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JOI-Design wins ADEX Platinum award for Park Inn Krakow
Published: 12-Apr-2010
German hospitality design firm JOI-Design has won Platinum award for Park Inn Krakow in Poland in the Awards for Design Excellence (ADEX) competition, sponsored by Design Journal magazine.
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The Park Inn Krakow in Poland has been honored with a Platinum ADEX award for its interior design, which balanced the need for brand recognition of one of Poland’s first Park Inn hotels. JOI-Design, in partnership with Krakow-based Ovotz Design Lab, was charged with conceiving an interiors style that seamlessly intertwines with the bold shapes of the new-build structure developed by J. Mayer H. Architecture. This was achieved through the concept ‘Inside Out’, or creating a design that transports the powerful visual language of the architecture to the hotel's public areas.
As the lobby has very few interior walls, the varying functions of its spaces rely upon the furniture and flooring shapes for delineation. The strong modern forms of the lobby's décor are expressly drawn from the radiuses and angles of the structural envelope. The curves found in the lobby's lounge chairs, wall covering pattern and interior columns mirror the rounded edges of the exterior windows, while the vertical mullions are reflected in the pendant lights hung above the stairwell. The building's horizontal and angular lines are interpreted through the inlaid pattern of the floor tiles, the race-track inset of the stairwell enclosure, and most evidently, in the black lacquered reception desk that doubles as a monolithic sculpture.
The front desk provided an opportunity to integrate Park Inn's iconic red, blue, yellow and green stripe into the lobby design without necessitating that the other public areas' color palette adopt these hues. The chain's vibrant emblem is interpreted as a column of backlit colored glass which, when placed behind the desk's inky ebony, becomes a singular focal ‘punch’ against the neutral background.
The ADEX Awards was founded in 1994 by Design Journal magazine, the international publication for interior designers, architects and facility managers, and are judged by an anonymous panel of professional specifiers who specialize in hotel design.
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