Four hundred years at the location This is the second hotel that architect Nicole Lam has built in Graz for art collector, motor racing legend and investor Helmut Marko. The Lendhotel completed in 2017 (architektur.aktuell 4/2018) placed a new urban planning accent in the Lend district of Graz and closed off to the north an angular site between Wiener Strasse and Zeilergasse. This hotel not only enriches urban space with an attractive focus but redefines it within one of its areas most open to change. In contrast, the project recently completed on Kaiser-Franz-Josef Kai dispenses with any form of intervention in the appearance of the city. It revitalises an ensemble first mentioned in documents in 1596 that is made up of a main building, courtyard wing and an ancillary building. Thanks to its two-storey half-hipped gable this building can be easily identified in the well-known engraving that Andreas Trost made of the east side of Graz one hundred years later. The hotel stands in a row of buildings that connects in the north to the town centre and nestles against the rock face of the Schlossberg. Back then it did not yet have the striking shed roof dormer.
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