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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. www.promontorio.net
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