The first hotel developed within the Titanic Quarter and 6th Premier Inn in Northern Ireland opened on the 8th November 2010. The £7.1m development provides 122 rooms and a 96 seat restaurant directly behind the Odyssey Arena at the entrance to the Titanic Quarter by Queens Road. The six storey wood, zinc and concrete clad hotel building is designed by Robinson McIlwaine Architects to form a continuation of the Abercorn Residential Complex.

Robinson McIlwaine Architect's Design Concept reads...
The 121 room, six storey hotel is adjacent to and forms a continuation of the Abercorn Residential Complex. The hotel design maintains the architectural language of the residential component of the site with the same palette of materials: timber, pre-cast concrete and zinc. Similarly, the building footprint continues the curved profile of Queen's Road integrating with the elevation of the neighbouring building. The façade facing the Abercorn Basin is clad in precast concrete panels with projecting fins to each window to provide a visual screen from the residential units. An important vista from Queens Road through to the Abercorn Basin is maintained by raising the western end of the hotel up on 4 no. two storey high columns. This allows a visual and pedestrian link to be maintained across the site and results in a dramatic building form at the western entrance to Titanic Quarter.

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