SIDE

Architecture Störmer Murphy and Partners

Architecture Störmer Murphy and Partners

Jan Störmer’s glass and steel architecture is nestled in an area where classy urban chic meets established normality.

Though only 11 stories high, Side evokes visions of luminescent skyscrapers. The hotel's atrium lobby is encased by frosted glass, stretching eight stories high like a luminescent sliver between tall buildings. Hovering above the atrium is the sky lounge, where Milanese designer Matteo Thun suggests weightlessness with improbably curved furniture and floating disk lighting.

Interior design Matteo Thun

A spectacular light show designed by iconic light choreographer Robert Wilson pulses through a soaring atrium...

with ever-changing intensity, mimicking the breaking of waves. Against the backdrop of Matteo Thun’s sober minimalism, the interior is softened by voluptuously round furnishings. Buttery creams and sumptuous browns serve as the soothing canvas in guestrooms, against which the Italian designer cleverly juxtaposes public areas using splashes of garish color.