http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T12:14:21Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Bowery%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/1/251/88902 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/34094/oda.jpg" class="top"><p> To prevent the 10-foot-6-inch-wide rooms at the Bowery's new <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com"><b>Lower East Side Hotel</b></a> from looking cramped, the Office for Design & Architecture, the folks behind the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/2/24/152413/748/hotels/Renderings_of_SoHo_s_Grand_Street_Hotel_Have_Surfaced"><b>Grand Street Hotel</b></a>, got rid of the bathrooms. Instead of having a private place to do your business, the hotel puts the glass flash-all-your-bits shower in the middle of the room and the toilet sits in the corner for all to see. <p>The architects' mission was accomplished, since the shower, which looks like a Voss water bottle&#151;you know, those tall fancy glass bottles of water that clubs sell for, like, $10&#151;is the main focus. Here's what the architects said about the design: <blockquote><p>"With the skin of the bathroom removed, Jennifer Kester 2009-09-01T09:13:53-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/9/115326/5599 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/250bowery.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>While we still aren't quite sure what's happening with <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/6/19/111549/297/hotels/Lost_Hotel_Files_Whatever_Happened_to_Greenhouse_26_">Greenhouse 26</a> (it could open as soon as 2009), there is another green hotel on the horizon for Manhattan.<p>A 63-room boutique hotel is slated for <b>250 Bowery</b> between Houston and Prince streets across from the New Museum and it will be a totally green hotel with "sustainable technologies." <p>These include a green roof, geothermal system, water-efficient plumbing fixtures, a steel facade as well as sustainable and renewable construction materials.<p>Peter Moore Associates are behind the building's conception. This architecture/development company, helmed by Peter Moore (natch) have mostly done residential buildings but as <a href="http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/06/gowanus_sees_ma.php">Brownstoner</a> reports, they are getting more and more involved in hotels. No word yet on what juliana 2008-07-09T12:45:14-05:00 40.723040 -73.993390 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/