ITC Hotel
Five food and beverage venues and a spa, each given its own temperature — so that a guest moving through the hotel feels the change.
A hotel whose restaurants had to feel like separate destinations, not one interior repeated five times.
Guests in a business-district hotel eat in the same building three nights running. If every venue shares a palette, by the third night the hotel feels small. The brief was to make five rooms that a guest would describe differently to a colleague.
We assigned each venue an element and let it lead. The Indian restaurant is Agni — lacquered red, low pendants, heat. The aquarium lounge is Jal — submerged blues, curved seating, reflected light. All-day dining is Prithvi, in stone and warm timber, deliberately the calmest room in the hotel.
Because the property was operating, the build was phased venue by venue, with each kitchen dark for no more than a single night.
Every ceiling in the hotel is a different shape. Every floor is the same stone.
Drama lives overhead, where it cannot be scuffed. At floor level the material is continuous and replaceable — which is what lets a hotel interior survive its fifth year looking like its first.
