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• This brief was to redevelop the derelict site of a former Victorian public house to create a new hotel with associated restaurant at ground floor and nightclub in basement level, opposite the listed Rainbow theatre building.
  This ground floor of this new development is designed to accommodate a restaurant which could also be used as a music venue to reflect the most recent use of the site. The existing Basement area is to be increased to form a nightclub with kitchen facilities to be used by both the basement and restaurant areas.
  A further eight floors to the building form a hotel. The new built form acts as a focal point on this prominent corner when, creating a gateway for those entering the area and better enclosing the eastern side of Seven Sisters road.
  
  Due to the nature of the site, which is adjacent to a busy roadway and railway line the exterior of the building has been designed robustly to resist the noise and air pollution. For this reason the east facade ofthe building has minimal openings to act as a buffer between the railway, with a solid black wirecut brickwork finish on this elevation the building responds to the harsh nature of the site, using a brickwork finish to connect to the existing use of brick found within the surroundings. The upper floors of the Seven Sisters Road elevation will be more lightweight in appearance using zinc cladding externally with standing seams to provide an acoustic dampening adjacent to the road. The building has been designed with full length feature glazed bays to echo the characteristics of architectural style in the inter war years, a period contemporised by the opposite listed Rainbow Theatre. The full length bays are clad in red, green and blue toned zinc, to subtly reflect the colours as one passes by the building creating a spectrum or rainbow like effect, as often seen when light is disbursed by refraction, in an acknowledgement of the past history of the surroundings and the listed Rainbow Theatre