Montreal, Quebec
Hotel
Competition

In France, the “hôtel particulier” was historically a city residence of an eminent person or the private home of a single family and their domestic staff. The word “particulier” refers to private ownership. This is the personalized experience we look for in a contemporary hotel: the feeling of comfortable familiarity, a home away from home, with the bonus of luxury. Paradoxically, we also want a hotel to offer a certain displacement conducive to exceptional experiences. In that respect, the “particular” aspect of the “hôtel particulier” can also conjure the unusual or even strange. The concept of the proposed hotel explores this double meaning of “particulier” and the open-ended space between these two opposites. Located in the Mile-End, this intimate hotel of a variety of public and private spaces — 45 rooms, café, restaurant, bar, gym, swimming pool and art gallery — acts as a hub where travelers consort with local residents. It imagines a place where experiences alternate between familiar and strange, the déja-vu and the surprising, the ordinary and the extraordinary.
Hôtel Mile End