The Marriott Hotel Brisbane has submitted a DA to expand the existing hotel.

The new extension will include a new podium and signage and an extention to the restaurant. 1972m2 will be added to the overall hotel.

DA: A003064950

Hotel Owner: Commonwealth Properties Hotel Fund

Looks pretty good. Just shows that the Brisbane hotel market is crying out for more hotels.

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Nice, looks pretty good, as long as they can be successful in getting it to blend into the existing art deco facade.

We need Empire Square (Westin) more than ever, shame we are left with the grocon scraps.

Hmmm...not sold on the extension to the tower, especially the view from the CBD looking towards the Valley (renders 2 and 4). It looks odd against the existing part of the building. The podium extension fits in much better.

That said, it may turn out to be a grower though, and might start to grow on me...

It's a much needed, very welcome extension though. We badly need more mid to high end hotel rooms.

Mmmm, don't know that I like it. Some angles make it look like a tacky add on and others don't look too bad...

Too lazy to search the DA number but how many new rooms will there be? Maybe around 30??

Mmmm, don't know that I like it. Some angles make it look like a tacky add on and others don't look too bad...

Yeah, that's kinda how I'm feeling about it too. Renders 1 and 3 look great, renders 2 and 4 not so much IMO.

I would have thought it would be a better outcome to team up with a developer and relocate the Marriott elsewhere. It seems to be a hell of a large cost for a slightly larger restaurant and 23 extra rooms, or even to help get the new Vision project off the ground.

Either that or a Marriott Boutique hotel in something like the Family services building on the corner of Elizabeth and George Streets.

doesn't seem to add much value to the site.

looks alright from some angles in the renders, but i wonder about the finished product.

Would of been far better as a right angled extension and wrapped 2 sides of the building.

I don't like it.

As some others have said, I'm not sure I like this extension. In the sense of both looks and value add. It looks a bit too much like an afterthought then something that is properly integrated, but it may grow on me.

For what it adds, I'm surprised it's worth the cost. However we desperately need more hotel space so anything is good.

The extension while costly will probably raise the reputation of the marriot however

Mmm - well thats one salmon coloured wall gone. I don't mind it.

Mmm - well thats one salmon coloured wall gone. I don't mind it.

:lol: so true. i agree. the more we can remove that blight of an era where salmon coloured buildings were seemingly popping up on every corner, the better.

Heres a little comparison pic I made. I think it looks pretty good, although I too am suprised that its feasible. A fairly complex project, for such a small amount of extra floor space. Would that be an extra two rooms per floor?

http://i51.tinypic.com/28vr503.jpg

Personally, I don't mind the Marriott, even with the salmon colouring...it's by far the least offensive of the 'school of salmon' buildings down that way as far as I'm concerned.

I think the faux art deco design of the building is unique enough to pull it off.

Yeah I think its an interesting addition and look forward to it. If it is indeed 2x hotel rooms per floor that would mean around 50 additional hotel rooms.

Personally, I don't mind the Marriott, even with the salmon colouring...it's by far the least offensive of the 'school of salmon' buildings down that way as far as I'm concerned.

I think the faux art deco design of the building is unique enough to pull it off.

Yes definitely agree. it is one of the few that actually work. It is also less "salmon" than many of the others.

hate the base :( rest is OK

Would that be an extra two rooms per floor?



It will add one room per floor.

Yeah, I pretty much agree with the rest of you. The extension looks OK. Nothing special, but not bad. And I really do like that it'll be one less beige wall, especially at such a prominent location, but I really don't know how the expense of it makes it feasible. For just one more room per floor, it seems almost extravagent for what you're getting out of it.

I actually think the marriot pulls of its colour very well, ive always had a soft spot, maybe its the lact of balconies

The base looks like it should say "Westfield" rather than "Marriott". And is that a large car-park entrance at the end? Horrible.

The tower extension may be ok, but I quite like the faux art deco design of the building as it is, so hopefully this doesn't detract from it.

The base looks like it should say "Westfield" rather than "Marriott". And is that a large car-park entrance at the end? Horrible.

The tower extension may be ok, but I quite like the faux art deco design of the building as it is, so hopefully this doesn't detract from it.

I don't think that's a carpark entrance on the end. As far as I know the extension doesn't propose any changes to the existing carpark. I am a little bit sad about the loss of the art deco portion on the corner.

As for the feasibility, after reading the description of the development, I think that they somewhat restrained to building within the existing building envelope by the planning guidelines. Doing anything more would require a much more lengthy wrangling the the council. Also, the small amount of additional rooms means they won't have to get some kind of "competition check" performed, which they would if the redevelopment were to create a larger number of rooms.

The building is very post-modern in design but it isn't faux Art Deco, it's more like Neo-classicism I think, with the columns, pediments et al.

I think this is exactly what a building like this needs - it was a mish-mash to begin with, with too many blank walls, so the sooner they start adding new elements to make it individual in its design the better!

hate the base :( rest is OK

The extended podium appears like it does fit in with the rest of it. They may as well rebuild the entire podium all together.

Good to see the blank walls disappear and the tower itself will look far better. My question is why they didn't do that when they first built it.

Noticed scaffolding up all around Petries today, perhaps about to start on this one?

Petries is closed and the works are well under way inside. Fences are up around the alfresco area as well. I still can't believe they're doing this, it's going to look terrible.

I'm more surprised that it's commercially viable to be honest. As for appearance, of the renders on the first page, two of them looked ok, and the other two didn't look so crash hot, so there's still hope that it might not look like a tacky add-on!

Maybe they are using some sort of new technology which makes such an extension commercially viable.

build the expansion to blend in with the rest of it

I don't believe this is even going ahead.

I don't believe this is even going ahead.

Why's that Dan? I thought it was, I must have misread it on a forum or somewhere else thought it was a given project to go ahead.