A hotel in Sweden gets a pavilion draped with perforated aluminium

October 23, 2015

Pavilion for Best Western Hotel Baltic by The Common Office

Photography by Mikael Olsson

 

The Common Office have designed a pavilion for the Best Western Hotel Baltic, in Sundsvall, Sweden.

 

Pavilion for Best Western Hotel Baltic by The Common Office

Photography by Mikael Olsson

The designer’s description

Sundsvall’s 1900s traditional cityscape is characterized by the classicistic architecture.

Pavilion for Best Western Hotel Baltic by The Common Office

Photography by Mikael Olsson

The expression of the pavilion borders architecture of the contemporary and the past.

Pavilion for Best Western Hotel Baltic by The Common Office

Photography by Mikael Olsson

Similar to a baldaquin, the pavilion is draped with cloth of perforated aluminium.

Pavilion for Best Western Hotel Baltic by The Common Office

Photography by Mikael Olsson

The perforated aluminum sheets give the building different expressions depending on the light and time of the day.

Pavilion for Best Western Hotel Baltic by The Common Office

Photography by Mikael Olsson

Pavilion for Best Western Hotel Baltic by The Common Office

Photography by Mikael Olsson

Pavilion for Best Western Hotel Baltic by The Common Office

Photography by Mikael Olsson

Pavilion for Best Western Hotel Baltic by The Common Office

Photography by Mikael Olsson

Pavilion for Best Western Hotel Baltic by The Common Office

Photography by Mikael Olsson