Sanjay Puri’s architectural masterpiece, The Chrome Hotel, Kolkata has an exemplary design. Chrome is a sculpted volume of multifarious forms, colours, textures, materials and lighting that gives the business traveller a fresh experience even on his repeated visits to the hotel.
Sanjay Puri Architects accomplish a design that not only stands apart despite its restricted geographical location and a height limitation of 24 m, but is an architectural delight by global standards. Not endowed with a scenic exterior view, the building takes on the avatar of an inward-looking box, enigmatically cutting away from the exterior altogether.
The very premise of a grandiose and beckoning exterior that the hospitality sector rests on has been turned on its head via a completely inward-looking concrete box with its intriguing bar-coded skin which sports the view of a commanding concrete block perforated to resemble some kind of bar code.
