Hotel ICON the sole finalist in United Nations Tourism Awards Hotel ICON is the only finalist from Greater China – and the lone hotel – in the United Nation’s World Tourism Organization Awards for Excellence and Innovation in Tourism 2013. Rocco Design Architects is a Chinese architectural practice based in Hong Kong. Working in a region with disparate cultural and physical landscapes, and where values from diverging times and places converge, Rocco Design’s work is grounded in the belief that architecture is the embodiment of culture – embracing and reinterpreting the past, as well as addressing modernity – and the requirements of contemporary living. 
 
The Teaching Hotel for HK PolyU (Hotel ICON) retains the original staff residential function, but subsumes it into an overall composition that now comprises a 262-room hotel as well as a teaching complex. The site is opened up horizontally both visually and spatially with glass atria at various levels allowing visual permeability connecting either sides of the site. In the process of fulfilling the client’s aspiration, the architecture reflects Hong Kong’s unique phenomenon whereby seemingly conflicting uses are amalgamated into an integral whole. The site’s memory will linger on, and when staff move back into their quarters, they would embrace a new environment enriched by its interaction with other uses.
 
TTG China Travel Awards (Best New Hotel in HK) 2012
Skyrise Greenery Awards (Silver Award) 2012
Bloomberg International Hotels Award (Best New Hotel Construction and Design for HK) 2012
HKIA Medal of the Year 2011
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