Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong
Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong opened in 2005 as the hotel of the IFC development above Hong Kong Station, and in 2021 renovated earlier than hotels usually do, turning a minimalist lobby into curves.
- Neighbourhood
- Central, Hong Kong Island
- Opened
- September 2005
- Design
- Rocco Design (architecture); Remedios Studio (guest rooms, 2021); AB Concept (lobby, Gallery and ARGO, 2021)
Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong belongs to the International Finance Centre, the development built over Hong Kong Station, the Central terminus of the Airport Railway. Plans for its second phase in 2001 showed a Four Seasons hotel and a Four Seasons Suites tower beside the 88-storey Two IFC, for a consortium that included MTR Corporation, Sun Hung Kai Properties and Henderson Land. The developers promised, according to the South China Morning Post, the territory's first six-star hotel. It opened in September 2005 as the first Four Seasons in Hong Kong, with 399 rooms, 54 of them suites.
The hotel connects directly with the ifc mall and with Central Station, and the Airport Railway terminus it was built over is effectively at its door; the room categories are named for their view, of the harbour or of the Peak. Lung King Heen, the Cantonese restaurant, is by the hotel's account the world's first Chinese restaurant to have held three Michelin stars; it holds two now, and the hotel counts seven stars across its restaurants.
By 2021 newer five-star hotels in the city had raised the competition, Remedios Studio explained, so the renovation came earlier than the usual hotel lifecycle. The studio built the rooms around the idea of "Homecoming": "We created a refined and timeless design by connecting the old with the new." The general manager, Bill Taylor, described headboards inspired by traditional Hong Kong architecture and wardrobe doors carrying Chinese landscape art; OKYTO reported the room redesign when it was completed.
AB Concept then took on the lobby, where the original minimalist sharp corners gave way to curves inspired by a conservatory, and turned the Blue Bar into ARGO. In front of the bar's harbour windows, more than 180 shagreen-clad cylinders wrap a circular structural column, and 72 of them revolve, opening through the day until, at night, they reveal the rare spirits stored inside.
Sources: Hotel Online; South China Morning Post; CUHK Library; Rider Levett Bucknall; Design and Architecture; Hospitality Net; Home Journal; Supper; Four Seasons; Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong
Location
- Address
- 8 Finance Street, Central, Hong Kong
- Website
- Official website
- Reservations
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