梦幻市中心酒店位于纽约切尔西中心附近。

12层的建筑包括316间客房，两间餐厅，屋顶花园，贵宾室，室外泳池和池边酒吧，健身房，公共空间和地面零售。酒店前身是1966年的一座地标大楼，建筑师为建筑加上炫目的不锈钢表皮。表皮映射出天空，太阳，月亮，有着完美的光影效果。圆形的窗户就像气泡般浮动在建筑上。双层不锈钢表皮（部分穿孔）为建筑赋予了新的生命。入口雨棚的造型像是建筑表皮掀起了一块。

圆这个元素随处可见，不光是外立面的窗户，穿孔造型，还是露天泳池底部的玻璃圆形采光井，光线通过泳池照射进下方的大厅，形成了奇妙的互动。大厅天花上有着圆形的造型，餐厅天花上有大约200多个公共吹制的圆形玻璃球灯具，他们形成了一片奇妙的光云。公共场所以及客房的灯具以及家具都是特别定制，与酒店外观浑然一体，营造出整体美好的客户体验感。

Dream Downtown Hotel

Location : 355 West 16th Street, New York, NY

Dream Downtown Hotel is a 184,000 SF boutique hotel in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. The 12-story building includes 316 guestrooms, two restaurants, rooftop and VIP lounges, outdoor pool and pool bar, a gym, event space, and ground floor retail.

Dream sits on a though-block site, fronting both 16th and 17th Streets, and is adjacent tothe Maritime Hotel, which sits adjacent to the west. In 1964, the National Maritime Union ofAmerica commissioned New Orleans-based architect Albert Ledner to design a new headquartersfor the Union, on Seventh Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets. Two years later, he designedan annex for the headquarters on the site where Dream currently sits. A few years later, Mr.Ledner designed a flanking wing for the annex, which would eventually be converted to theMaritime Hotel. In the 1970s, the Union collapsed and the buildings were sold and used forvarious purposes in the years that followed. In 2006, Handel Architects was engaged toconvert the main annex into the Dream Downtown Hotel.

The otherness of Ledner’s 1966 design for the National Maritime Annex was critical to preserve. Along the 17th Street exposure, the sloped façade was clad in stainless steel tiles, which were placed in a running bond pattern like the original mosaic tiles of Ledner’s Union building. New porthole windows were added, one of the same dimension as the original and one half the size, loosening the rigid grid of the previous design, while creating a new façade of controlled chaos and verve. The tiles reflect the sky, sun, and moon, and when the light hits the façade perfectly, the stainless steel disintegrates and the circular windows appear to float like bubbles. The orthogonal panels fold at the corners, continuing the slope and generating a contrasting effect to the window pattern of the north façade.

The 16th Street side of the building, previously a blank façade when the building served as an annex, was given new life. The skin is constructed of two perforated stainless steel layers, its top sheet of holes a replication of the 17th Street punched-window design and the inner sheet a regular perforation pattern. The outer rain screen is punctured with porthole-shaped Juliet balconies for the guestrooms and peels up at the ground level to form the hotel canopy and reveal the hotel entrance.

The original through block building offered limited possibilities for natural light. Four floors were removed from the center of the building, which created a new pool terrace and beach along with new windows and balconies for guestrooms. The glass bottom pool allows guests in the lobby glimpses through the water to the outside (and vice versa) connecting the spaces in an ethereal way. Light wells framed in teak between the lobby, pool and lower level levels allow the space to flow. Two hundred hand blown glass globes float through the lobby and congregate over The Marble Lane restaurant filling the space with a magical light cloud. Fixtures and furnishings were custom designed for the public spaces and guestrooms to complement the exterior design and to continue the limitless feeling of space throughout the guest experience.

Handel Architects served as both architect and interior designer for the project.

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