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Our hotel design extracts Queenstown’s layered architectural character into a contemporary, contextually grounded hotel. A series of carefully oriented rooms frame views to the nearby Shotover River, to the dramatic Southern Alps as well as to surrounding gardens. Stepped, smaller building volumes follow the alpine terrain to reduce spatial presence and align with neighbouring developments.

 At the centre, a landscaped courtyard anchors the site, supported by multiple street entries that introduce layered landscape thresholds and encourage public use. The main hotel arrival point on Man Street sits at the site’s high point, while Hay Street offers retail and public spaces that lead toward Shotover Street and its active two-storey podium.

 

  • Traditional Custodians Ngāi Tahu
  • Location Queenstown, New Zealand
  • Client Well Smart Group
  • Floor area 3,645 m2
  • Status Design

Above the in-situ podium, the hotel is delivered as a fully volumetric modular structure— responds directly to the site’s extreme topography, seismic conditions.  Fully fitted room pods are manufactured off-site and craned into place atop seismic isolation plates, creating two distinct modular towers connected by a lightweight bridge.

Bronze aluminium cladding and a tiled in-situ concrete podium with punched glazing above and heavy landscaping across multiple levels allows the building to recede into the topography. The façades incorporate vertical elements that balance rhythm and texture that reference Queenstown’s historic architecture.

 

 

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