Tivoli Avenida Liberdade was listed among the Top 10 Best Hotels 2018 by UK newspaper The Telegraph (receiving 9/10 rating) and received two awards from travel guide Fodor’s, which selected the hotel as one of eight in the Portuguese capital for Spectacular Views and named its Sky Bar one of Lisbon's Best Hotel Bars.
Creating a hotel with unrivaled panache and style
Broadway Malyan was commissioned to remodel the group’s flagship 5-star property in the centre of Lisbon. Located on the famous Avenida da Liberdade, the brief was to redesign all front-of-house areas including the lobby, spa, gym, sky bar, executive lounge and 250 guest rooms. The intervention was designed to update and refresh the classic style of the hotel using a range of concepts that focused on emphasising its historic glamour while retaining its strong Lisbon identity with the blues of the sky and river inspiring the entire project.
The voluminous lobby serves as the centrepiece of the historic hotel. It has been revitalised with a new glazed ceiling, flooding the space with natural light and framing the city’s distinctive blue sky. At the heart of the lobby, a spectacular interior garden has been created, new gold screens and long blue velvet curtains in every corner enhance the luxurious aesthetic and ambience of this transformed space.
The selected fabrics, predominantly velvet with varied patterns, perfectly balance the classic and contemporary. Strategically placed artworks add a touch of restrained sophistication, elevating the overall design.
This approach is continued in the refurbished guest rooms where contemporary furniture pieces are complimented with high quality materials such as marble, gold metal and leather and a neutral colour scheme with hints of blue.
The project saw the creation of a new executive lounge for the exclusive use of the hotel’s VIP guests. Bedecked in noble materials such as Calacatta marble, velvets and sucupira wood, the luxurious space offers the calm of a library and the under-stated grandeur of a Gentleman’s Club.
"Our approach is very much about refreshing and accentuating the hotel’s existing classic style with a series of contemporary interventions and installations."
Margarida Caldeira, Practice Principal, Broadway Malyan
The new restaurant is inspired by the concept of ´cervejaria portuguesa’ or Portuguese brewery with a large central counter of emperor marble and sucupira wood at the heart of the new design. Large screens and a wine cellar have been introduced to give this space a new character while the existing elements of wood columns and chandeliers reference the hotel’s original decor.
The charismatic new restaurant offers an intimate atmosphere to rival anything the Portuguese capital has to offer.
The completely renewed SkyBar offers a unique perspective over one of the Europe’s great cities. A new curved staircase creates a spectacular new arrival to the rooftop terrace while the backlit bar area creates a new central focas with straight lines of the mainly white furniture offers a symetrical counterpoint to curves of the staircase and bar. The new toilets offer an artistic intervention in the space, painted by a portuguese artist to provide a contemporary contrast from the rest of the hotel.
