Hotel Now!

Interior Design + VisitScotland present Hotel Now! Exhibition.

VisitScotland Quality & Standards set a challenge for third year Interior Design students at Glasgow School of Art: to create three and five star hotels with an innovative vision of the traditional and contemporary diversity of Scottish culture. Quality advisers from VisitScotland collaborated with students to develop individual briefs and ensure accommodation standards.
There were two sites, a nine storey 1970’s block on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow and a converted and extended Victorian villa in Inverary.




Lorna Mangon from Beverley (East Yorkshire) was the student behind the VisitScotland Quality Assurance team’s selected design. Capturing the essence of Glasgow's culture, Lorna included aspects of iconic Glaswegian design in her work and was inspired by the urban scene she has experienced while studying in the city. She explains:

"I wanted to design a hotel that would reflect the rawness of Glasgow and it's arty culture and architecture, something that was unpretentious and quirky. The idea was to create a different hotel experience that the guests would remember when visiting Glasgow. The design concept can only be described as 'rough-luxe', a combination of raw materials and unique found objects, ephemera and memorabilia sourced from the city."

Lorna won a nights stay at Hotel Missoni Edinburgh.

New York:

Study trip to New York 2010.

The Year 3 Study trip gives students the opportunity to spend a week exploring and discovering design. This year we went to New York giving us the chance to see much great design in many different contexts.




With two organised visits:

• Hudson Hotel 356 W.58th, designed by Starck
• Gramercy Park Hotel, 2 Lexington Avenue, various designers, inc Ian Shraeger, Martin Baas + Julian Schnabel.

Plus, but not exclusively:

• Prada (Koolhaas) corner of Broadway and Prince @ Prince St Subway
• Pleats Please, corner of Prince and Wooster (Toshiko Mori and Gwenail Nicolas)
• Camper, 125 Prince St. (Marti Guixé)
• Longchamp, 132 Spring St. (Heatherwick Studio)
• Alessi, 130 Greene St. (Hani Rashid/Asymptote Studio)
• Droog, 76 Greene St
• Comme des Garçons (Studio Morsa, Future Systems + Rei Kawakubo) W21st 11th /12th Ave
• Vitra showroom and office (Roy Design)
• Stella McCartney, 429 W 14th Street (Universal Design Studio)
• Alexander McQueen, 417 W 14th Street (Russell (Pentagram) + Alexander McQueen)
• Carlos Miele W 14th Street (Asymptote)
• Catherine Malandrino, 652 Hudson St. (Christope Pillet)
• Printed Matter (Art/Design books + print) 11th Ave between 20th+21st
• Apple Store (5th Ave + South East corner of Central Park)
• The Standard Hotel, 848 Washington Street (Interiors by Roman and Williams, building by Polshek Partnership)
• Hotel on Rivington, Rivington Street. Lower East Side. (Thor bar: Marcel Wanders)
• Paramount Hotel 235 W.46th,
• Royalton Hotel 44 W.44th (both Starck)
• ʻWʼ hotel (Yabu Pushelberg), Times Square/47th Street
• The High-Line, park on elevated railway line linking West Chelsea and Meatpacking district surrounded by development work includes buildings by Shigeru Ban, Lindy Roy and Frank Gehry www.thehighline.org/
• Williamsburg in general
• The New Museum (SANAA) 235 Bowery. $6
• MoMA 53rd St (Yoshio Taniguchi) www.moma.org $12 (Fri 4–8 free)
• PS1 (Fredrick Fischer) 22-25 Jackson Avenue $2
• The Storefront for Art and Architecture, www.storefrontnews.org 97 Kenmare Street, free
• Brasserie (Diller + Scofidio) beneath Seagram Building 375 Park Ave. (Mies van der Rohe)
• Empire Diner, (an original stainless steel deco diner) 11th Ave

Scottish Hotel:

Design a hotel appropriate for a progressive Scottish tourism market.

This is the question being answered by our year 3 students, working with advice from Quality Advisors from VisitScotland’s Quality and Standards department.

Using two existing sites, the Loch Fyne Hotel, Inveraray, and the Euro Hostel, Glasgow, our students are being asked to consider designing either a rural or urban hotel expressing a fresh and innovative take on the diversity of Scottish culture and heritage.

Working with Quality Advisors they will comply with the criteria requirements of the VisitScotland Quality Assurance Scheme which would achieve a star award of three or five stars.

The design proposals will be exhibited at the VisitScotland Expo 2010, Scotland’s only flagship business to business event for the travel trade that is entirely Scottish.


Team visit to Loch Fyne Hotel.

See here for details of the VisitScotland exhibition of final designs at SECC.

About:

Interior Design
at
The Glasgow School of Art

Head of Department
Drew Plunkett BSc MA FRSA

Interior Design is about the revitalisation and enrichment of buildings, the creation of exciting, enjoyable - and practical - environments. Old buildings and new functions must be made compatible. Existing qualities must be respected and future identities defined.

Designing an interior, like every other creative act, involves making a personal statement but a shared understanding of social and architectural conventions gives designers and those who use their buildings a common language. The designer must enrich the vocabulary of that language.

Interior Design is a vibrant profession with a proven record for improving quality of life and generating business success. It has a well-established professional structure which allows graduates the opportunity to gain invaluable experience at various levels of responsibility before choosing to set up in independent practice or take leading roles in established studios.
OUR GRADUATES

Glasgow School of Art graduates have a fully comprehensive range of the skills necessary for professional success and, while a number find work in the parallel fields of theatre and film design, the overwhelming majority chose to work within the profession.

While a few of our graduates immediately set up their own practices, like Studioarc and LWD, based in Glasgow and Edinburgh, many find roles within established design companies, like Graven Images and Curious Oranj in Glasgow. The majority work in the UK, particularly in London, which is the global centre for interior design activity. Some work for small specialist practices, creating, for example, video and recording studios.

Others work for major international companies like Conran Associates, Fitch Associates, Imagination, Landor and Mulberry. A significant percentage work overseas, in Holland, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Spain, Japan, Australia and The People's Republic of China.