Broadway Malyan was responsible for the architecture and interiors of Portugal’s first Moxy Hotel, an emerging hotel brand from the Marriott stable aimed at the Millennial generation, which opened in 2021.

In keeping with the brand’s ethos and aspirations, the innovative design of the hotel focused on creating the best guest experience with a particular focus on a lobby area that would be the beating heart of the hotel.

The double-height ground-floor space sits below a semi-open car park that acts as a buffer between the lobby and the elevated guest rooms, ensuring views across the river from every room while also allowing the lobby to become a leisure and entertainment space without impacting the guest room experience.

The podium of the hotel is wrapped in a façade of vertical columns that provide a screen to shade both the lobby and car park while also projecting a constantly changing lined shadow that animates the space as the sun moves around the building.

In the heart of the lobby is the food and drink area with a range of high tables and sculptured wooden tables and an F&B wall with different food stations where guests can source and prepare a range of different food options.

Key decorative features throughout the lobby will be decorative tiles with contemporary designs that reference traditional Portuguese patterns and major pieces of street art covering the large interior walls, which will be created on-site by local artists.

Overlooking the lobby is a mezzanine with multi-space rooms, including a gym and a plug-in space, a meeting place where guests can work, meet or chat on communal tables or the mix of comfortable sofas and chairs.