Anděl City - Andel's Suites

As part of the first phase of Anděl City, the Andel's Hotel Prague was built, followed in the second phase by Andel's Suites Prague. The content of "serviced apartments and suites", i.e., apartments for long-term accommodation, combines the advantages of a hotel and an apartment building. The building has its own entrance, a lobby with a concierge, and additionally, there is a connection to the hotel on each floor, allowing for room cleaning and guest access to the hotel’s restaurants and conference center.
The remaining part of the ground floor is used as a conference center with flexible dividing walls. On the right, there is a public passage with a lit laminated wall leading to the courtyard garden.
In designing the apartment floors, the fact that the property boundary, i.e., the street line, does not coincide with the course of the ground floor was utilized. The Andel's Hotel was founded with a rectangular grid, and the ground floor façade slightly retreats from the original street line at the expense of the sidewalk. The deviation between the street line and the ground floor façade at Andel's Suites is already 1.2 m. It is divided into five levels, with the façade of the 1st to 5th floors protruding into the street. This is followed by the façade of the neighboring Pfizer building. This retreating principle is manifested not only in the façade but also in the spine corridor, which jaggedly narrows from the elevators to the farthest apartment. The building features several sizes of apartments. On the 1st floor, there are duplex apartments with a bedroom level inserted into the high space of the living area. In the typical 2nd to 5th floors, there are studio and two-room “suites”, both types with a foyer, kitchenette, bathroom, and WC. The diversity of layouts is reflected in the irregularity of the street façade. It is clad in glass panels with screen printing featuring a pattern of two colors, white and imitation sandblasting. The panels are backed with thermal insulation with black fabric, which, along with anchoring elements, shines through the sandblasted parts of the pattern. The windows are joined into vertical elements using glass in the color of olive brown. The white veined part of the façade has printing on the outer side, resulting in minimal reflectivity. The pattern is a multiple magnification of feathers (angelic) down. The vertical dark stripes evoke the impression of a film strip with colored squares of hotel rooms. The retreating levels of the large apartments with a fully glazed façade and sliding doors feature a stone terrace with a garden.
The courtyard façade is smooth white from a contact mineral thermal insulation system. Large double-hung windows have enormous laminated window boxes hanging in front of the sills, filled with tall grass of the species Miscanthus, connecting the windows into vertical bands. The XL size of “window boxes” lends the façade a humorous third dimension.

Interior design: Jestico + Whiles, James Dilley and UBM Bohemia, David Lukas
Structural solution: EC&Mc Neely