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Location: San Antonio, Texas

Interior Designer: Mark Zeff (Principle); Stacie Meador (Director of Interior Design); Francesca McCulloch (Project Architect)

Architect: Lake Flato Architects & Gensler

Hotel Group/Developer: Hilton

Photographer: Eric Laignel

Canopy by Hilton San Antonio Riverwalk Hotel has a restaurant, lobby, lounge, pre-function meeting rooms, fitness centre, exterior canopy central bar and 195 guestrooms comprised of typical kings/queens and suites. The design is a mix between old and new; MARKZEFF took the remanence of a 19th century building, using materials from the old building into the new design and mixed modern interior elements along with the historical elements.

Canopy San Antonio is a new build project in collaboration with Lake Flato Architects & Gensler. Using industrial elegance in combination with the remains of the 19th-century building, the team crafted this site that sits on the San Antonio Riverwalk. This resource with huge hundred-year-old Cypress trees overhanging the waterway and almost touching the new building adds to the splendor of this site. Using the old parts of the original building to influence the interior style throughout was the key design mission.

The building itself stands out in the Riverwalk environment as a modern building, with the Riverwalk level integrating the historic original elements into the lower level to blend into the surroundings. Artisan skills were used on the project through the use of historic stone and masonry which were reconstructed into walls in the lower level, along with historic beams that were used in the ceiling in the Riverwalk and lobby levels.