The eleven storey high Crosby Street Hotel feature’s 86 luxury bedrooms and suites and is owned by the Firmdale Group, the company responsible for the build of the prestigious London Soho Hotel where Crittall Corporate W20 and Corporate 2000 profiles were used throughout. It was the success of this project in 2004 that led Firmdale to instruct the US architects, Stonehill & Taylor to again specify the range for this latest venture.
Crittall windows matched the requirements on two main counts – the aesthetic value of the extremely narrow sightlines, which enable large amounts of glazing to be used and the thermal performance.
Firmdale wanted the New York surroundings to be reflected in the design of the new hotel . The final design incorporates a dramatic rectilinear facade of brick framing 54 large New York loft style floor to ceiling height steel windows, which allow the maximum amount of natural daylight to flood the rooms.
The dark green coloured Crittall profiles use an unusual 24 pane configuration with a central pivotal four pane opening light, double glazed and infilled with special gas. This configuration helps to create an extremely low U value and effect excellent energy efficiency, belying the size of the windows.
Using the Crittall profiles was the only way to fulfil the client’s requirements for a visually striking structure which makes maximum use of glazing as a design medium without detracting from the stone architecture.
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