Located in Whitefield, an IT hub on the outskirts of Bangalore, this 200-room hotel aspires to also serve as a social hub for the community. The architects sought to blur the distinctions between architecture and landscape, indoor and outdoor, placing the structure in a sort of Moebius strip that serves as the podium, twisting and turning, interweaving among a variety of public and private spaces. The facade, a pixelated green-scape of different-coloured plates of glass, generated from a photograph of the site prior to construction, equally serves to blur landscape and architecture, inside and outside, and plays its part in inviting use of the hotel as an urban park.

Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture