Hospitality · Hotel
A full-service business hotel designed around the needs of the modern corporate traveller
The Executive Hotel is among the more programme-intensive projects in HGC's portfolio — a full-service business hotel that accommodates guest rooms, conference facilities, food and beverage outlets, a fitness centre, back-of-house operations, and car parking within a single building. Hotels are architecturally demanding precisely because every square metre must serve a clearly defined operational purpose, and the relationships between those uses — guest circulation, service circulation, public spaces, and private rooms — must be resolved without compromise.
The design process began with a careful analysis of how different guest types — business travellers, conference delegates, long-stay guests, and day visitors — would move through and use the building at different times of day. This analysis shaped the spatial organisation of the hotel from the ground floor up. The arrival sequence was designed to be immediate and generous: a porte-cochère protects arriving guests from the elements, a lobby of appropriate scale signals arrival at a quality property without being intimidating, and the check-in counter is positioned to give reception staff a clear line of sight to the entrance.
Conference facilities occupy a dedicated floor with direct access from the main lift lobby, allowing large groups of delegates to move between sessions without disrupting the hotel's residential atmosphere on other floors. Each conference room is acoustically isolated and fitted with flexible AV infrastructure, while a dedicated pre-function space provides a break-out and refreshment area between sessions.
The typical guest room floor plate was optimised to maximise the number of rooms while preserving adequate corridor widths and avoiding the tunnel-like atmosphere that can afflict hotels where commercial pressure compresses the plan too aggressively. Room layouts were developed with the assistance of HGC's interior design team, who specified finishes, furniture, and lighting designed to create a calm, functional environment for the business traveller. Blackout curtains, acoustic walls, and triple-glazed windows ensure that guests can sleep well regardless of external conditions or the time zones they have recently crossed.
A hotel's quality is as much a product of its operational infrastructure as its visible spaces. HGC paid careful attention to the back-of-house elements — the service lifts, linen rooms, staff changing areas, kitchen, and receiving dock — ensuring that the flow of food, laundry, and supplies through the building is efficient and completely invisible to guests. The kitchen was designed in collaboration with a catering consultant and sized for the full capacity of the hotel's food and beverage outlets, with a separate receiving dock at the basement level allowing deliveries to be processed without vehicles on the main arrival forecourt.
