Project Name: 21c Cincinnati

Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

Size: 160,000 Square Feet

Description:

In downtown Cincinnati, opposite the Aronoff Center for the Arts and next door to Zaha Hadid’s Center for Contemporary Art, the design for 21c Museum Hotel Cincinnati is a dramatic revision of a historic 1912 hotel building. Saving the few traces of its original grandeur still in tact, new spaces were added to create a thoughtful and textured sequence of rooms.

Historic spaces, like the Ballroom, were restored and refreshed with a contemporary color palette. Newly-created spaces carefully stitch together new and original building fabric to provide a rich background for the art. At the base of the building a new restaurant, the Metropole, was created out of the original hotel lobby.

21c Cincinnati has 156 guest rooms and each guest room bath has custom body-part tiles we designed, made by the local Rookwood Pottery Company.