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Bennetts Associates

Mint Hotel Tower of London

City of London, UK

Client
Mint Hotel Group

Project Team
Bennets Associates (Architects);
Gleeds (Project Manager); Jones Lang
LaSalle (Cost Consultant); Bennetts
Associates / Woods Bagot (Interior
Design); AECOM (Acoustic Consultant
& M&E Engineer); DP9 (Town Planning
Consultant); In Your Stride (Accessibility
Consultant); Frost Landscape
Construction (Living Wall Contractor)

Structural Engineer
Buro Happold

Main Contractor
Laing O’Rourke

Located on a tight urban site near

Tower Bridge in the City of London,
this hotel has been carefully inserted
into the medieval street pattern. The
hotel replaces a 1960s’ building that
failed to connect to the dense
contextual fabric. The new
development seeks to address this by 1 The confined island 2 The materials used environment. covers the bar area
site does not allow the reflect those found in 4 Giant concrete and allows views of the
building out to the original street line entire building to be buildings adjacent to columns and deep courtyard and green
and by populating the ground level viewed from any point. the site. beams support the wall above.
The scale and metre of 3 The green wall hotel over the entrance
with a variety of public uses. the building is brings a welcome area.
Although this is very much a city measured to its natural element to the 5 The glazed roof with
surroundings. intense urban its delicate lattice
building, nature has been brought
deep into the hotel. The courtyard 3 4
incorporates the largest green wall in
Europe, rising up from the ground
floor to the eleventh-floor terrace. This
space provides welcome calm in the
turbulent city.
There are 583 bedrooms in the
hotel, along with meeting rooms,
conference facilities, three bars and
an award-winning restaurant. The
main bulk of the building is scaled to
adjacent buildings. At the roof level,
the SkyLounge is treated as a discrete
lighter element that hovers above the
adjacent roofs, allowing spectacular
views over London’s skyline.
Throughout the project, a clear,
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strong and disciplined material
language lends the hotel a powerful
image. This is particularly evident in
the powerful concrete columns and
beams of the entrance canopy.

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