Sleeperz Hotel Cardiff
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Hotel on triangular shaped site next to Cardiff Central Station
Designed to terminate the station frontage, the six-storey, 74 bedroom hotel, is situated next to an operational railway line.
The ground floor, which is enclosed with a mixture of full-height glazing and solid walls faced with dark blue/black tiling, contains the hotel's public spaces; reception, bar, lounge and breakfast room. Below this the lower ground floor contains services spaces, six fully accessable rooms and provides access to a small courtyard placed next to the railway arches.
Above this glazed setback a four storey volume sheathed in smooth pale beige limestone contains small 'stylish' rooms double loaded along a corridor with a single core. A full height backlit steel sign aligned along one edge, faces back towards the station
The hotel has no staff or visitor car parking.
Data
- Begun: Jul 2007
- Completed: Nov 2008
- Floor area: 1,632m2
- Sector: Hotel
- Total cost: £4.6M
- Procurement: JCT 1998 with Contractor’s Design (Amended)
- Address: Station Approach, Saunders Road, Cardiff, CF10 1RH, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Clash Architects
- Client: Sleeperz Hotels
- Structural engineer: Techniker
- M&E engineer: Hulley and Kirkwood
- Quantity surveyor: Davis Langdon
- Acoustic engineer: Sandy Brown Associates
- Highways Consultant: Savell Bird & Axon
- Main contractor: Cowlin Construction
- Contractor's architect: Holder Mathias Architects
- Structural engineer: R V Williams Associates
- Services engineer: Neptune Building Services
- Acoustics: Sharps Redmore Partnership
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