KIOUS KELLY H+ HOTEL

NEW YORK, NY — 2021 I CIELO CORTES

2021 ANNA BLANC VERNA AWARD RECIPIENT For Excellence in Interior Design

H+ HOTEL is a unique space where hospitality and healthcare are merged in one place. The hotel is inspired by the original structure of the Marine Air Terminal designed by the firm Delano & Aldrich in the 1940’s. It thrives out of the necessity to preserve and respect designs that have historical value. Delineated by the inclusion of NATURE which brings the outdoors indoors, providing improvements to building performance, as well using biophilia and healthy materials that will not only help with aesthetics but it will respond to the salutogenic principles of human health and wellbeing. The use of geometry and symmetry will embrace the concept of MOVEMENT.

In light of the global public health concerns at the time, it was appropriate to re-imagine hospitality spaces to be more responsive during moments of collective need.

“The Kious Kelly H+ Hotel is named to honor Kious Kelly and other New Yorkers like him. He was an assistant nurse manager in Manhattan who helped COVID-19 patients and then became the city’s first health care worker to die from the virus.”