Nobu Hotel Barcelona
Hotel & Resort
Capturing the unique essence of the famous European city while reflecting the brand’s core aspirational lifestyle offering, Nobu Hotel Barcelona is inspired by iconic Spanish design and traditional Japanese crafts.
- Client
- Nobu
- Project Category
- Hotel & Resort
- Select Awards
- Sleeper Magazine AHEAD Europe: Suite Shortlist
- Select Press
The entry is a quiet, mediating the boundary between the hotel and the street. Shinto gates are abstracted around the entry vestibule in the form of bright orange, woven screen, which continues inside to create porosity between outside and in.
“We envision the environment as an abstract landscape, in which every element and detail is crafted in an unusual and unexpected way, much like Nobu's cuisine.”
A grand stair connects all the public areas and is accentuated by a large art piece that is suspended in the stairwell.
Nobu Restaurant sits atop the building with 360-degree views of the Catalan capital. A kintsugi-inspired ceiling has suspended live-edge walnut panels with gold “cracks” in between. At the bar, a cracked blue ceramic ceiling complements columns clad in highly sculptural blue and white ceramic kintsugi-inspired sculptures.
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“A warm sense of the Japanese aesthetic pervades, particularly in the Umi and Sake suites, which Rockwell has layered with woven cane, wall panels inked with calligraphic waves, lashings of bronze, delicate porcelain vases, slender timber slatted screens.”
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“Housed across the former Gran Hotel Torre de Catalunya, the sumptuous 250-room property features a design that captures the joie de vivre of the Spanish locale through the brand’s innovative, imaginative lens”
Hospitality Design 
