Untitled - Cosmopolite

Architectural
landscape
Architectural landscape
Cosmopolite Hotel opened in the former factory «Bolshevik» on the 1st of December, 2011
Architectural landscape
The hotel is an organic stylistic part of industrial aesthetics of the district and architecture of a shopping mall «Bolshevik»
General concept
General concept
The general concept of the exterior and interior is inspired by the aesthetics of the avant-garde era
General concept
The main idea is devoted to Russian abstract artists, who opposed Soviet Union regime by their pioneering painting
General concept
The project continues the tradition of constructivism of the early 20th century, in particular, of such an artists
as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe
Design
Design
Maximum ergonomic use of the space does not leave any empty zones in the hotel
Design
Floors of the hotel are designed like art gallery and covered by a special soundproofing fabric eliminating the street noise
Design
Due to the small area of building all hotel zones are connected on the third floor, that gives free space
for transport parking between the hotel and the restaurant on the first floor
Exterior
Exterior
Concrete design of the building reflects the basic ideas and postulates of modernist architecture: straight lines,
solid colours and geometric shapes
Exterior
A sculpture created specially for the Cosmopolite hotel by a Ukrainian artist Alexey Zolotarev,
entitled «Tribute to Kazimir Malevich» as one of the founders of the avant-garde
Exterior
A sculpture of a rotating sphere near the hotel entrance, which shows ways of the Ukrainian emigration in the world,
discloses the name of the hotel: Cosmopolite is a world citizen
Interior
Interior
Each floor is dedicated to one of Soviet abstract artists: Rodchenko, Malevich, Burliuk, Exter and Kandinsky,
and is designed as a museum exhibition of the mentioned artists
Interior
There are two restaurants in the hotel: German and French ones, connected by a panoramic staircase
connecting both restaurants, which symbolizes the path of emigration of Russian artists to the West
Interior
A significant part of the German restaurant interior is its own brewery, separated from the common zone of the
​​ restaurant
by a glass wall
Interior
There are so-called museum rooms on the each floor, containing collections of books on the art of the twentieth century,
as well as brochures with the artists’ biography and invitations to the coming exhibitions in the Kyiv city
Interior
Exclusive furniture from Italy and Netherlands made of natural materials underlines the general concept
of space functionality propagated by the modernists of the twentieth century
Interior
Room names are made by LED backlight
Interior
Floor corridors are decorated with regularly changing exhibition of paintings by contemporary Ukrainian artists
who followed the tradition of the avant-garde
Interior
Floors are decorated with original collages of paintings and photographs of artists and with tapestries
with elements of paintings woven in Italy
Cosmopolite Hotel – where business becomes an art