Sustainable architecture
“There’s a strong connection between the sustainability and the architecture of the QO: they work together so completely that it’s impossible to distinguish what was a sustainability decision and what was an architectural one. We wanted to leave out as many unnecessary parts as we could (for example keeping the elevator cores bare) to limit the use of materials where we didn’t need them. We also had a few ambitions, such as wanting to have as much daylight in the rooms as possible. It’s usual in hotel design to have the corridor end on a room door, but at the QO they end on a window to get as much daylight as possible inside. This is just a small example of these touches that run throughout.”
Robert Mulder, Architect
