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Metropole Hotel (Shanghai)
Hotel Metropol or Hotel Metropole may refer to: United Kingdom * Hotel Metropole, Leeds * Hilton Birmingham Metropole, the largest hotel in England outside London * Hilton Brighton Metropole, a 4-star hotel and conference centre located on the seafront in Brighton, East Sussex * Metropole Hotel, London United States * Hotel Metropole (New York City), the first hotel in New York City that had running water in every room * Hotel Metropole (Cincinnati, Ohio) * Hotel Metropole (Santa Cruz, California), built in 1908, added to the National Register of Historical Places in 1979, demolished after being severely damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake Other places * Hotel Metropole, Brussels, built in 1895, the only 19th-century hotel in Brussels still in operation today * Hotel Metropole, Dublin, a former landmark closed in 1972 * Hotel Métropole Geneva, a hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, opened in 1854. * Hotel Metropole, Monte Carlo, built in 1886 * Hotel Metropole, Vienna, a hotel i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Metropole, Leeds
The Met Hotel is a Grade II listed building situated on King Street in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Designed by Leeds-based architects Harry Sutton Chorley and J.W. Connon, the hotel opened in 1899 as the Hotel Metropole. The Principal Hayley Group renovated the hotel in 2005, at a cost of £6 million, and changed the name to the trendier sounding 'The Met'. It has star (classification), four stars and it has 120 rooms. The Hotel Metropole is a listed building, principally because of its rare and remarkable Victorian architecture, Victorian terracotta facade. The cupola on the roof was taken from the demolished 4th White Cloth Hall, built in 1868 on the same site. Television *The hotel served as the fictional 'Marble Arch Hotel' in the hit 1991 miniseries ''The Darling Buds of May (TV series), The Darling Buds of May''. References External links The Principal Met Hotel official site * Grade II listed buildings in Leeds Grade II listed hotels Hotels in Leeds Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneva
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated in the south west of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva. The city of Geneva () had a population 201,818 in 2019 (Jan. estimate) within its small municipal territory of , but the Canton of Geneva (the city and its closest Swiss suburbs and exurbs) had a population of 499,480 (Jan. 2019 estimate) over , and together with the suburbs and exurbs located in the canton of Vaud and in the French departments of Ain and Haute-Savoie the cross-border Geneva metropolitan area as officially defined by Eurostat, which extends over ,As of 2020, the Eurostat-defined Functional Urban Area of Geneva was made up of 93 Swiss communes and 158 French communesFederal Statistical O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi is a five-star historic luxury hotel, opened in 1901 as Grand Métropole Hotel in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. It is today one of the most important buildings of Vietnam in French colonial style. The hotel today has 364 rooms. History 1900s In 1899, Gustave-Émile Dumoutier files a request to convert the buildings on his land at the corner of boulevard Henri-Rivière into a hotel. The extra capital of 500,000 francs is provided by businessman André Ducamp. The Grand Métropole Hôtel is opened in August 1901 by André Ducamp and Gustave-Émile Dumoutier, operated by the Cie Française Immobilière. On 2 August in 1904 Gustave-Émile Dumoutier, partner of Andre Ducamp, dies. The hotel is managed by the professional manager, Frenchman Edouard Lion. It is regarded by visitors as ‚a luxurious, though expensive abode‘. 1910s By 1916, the Metropole becomes the first venue in Indo-China to show motion pictures. 1930s During 1930 and 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropol Palace Hotel Belgrade
Hotel Metropol Palace, until 2007 known as Hotel Metropol ( sr, Хотел Метропол), is a five-star hotel in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. The hotel was opened in 1957 and the building, projected by Dragiša Brašovan, has been declared a cultural monument in 2001. Location The hotel is located at the corner of the Bulevar kralja Aleksandra and ''Karnegijeva'' street, in the municipality of Palilula. North and west of the hotel, in the same block, are the Little Tašmajdan, easternmost extension of the Tašmajdan park, and the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, respectively. East of the hotel, right across the ''Karnegijeva'' are the Archive of Serbia, Belgrade University Library and the complex of the university's technical faculties: Architecture, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Technology and Metallurgy. Some of the attractions in the vicinity include the Church of St. Mark, the Vukov Spomenik area and the Slavija Square but due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Metropol (Moscow)
The Hotel Metropol Moscow (russian: Метропо́ль, ) is a historic hotel in the center of Moscow, Russia, built in 1899–1905 in Art Nouveau style. It is notable as the largest extant Moscow hotel built before the Russian Revolution of 1917, and for the unique collaboration of architects ( William Walcot, Lev Kekushev, Vladimir Shukhov) and artists (Mikhail Vrubel, Alexander Golovin, Nikolai Andreev). Since 2012, the hotel has been owned by Alexander Klyachin, who also is proprietor of the Moscow-based Azimut Hotels chain. History In 1898, Savva Mamontov and Petersburg Insurance consolidated a large lot of land around the former Chelyshev Hotel. Mamontov, manager and sponsor of Private Opera, intended to redevelop the area into a large cultural center built around an opera hall. Mamontov eventually hired Kekushev as a construction manager. Soon, Savva Mamontov was jailed for fraud and the project was taken over by Petersburg Insurance, omitting the opera hall tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Metropole, Ipswich
Hotel Metropole is a heritage-listed hotel at 253 Brisbane Street, West Ipswich, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by George Brockwell Gill and built in 1906. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History The two storey brick hotel was constructed in 1906 to the design of prominent Ipswich architect George Brockwell Gill. In 1915 part of the surrounding property was resumed by the Queensland Railways Department. In 1925 the brewers Perkins & Co took over the lease until 1935 as part of a widespread accumulation of hotels by the company throughout Queensland. When Perkins & Co merged with Castlemaine in 1928 to form Castlemaine Perkins the brewery held licences for 19 freehold hotels and 50 leasehold hotels including the Hotel Metropole in Ipswich. The architect, George Brockwell Gill, designed many of the grand residences and public buildings in Ipswich from the 1880s to the 1930s. Some of his works include "Brynhy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Metropole, Vienna
Hotel Metropole was a hotel in Vienna, Austria that was constructed in 1871–73. It was destroyed during World War II after serving as the Vienna headquarters of the Gestapo from 1938. The address was Morzinplatz, in the I. District Innere Stadt. History The hotel was built for the Vienna World Exhibition and was designed by Carl Schumann and Ludwig Tischler. The four-story building was richly decorated with Corinthian columns, caryatids and atlases. The inner court was glassed over and had a richly decorated dining hall. After the '' Anschluss'' of Austria to Nazi Germany in March 1938, the hotel was confiscated by the Gestapo who made it their headquarters. With a staff of 900 (80 per cent of whom were recruited from the Austrian police), it was the largest Gestapo office outside of Berlin. Many people, especially Jews, were interrogated or tortured there. During the war the building was hit by a bomb and burned down and ultimately the ruins were demolished to elimina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Metropole, Monte Carlo
The Hotel Metropole Monte-Carlo, is a five-star hotel at 4, Avenue De La Madone, Monte Carlo, Monaco. History The Hotel Metropole was built in 1889, designed by Hans-Georg Tersling. Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark died there in 1944. Italian-American television host Mike Bongiorno died there in 2009. Lebanese developer Nabil Boustany bought the hotel from the British Grand Metropolitan group in 1980. Boustany spent $140 million gutting and rebuilding the aging hotel into a modern luxury hotel. The hotel reopened in 1988 as Le Metropole Palace. The opening was attended by Prince Rainier, Prince Albert and Princess Stephanie. The hotel was operated by Conrad Hotels, the international division of Hilton Hotels Hilton Hotels & Resorts (formerly known as Hilton Hotels) is a global brand of full-service hotels and resorts and the flagship brand of American multinational hospitality company Hilton. The original company was founded by Conrad Hilton. As .... In September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Métropole Geneva
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a flat screen television, and en-suite bathrooms. Small, lower-priced hotels may offer only the most basic guest services and facilities. Larger, higher-priced hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, business centre (with computers, printers, and other office equipment), childcare, conference and event facilities, tennis or basketball courts, gymnasium, restaurants, day spa, and social function services. Hotel rooms are usually numbered (or named in some smaller hotels and B&Bs) to allow guests to identify their room. Some boutique, high-end hotels have custom decorated rooms. Some hotels offer meals as part of a room and board arrangement. In Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilton Birmingham Metropole
The Hilton Birmingham Metropole is the largest hotel in England outside London – with 790 rooms and suites, and approximately of conference halls. History The Birmingham Metropole hotel opened in 1976. The current hotel was originally built as two adjacent hotels. The Warwick block was originally called the Warwick Hotel. The hotels remained separate until 1987–88 when they were connected by a glazed tunnel and the two hotels were merged under the Metropole brand. The hotels were operated by Metropole Hotels until 1996 when Lonrho sold the chain to Stakis Hotels, which renamed the hotel Stakis Birmingham Metropole. Ladbroke bought Stakis in 1999 and rebranded the 48 Stakis Hotels within their Hilton Hotels brand, with the property renamed Hilton Birmingham Metropole. Hilton sold the hotel, along with the Hilton London Metropole, to the Tonstate Group in 2006 for £417m. Tonstate sold the two properties to Henderson Park for £500 million in 2017. Renovations The Kings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Metropole, Dublin
The Hotel Metropole (''The Met'') was a notable landmark hotel in Dublin, Ireland. It was located next to the General Post Office building in O'Connell Street. Originally four Georgian buildings, they were combined to form a unified hotel in a high-french style by architect William M. Mitchell in 1891–93. Various architectural additions and embellishments were included to make the building look more French including a mansard roof with rounded dormer windows. This followed the style other Dublin hotels were adopting at the time including the Shelbourne Hotel and nearby the Jury's Hotel at College Green. The building was badly damaged during the Easter Rising and the remains were ultimately demolished. The hotel's owners received significant compensation following the final report of the Property Losses (Ireland) Committee. In 1922, a neoclassical building, designed by Aubrey V. O'Rourke, was built out of the ruins - ''The Metropole'' - and this building included a cinem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Metropole, Brussels
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a flat screen television, and en-suite bathrooms. Small, lower-priced hotels may offer only the most basic guest services and facilities. Larger, higher-priced hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, business centre (with computers, printers, and other office equipment), childcare, conference and event facilities, tennis or basketball courts, gymnasium, restaurants, day spa, and social function services. Hotel rooms are usually numbered (or named in some smaller hotels and B&Bs) to allow guests to identify their room. Some boutique, high-end hotels have custom decorated rooms. Some hotels offer meals as part of a room and board arrangement. In Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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