hanover Square
- Curious Sir Christopher Wren
- Responsible resourcing should be an integral part of every project
- The socio-economic value of people-focused cities

Katy is based in our London studio, and has significant experience in the hotel sector on both the architecture and interior design front. She’s often called upon to help clients explore and develop their brand philosophy and identity.
The lead architect on our new mixed use development at Hornsey Town Hall discusses how the hospitality sector is evolving to connect guests with the local community.
Great hospitality over the centuries has been about showing care and attention to visitors and strangers, people who are from outside the immediate community. Moving to the present day, more and more hoteliers are trying to connect their guests with the local community. Examples of this range from resorts where guests can learn crafts from local artisans to urban hotels that encourage locals to use their lobbies as workspace.
Our project for Far East Consortium at North London’s Hornsey Town Hall is doing just this, facilitating the interaction of hotel guests with the separate but overlapping local communities of Crouch End, including parents, retirees and freelance workers. A new hotel is only a part of our refurbishment of this listed art deco building; the scheme also includes new co-working and community spaces across the building, plus an arts centre. The lobby is designed to be a shared space where users of these various facilities can mingle, chat, work or wait. The blurring of lines between private and public is something we’re seeing more and more of across all sectors, but nowhere more so than in hotel lobbies.
Make recently hosted events in London and Hong Kong to develop these ideas, inviting major hotel brands like Dorsett, Swire Hotels, Rosewood, Shangri-La, Marriott and more. The theme for the discussion was ‘urban resorts’, and one of the main topics that emerged at both events was the role of the urban hotel to connect its guests with the city and the community – to enable a real sense of communion with the area. There are of course many ‘cities’ within one physical city, so the challenge for the hotelier is to know which ‘city’ their guest wants to experience. One of the more controversial ideas discussed was whether there’s a physical need for a hotel building or whether the ‘hotel’ is actually a series of experiences across a geographical place.
As more and more hoteliers deliver this integration with community, will we see a rise in places for guests to retreat, both in urban hotels and more traditional resorts?
Wellbeing is a word thrown around in all sectors, but surely in hospitality it should be at the heart of the experience. In designing hotels, we need to consider the potential of not only public areas (lobbies, lounges etc) but also semi-public spaces – places that are reserved for guests and designed to enhance their wellbeing, both physical and mental. These could be gardens that provide a retreat into nature, quiet rooms for working or reading, spaces with enhanced air quality.
These semi-public areas could also be learning spaces – for talks and discussions, yoga or meditation classes, mentoring or networking sessions. This would enable guests to create their own community within the hotel. Private members’ clubs such as Soho House are already facilitating the sorts of events where members learn from and listen to each other. Building on this, creating the right blend of guests may become part of the hotelier’s remit. The Nobu Ryokan in Malibu already does this; bookings at this exclusive hotel can only be made by contacting the general manager, who vets potential guests not by their fame or wealth but by whether they will aid the hotel’s ethos of creating a retreat of pure tranquillity.
Looking to the future, hospitality will be about more than just looking after guests and offering a sense of place and integration with the local community; it will also be about creating a guest community within the hotel. Over the last few decades, hotels have transformed from safe ‘islands’ within a city to places that are completely integrated into the urban landscape. The challenge for us as architects and designers will be ensuring that the hotel design is both open and closed at the same time. We’ll need to provide a variety of spaces, from completely public areas open to the local community to semi-public areas reserved for the guest community and fully private guestrooms. It will be interesting to see how this shift continues over the coming decades, with hotels increasingly both part of and apart from the city.
Article extracted from Make Annual 15.