The Zetter

The London Evening Standard has described the Zetter as "*the* venue to book into in the capital." It is the only London hotel to appear on the prestigious Conde Nast Traveller's 50 best new hotels in the world, ranking alongside a select group of elite hotels such as The Glasshouse in Edinburgh, Monaco & Grand Canal in Venice, Soho House in New York, and the Grand Hyatt in Tokyo.

Conde Nast Traveller describes the hotel as achieving "a quiet sense of drama, light and space in a relatively small building."

The building, formerly a warehouse occupied by Zetter's football pools, has now now been transformed into the vision of Mark Sainsbury and Michael Benyan of London's Moro restaurant.

The existing structure comprised load-bearing masonry external walls supported on stepped masonry footings; internally cast iron columns with pad foundations supported wrought iron beams and timber floors.

The conversion works involved structural alterations to the building. The roof slab was originally constructed in concrete but this was removed and a new steel frame and timber joisted floor constructed. A north/south central masonry spine wall splits the building into two sections. Other alterations included a single storey extension to the roof, a mezzanine office, plant support platforms and plinths, new stairs, risers and builderswork holes through floors and walls, atrium floor infill and balustrade, alterations to pavement lights, installation of dumb waiters, and construction of internal walls.

Now packed with architectural design features such as the five-floor central atrium rising to a glass roof, and a swish Italian restaurant, the hotel also offers a range of high-tech facilities to customers such as Internet and DVD/CD players.

The hotel has 57 bedrooms, seven of which are top-floor studios with outdoor decks.