Hotel & Venue News

Village Urban Resorts is planning a new hotel in Basingstoke. The 153-bedroom hotel will be located within the town’s Basing View business district.

The hotel will be branded as a Village Hotel Club, a brand which the group launched earlier this year.

Village Hotel Club Basingstoke will include a restaurant, bar, Starbucks coffee shop, events facilities plus a health and fitness club.

Village Urban Resorts is aiming to double its portfolio of 28 properties over the next five years.

Details: https://www.village-hotels.co.uk/

Details: Published: 28 November 2016; Hits: 497

The Design Museum has just opened its new home on the site of the former Commonwealth Institute in Kensington, London.

The Design Museum include two major temporary gallery spaces, a free permanent collection display, a restaurant overlooking Holland Park, an auditorium, studios, a library and an archive and learning facilities.

The 10,000sq-mt site also incorporates event space. This includes:

The 460 sq-mt Bakala auditorium which will seat up to 200 delegates theatre style with state-of-the-art AV facilities. It can be used for screenings, conferences, product launches, lectures and award ceremonies.

The 319 sq-mt Helene and Johannes Huth Gallery, located on the second floor of the museum, has views over Holland Park. It will seat up to 200 guests for a dinner. The room will also divide into two separate sections.

The 314 sq-mt atrium is the main entrance to the museum; a triple height space with views of the Design Museum’s dramatic roof. It is available for cocktail receptions, launches or award ceremonies – and can be combined with the Bakala auditorium for larger events.

The Design Museum is located in Kensington High Street, short walk from High Street Kensington tube station.

Details: https://designmuseum.org/venue-hire

Details: Published: 28 November 2016; Hits: 475

Plans for the latest phase of the Circle Square development in Manchester have been approved. They include a new part-12 part-18 storey building which will feature a new 150 bedroom hotel.

The Circle Square development is the former BBC site on Oxford Road in Manchester located between Princess Street and Upper Brook Street.

The Circle Square masterplan includes a new concert hall, office space and hundreds of apartments.

The development will also include its own Energy Centre creating heat and power for the entire Circle Square community.

Details: Published: 23 November 2016; Hits: 424

Permission has been granted to build London's first underground hotel in Bloomsbury.

The plan, initially rejected by Camden Council, would see a 166-bedroom hotel built on the site of a converted former NCP car park underneath St Giles Hotel in Great Russell Street.

Concerns for guest safety sleeping below ground level as well as the air quality in the window-less bedrooms have now been dispelled.

The proposed hotel, a stone’s throw from Tottenham Court Road tube station, will be designed as budget accommodation for short-term stays for tourists and business travellers.