American-based Nobu Hospitality is set to open its first European hotel - a 156-bedroom hotel in Shoreditch in London. Nobu Hotel Shoreditch will be located in Willow Street. It will feature a restaurant, banqueting and meeting rooms plus a fitness centre. Preparation work is now underway on site and Nobu Hotel Shoreditch is expected to open in early 2016. The hotel’s unusual five-storey design is described in architectural-speak as ‘fractured into angular, fair-faced concrete balconies, which combined with cantilevered corten steel beams to form a seemingly frayed edge to the northern facade. Six protruding slab edges penetrate the glazing and accentuate the horizontality of the volume. An intimate landscaped garden at the site's eastern edge is articulated into terraces, seating and planting, and provides natural light and access to the generous lower triple height restaurant and bar space’.

Details: www.nobuhotels.com