Radisson SAS Iveria Hotel
Project type: Hotel, Highrise
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia
Time: 2008
Client: Development Solutions
Status: Completed
Size: 34,200 sqm
The Radisson SAS Iveria Hotel designed by GRAFT celebrated its Grand Opening on October 23rd, 2009. The conversion of a 60‘s hotel high rise building into a five star Radissons SAS Iveria Hotel accommodates 249 rooms, including 44 Business Class rooms, 15 Suites and one Executive Suite, Italian Restaurant Filini, Surface Restaurant and Lounge Bar, a conference centre with fully equipped 10 meeting rooms including divisible Ballroom with a maximum capacity of 450 persons, a bank office and a travel agency. A two-floor roof top ANNE SEMONIN spa and wellness facility and the roof top Oxygen Bar provide stunning views over the city of Tbilisi and to the Caucasus. A two-level Casino Iveria is affiliated to the hotel.
The project’s goal is to transform an urban landmark building of the so-called international style by anchoring it in the local environment of the city centre and by reconnecting it to the world of today. The Iveria Hotel is a beacon of optimism for the future of Georgia, reassuring its own incomparable tradition, identity and self confidence, this project reinvents living culture without neglecting its close history, -a real GRAFTing. (Text by GRAFT)