Anantara Algarve (Tivoli Victoria)
Located in the golfing heart of the Algarve, the Anantara Victoria is a golf-dedicated hotel facing the Victoria golf course (hence the name), and surrounded by two other courses. This quasi-symmetrical building is formed by a main central building and two bedroom wings generating a U-shape facing west. The programme comprises a total of 184-twin and 79-double guestrooms —in addition to 14-junior and 2-executive suites, in addition to a presidential suite with private rooftop pool and garden. Furthermore, it includes a large conference facility, with a capacity for 950 people, which was carefully laid out in order to preserve the undisturbed life of the hotel.
The arrival experience begins with the entry square. With its three independent entrances and stone arcade, its function is to separate the guest fluxes coming as groups, or for conferences, into the lateral canopies, releasing the monumental porte-cochère for the individual visitors. The impressive two-storey lobby offers direct views to the golf course. From there, guests can descend towards the exterior pools and bars, or go up to the fine-dining restaurant and the Spa.
Meticulously detailed in fine stonework, solid wood and handmade ceramics, the building echoes the spirit of prewar grand hotels, as it aspires to a contemporary rethinking of that classical splendour. The façade system is a stereotomic composition of massive yellow limestone blocks, white precast concrete lintels and light-gold anodized aluminium frames. Also in precast concrete, and as part of the façade composition, the artist Pedro Calapez designed and moulded a series of decorative bas-reliefs.
