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The Hotel Brussels
Brussels, Belgium · Independent · Near Luxury
On 24 April 1967 the New York Times watched the Brussels Hilton open ten days early, puddle in the lobby and all: Hilton's 39th hotel, 301 rooms in the 27-storey tower Henri Montois and Emmanuel Gran drew for Boulevard de Waterloo. Pandox bought the house in 2010 and on 1 February 2011 renamed it The Hotel, then finished a 32 million euro renovation in 2013. Barack Obama slept here on 25 March 2014, with The Iris looking onto Parc d'Egmont and the Urban Spa by CODAGE up on the 25th floor.
- 431 rooms
- Opened 1967
- Neighborhood: Sablon - Zavel
- Architect: Henri Montois and Emmanuel Gran
- Interiors: GCA Architects Barcelona
About The Hotel Brussels
- Richard Nixon stayed at the Brussels Hilton in 1969 while in town for a NATO council, decades before the tower dropped the Hilton name.
- GCA Architects of Barcelona redesigned the rooms in the renovation finished in 2013, replacing the desk with a long sofa under the window.
- At 94 metres and 27 storeys, the tower is the highest public viewpoint in Brussels, and city officials left it off the list of high-rises they wanted pulled down.
- The Suite covers 125 square metres, with a private dining room, a California king, and a key to the Panorama Lounge on the 24th floor.
- The Urban Spa by CODAGE takes 400 square metres on the 25th floor, with a hammam and saunas, while the gym sits on the 23rd.
History
The Hotel Brussels is a 27-storey modernist tower at 38 Boulevard de Waterloo, near the Sablon district in central Brussels. Designed by architects Henri Montois and Emmanuel Gran (with Louis Aerts as operational architect during construction), the functionalist tower opened in 1967 as the Brussels Hilton, one of the Belgian capital's first international high-rise hotels, rising some 94 metres and originally combining the hotel with around 10,000 square metres of offices and a luxury retail gallery.
After its Hilton era, the property was repositioned as an independent luxury hotel under the name The Hotel Brussels. It now offers a large room inventory (reported at over 400 rooms) along with an on-site art gallery, The Iris restaurant, the Urban Spa by CODAGE on the 25th floor and a 24-hour fitness centre. It hosted US President Barack Obama during his March 2014 visit to Brussels.
Restaurants and bars
- The Iris — Restaurant · International
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