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Get A Room of Your Own On London's South Bank

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Southbank, London, United Kingdom
February 14, 2011 at 12:01 PM | by | Comments (0)

The site of A Room for London, overlooking the River Thames

More a concept space and cultural experiment than anything else, A Room for London is likely the smallest scale boutique "hotel" you'll ever encounter. The one room installation, commissioned as a part of London's 2012 Festival, will be located on atop the Queen Elizabeth Hall and open for public booking come September of this year.

Intended to provide lodgers with a "poetic and life-enhancing" stay, the room was designed to resemble a boat teetering on the edge of the Southbank Centre, "as if [surrounded] by retreating floodwaters." (A swanky suite at the Mandarin Oriental it most certainly is not.) Special "thinkers-in-residence" will be invited to stay in the quirkily appointed space during the duration of its opening, requested to create virtual and artistic logbook entries inspired by their experience in the famed, nautically-themed room.

The hotel will be open from January to December 2012. Keep tabs on Living Architecture's website, where reservations for the room will open beginning on September 8th, surely at a premium price. We can't imagine that exclusivity, an impressive panorama of the Southbank and the opportunity for deeply spiritual self-reflection—as the room is said to inspire—would be part of any all-inclusive weekend package. Scrounge up £500, book a stay and get your Virginia Woolf on, lady wordsmiths.

Photo: Living Architecture

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