INTERCONTINENTAL INDIGO LISBON - Promontorio

INTERCONTINENTAL
INDIGO LISBON
Sao Nicolau Street (Lisbon Pombaline Quarter), Portugal, 2010
HOTELS
Location Sao Nicolau Street (Lisbon Pombaline Quarter), Portugal
Operator IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group Plc)
Property Corpus Christi Fund (Tranquilidade Insurance)
Programme 4-star 139-bdr city hotel
Estimated Cost EUR 900.00 per sq.m
Gross Built Area 10,000 sq.m
Interior Design Promontorio Interior Design
Project Status 2010 (Preliminary Study)
Existing building
Site plan
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INTERCONTINENTAL INDIGO LISBON
Sao Nicolau Street (Lisbon Pombaline Quarter), Portugal, 2010
4th floor plan
1st floor plan
Cross-sections
Ground floor plan
www.promontorio.net

INTERCONTINENTAL INDIGO LISBON
Sao Nicolau Street (Lisbon Pombaline Quarter), Portugal, 2010
Existing buinding
Lisbon was the city chosen by IHG
(InterContinental Hotels Group Plc),
the world’s largest hotel group, to open
the first hotel of its contemporary brand
Indigo, which will be located in one of
the most notable buildings of the listed
historical quarter of Baixa, the convent of
Corpus Christi. The new hotel will occupy
a full block along the Rua da Madalena,
with 139 rooms, conference rooms and
meeting rooms, gym, lounge, bar and
restaurant.
The Carmelite convent of Corpus Christi
was built by King John IV, in 1648,
in thanksgiving for the survival to an
assassination attempt. Destroyed in 1755
by the Earthquake and the ensuing fire,
only the body of the church and some
convent spaces remained and even these
had to conform to the new architectural
rules and structural systems imposed
by the crown architects bureau, known
as Casa do Risco. In 1834, with the
extinction of religious orders, the convent
was sold and turned into residential and
commercial leases. The original church of
circular plan and octagonal dome, topped
by an aloft spire, is still visible today, as
well as its entrance portal.
This Pombaline reconstruction resulted in
what is arguably one of the first European
attempts to design an anti-seismic
structure, anticipating the standardization
process of the American “balloon frame”
by over a century. Therefore, and unlike
other renovation programmes where inner
partitions may be unessential, here only
minimal changes to the structure and
layout are acceptable, leaving very little
room for change. InterContinental Hotels
Group (IHG) is present in one hundred
countries. As for the Indigo brand, the
chain has 37 units worldwide, projected to
open another 59 hotels, including the benamed
Indigo Lisbon Old Town.
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