The building is located at one end of the Bellvitge industrial estate, next to Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes. The position it occupies favours its role as a driving force of the urban renewal of the area and, being located perpendicular to the highway, it avoids being a visual obstacle for the homes of Bellvitge and creates a new urban façade on the promenade that it itself generates. This fact implies the removal of a historical scar, by the disappearance of the condition of the motorway as the physical border of the territory. The program is distributed between the tall building, which houses the hotel, and a long plinth that houses the Congress Centre and the Sports Club. The union between these two bodies takes place through a glazed atrium spanning six floors. The tower clearly separates all the structural and communication elements from the functional spaces, to keep the spaces dedicated to the rooms open.
Located in the residential neighbourhood of Bellvitge (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat), the Hesperia Tower is an example of urban regeneration and a contemporary hotel. The new flagship of the Hesperia chain -and at the same time its most emblematic and innovative project-, this Hotel is an avant-garde skyscraper with a double role (social and urban), which generates growth and territorial planning around it. A building has been conceived that has already become a benchmark for the skyline of Barcelona and its metropolitan area. Its tower, 105 metres and 29 stories high, topped with an impressive glass dome with a futuristic image, is a visual icon of the city.
The hotel has 280 luxury rooms, 12 duplex suites with Jacuzzi in the bedroom, 7 executive suites and a presidential suite. It also has a 5,000-metre Convention and Congress Center (adaptable to multiple halls with a maximum simultaneous capacity of 2,500 people and an auditorium), an innovative sports club and high-level urban spa, the Metropolitan Gran Vía, as well as the new Hesperia Hotels central offices in an annex building.
The Hesperia Tower is the contemporary hotel, the clients of which are looking for an establishment with an extensive program and a strategic location. In a world where travel takes up unwanted time, its location a few minutes from the airport and the port of Barcelona, as well as from the city itself, in one of its most important accesses, provides added value. Its design is also characteristic, as is the not at all casual choice of its location and its architects. The Hesperia Tower is also a hotel for those who, when traveling, seek spaces of great architectural value and great benefits.
The outsourcing of all the elements of vertical communication (elevators, stairs, freight elevators), as well as the installation ducts, frees up the floor for hoteliers in its entirety, while turning such elements into authentic vibrant sculptures. Highly complex technological solutions such as the upper restaurant 'Evo' (with the kitchen by Santi Santamaría), the glass-enclosed atrium braced by cables and the suspended slabs on floors 2 and 4, provide a plus of quality to the complex. This entails an open plan, flexible and adaptable to any change of use and functional program in the future.
