AKA has formed partnership with Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni of Lissoni & Partners and Lissoni New York to lead the design transformation of its recently acquired property, the Roger New York.
In a statement, Lissoni said the hotel would be his idea of a New York that encompasses music, life, silence, snow, traffic and energy, but always accompanied by elegance and diversity. “It will not be conformist, but will be a hotel that will narrate and speak with a certain style, a little art-deco, a little 50’s…and then we’ll see."
The 194-room boutique hotel in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan is slated for a spring 2022 reopening. The project will serve as Lissoni’s first-ever hotel project in the U.S.
More details of the design will be shared in the coming months.