[Aquarius]

Type Hotel, Culture & Leisure
Dates 1999 - 2006
Site Area 50,000m² (including Park)

Gross Internal Area 14,000m² (Hotel)
4,500m² (Conference Centre)
5,900m² (Sports Club)

Total Cost €44,000,000
Number of Floors 30
Client Hespería Hotels SA
Architect Richard Rogers, Alonso Balaguer y Aquitectos Asociados

Pics: Forumer Danzig.., Grácias

Elevators:

Richard rogers web:

pic construction:

 

[crossbowman]

9/10...like it

 

[Miguel_Prat]

10/10

 

[marpa]

8,5/10

 

[El_Greco]

oi 4/10

 

[Moren-o]

Kitch at it's best. What a dreadful design!
4.5/10

 

[SkyLerm]

6/10 for me.

 

[Urban Dave]

WEB ARTICLE WITH IMAGES, RENDERS, PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AND PICTURES

 

[Benonie]

Looks like they've tried to bring some colour in a grey, concrete building of the sixties.
Is that a wart on the roof?
6,5/10 only

 

[Moren-o]

Looks like they've tried to bring some colour in a grey, concrete building of the sixties.
Is that a wart on the roof?
6,5/10 only

60's?

It was built in 1999 - 2006.

 

[Bitxofo]

Great and original!!
9.50/10
:happy:

 

[Accura4Matalan]

5/10

 

[forvine]

The render looks so much better 6/10

 

[Danzig]

Looks like they've tried to bring some colour in a grey, concrete building of the sixties.
Is that a wart on the roof?
6,5/10 only

are we watching the same building and the same pics?

Interior pictures:

the "ufo" on the top will be a panoramic restaurant

 

[Skyman]

7/10

 

[Urban Dave]

I followed the construction process very close. It's a really amazing building!
One of it's best for RICHARD ROGERS.
10/10

 

[Benonie]

are we watching the same building and the same pics?

Yes indeed.
And I reapeat: Looks like they've tried to bring some colour in a grey, concrete building of the sixties.
I didn't write it is a concrete building, but it seems a renavation of a sixties tower.
Like this Police Tower in Antwerp (1967, which can use a renovation anyway)

(pictures: emporis)
Just like several forum-members I'm not fond of exterior of the Hotel Hesperia Tower,
so I gave it an average 6,5/10.
The interior seems all right to me.

 

[AtlanticaC5]

5/10 I don't really like it, the naked concrete isn't very nice

 

[Vox]

I like it! 8,5/10

Vox

 

[SoboleuS]

Very original and very ugly. 5/10