Carmody Groarke, the London-based firm of architects, has won an RIBA competition to build a new luxury hotel suite at Burgh Island Hotel on Burgh Island in South Devon.
Burgh Island Hotel is a small, privately owned hotel located on a 26-acre tidal island off the coast of South Devon and separated by the sea from the mainland twice a day at high tide. The hotel was built in 1929, extended in 1932 and now restored to its 1930s glamour.
Burgh Island Hotel is a Grade II-listed art-deco building and is a ‘retreat out of time like none other’.
The new hotel suite will offer guests an exclusive retreat set within the dramatic landscape of the existing hotel. Carmody Groarke’s vision is for a curving, sculptural grass-roofed suite extending from the cliffs and connecting two rocky outcrops whilst suspended over the sea like an inhabited bridge.
The new suite is designed as an ’unforgettable and luxurious experience for guests’.
Burgh Island Hotel has 25 bedrooms. Facilities include a lift, a sun lounge, Palm Court bar, a dining room, a ballroom, a billiard room, a spa, free wi-fi, 17-acre grounds, a 30-metre natural sea swimming pool and tennis courts.
