The most sustainable thing to do for the planet is probably to avoid travelling much; but if travel seems inevitable, planning a journey in the most eco-friendly way is definitely the way to go. If you\u2019re London bound, the newest offering in the Inhabit family, the chain\u2019s Queen\u2019s Gardens location...
Inhabit Queen’s Gardens, the newly opened hospitality destination in west London, is a sustainable hotel design by architects Holland Harvey
For the architecture studio behind it, headed by Richard Holland and Jonathan Harvey, this was not the first foray into hotel design – they were also behind Inhabit’s other London location, in Paddington. But it’s the first time they have been able to take their sustainability ambitions to this level, working with the more environmentally friendly overall approach of restoration and redesign .
The property’s sustainable hotel design credentials are impressive, spanning the fact that just under 100 per cent of waste from construction was diverted from landfill via recycling initiatives or reused, in elements such as the Granby Rock custom-made terrazzo used on the fireplace ; the use of eco-friendly surfaces and materials such as carefully sourced timber, paper-based fibre composite Richlite, and cork; and a focus on locally sourced furniture, including elements created by social...
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