Thursday 29 November 2018

Is CitizenM’s LES modular hotel a gamechanger for prefab construction?

The new 246-foot-tall CitizenM New York Bowery Hotel on the Lower East Side has set a new bar for hospitality construction. Despite a relatively quiet grand opening in late September, it’s now the world’s tallest prefabricated hotel. Rob Wagemans, the Dutch hotel brand’s creative director and chief architect, described modular construction — where rooms are made in a factory before being shipped to a job site for assembly — as part of “the DNA of […]



source https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/citizenm-prefab-building-nyc/#new_tab

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