Architect Mark Bruce of EPR Architects told Dezeen how the firm created an ornate luxury hotel in the shell of an 18th-century prison in this video produced for the AHEAD hospitality awards by Dezeen.
NoMad London is located in the former Grade-II listed Bow Street Magistrates Court and Police Station in Covent Garden, London.
The property is the first overseas outpost of American hotel brand NoMad.
NoMad is a luxury hotel in central London
The AHEAD Awards celebrate striking hospitality projects from across the world and is split into four different regions: Europe, Middle East and Africa, Â Asia and the Americas.
“Interpretation of luxury is a really interesting topic, especially when you come to a project like NoMad, London. How do you turn a magistrate’s court and a police station that had prison cells into a luxury environment,” Bruce told Dezeen.
The prison’s historic inhabitants include the Kray Twins, Oscar Wilde and Emmeline Pankhurst.
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