Hotels

Laguna Palace Hotel

Mestre (VE) | Italy

PROJECT DETAILS

City

Mestre (VE)

Country

Italy

Customer

Venezia Futura S.r.l.

Architectural design

dhk Architects, Studio Marco Piva, T.I. Soc. Coop. Arl; Tommasin Engineering

Period

1998-2002

Amount of works

36.150.000 €

Services Provided

Structures design | Facilities design | Construction management | Safety coordination | Project management

Sector

Hotels

Dimensions

50,000 square meters

Gateway to Venice

Two volumes of six floors each, separated by a dock and connected by a large glass and steel tensile structure that protects the body of water and the pleasure boats that access it. A complex that rises at the gates of Venice and houses a hotel with 500 beds, a residence with 100 apartments, and a conference center with a capacity of more than 600 seats.

Gateway to Venice

The largest glass and steel flat roof in Europe

The Laguna Palace Hotel stands near the center of Mestre and is connected to the lagoon and island Venice by the Salso Canal waterway. The complex consists of two buildings of six floors each, placed symmetrically on opposite sides of a dock thanks to which the facility can also be accessed directly from the water. The first building houses a luxury hotel with 500 beds and a conference center with a capacity of 640 people, while the second consists of a residence consisting of 100 suites, beneath which are two floors of underground parking.

The two buildings are separated by a 56-meter-wide stretch of water, topped by what, at the time of its construction, was Europe's largest flat glass-and-steel roof: an 8,000-square-meter tensile structure that connects the two buildings, creating an arch conceived as a gateway connecting Mestre and Venice via water. The tensile structure is suspended on 49-meter-high corner pylons and traction cables, and the design of the structural elements supporting it originates from the floating shipyard cranes that characterize the Venice skyline.