Marriott Hotel, Zhangjiagang

Set in the economic and cultural centre, Zhangjiagang Marriott Hotel is the city’s newest and most elegant iconic landmark hotel. It features 323 spacious layout guestrooms and suites with floor-to-ceiling windows, skyline views and open-plan bathrooms.

As one of the port city along the Yangtze River, the Zhangjiagang hotel design details inspired from its unique geographical location. Water was a central element within the whole design. The designers used Oriental Aesthetic Chinese Shanshui Painting as a nursery of ideas in style. The designers took the color and shapes from the Mountains and Water as the cultural theme inspiration and used modern materials, texture and finishes to perfectly present a pleasurable experience to guests. The fundamental core values of Chinese cultural philosophy were applied to design technique to emphasize the unity and harmony.

The brief is to design a new contemporary Marriott-branded hotel that can articulate Marriott’s international brand strategy, philosophy and globally consistent image while take the owner’s operational, budget, time schedule requirements and aesthetic issues into consideration with very tight time schedule.