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Radisson Blu Hotel, Cologne
Cologne, Germany · Radisson Blu · Near Luxury
In March 2003 Erich Grimbacher opened a V-shaped hotel in Deutz, opposite Koelnmesse: a frameless glass lobby held between limestone wings, and 393 rooms looking either toward the cathedral or into the courtyard garden. It was Radisson SAS then, the brand's first Cologne house. Bert Haller dressed the lobby like a stage, tall red curtains, a palisander desk, and a basalt-lava pizza oven in Paparazzi. The arena is a short walk, and the old town is across the Rhine.
- 393 rooms
- Opened 2003
- Neighborhood: Deutz
- Architect: Erich Grimbacher
- Interiors: Bert Haller
About Radisson Blu Hotel, Cologne
- Pronto, the all-day kitchen, sets a long dark stone buffet on a bamboo floor, with a silk light in orange-red hung above it.
- The project cost about 80 million euros, with Infra Immobilien of Wuppertal as investor. At the opening the general manager called it Cologne's second-largest hotel.
- Grimbacher's office had won an invited competition for the Deutz complex. A second phase, offices and conference rooms around an elliptical hall, held its topping-out in May 2003, after the hotel was already open.
History
Radisson Blu Hotel, Cologne opened in March 2003 as the Radisson SAS Hotel at Messe Kreisel 3 in Deutz, designed by Erich Grimbacher with interiors by Bert Haller of k/h. The V-shaped block, glass lobby and limestone facade, was an 80 million euro project for Infra Immobilien of Wuppertal and Rezidor's first Cologne house, with 393 rooms.
The setting
Messe Kreisel 3, 50679 Köln-Deutz, opposite Koelnmesse and a short walk from the LANXESS arena, which opened as the Kölnarena. Köln Messe/Deutz station is the train stop. The cathedral is a view across the Rhine, not a neighbor on the same bank.
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