Following the successful debuts of Andaz Liverpool Street in London and Andaz West Hollywood in California, opening Andaz Wall Street is the first step in the brand’s expansion into New York. A second New York hotel, Andaz 5th Avenue, is slated to open in late 2010 and Andaz San Diego will open on February 1, 2010, in the hotel currently known as the Ivy Hotel.
Designed by New York-based architect and designer David Rockwell and Rockwell Group, Andaz Wall Street features warm saturated color, natural materials, and open spaces throughout the 13 floors of the hotel. At Andaz Wall Street, a sculptural pearlescent steel and stone staircase is the central experience of the public spaces linking the Andaz Studio level to the lounge, bar, and then to the restaurant. The lounge is paneled in two-tone bamboo, and the tabletops are made of veined marble. A tree design is hand-stenciled on the wall by the elevator bank.
The hotel features 253 guestrooms measuring 345 square feet, making them some of the largest hotel rooms in New York City. The hotel features loft-like ceilings and seven feet windows. The rooms have simple aesthetics, boasting dark-stained oak floors, buttery brown leather headboards and benches, and lavender and camel sitting chairs. Other modern details include textured walls, bleached wood accents, and locally-crafted, stenciled metal artwork designed by a Brussels-based artist. The spacious bathrooms are covered in black marble, and feature rainfall showerheads, while some have deep soaking tubs.
Additionally, many rooms have a customized personal valet, a rotating closet that can open either into the bathroom or the bed chamber, and innovatively incorporates a hanging area, full-length mirror, mini-bar and other storage elements.
Set in a room that stretches the full-length of the hotel, the restaurant Wall & Water features large windows opening onto striking views of the East River. The main dining area is furnished with live-edge wooden tables and beautiful glass and iron lighting fixtures. At one end, a 12-guest chef’s table is sheltered behind the open kitchen, and at the opposite end a private dining and meeting room, with views of the garden below, is featured.
Hotel guests will have access to a park just beside the building designed by a local landscape architect. The hotel features a gym, the SPA, and the Andaz Studio – a meeting space that is unique to Andaz hotels.
Hyatt, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, owns and develops hotels and resorts under the brand names Grand Hyatt, Park Hyatt, Hyatt Place, Hyatt Summerfield Suites, Hyatt Resorts, Hyatt Regency and Andaz.
