Surprising how manky the expensive Alex Hotel building is already looking! This boring piece, somehow beloved by Perth architects, started off crappy and will resemble a mouldy piece of bread in a year or so. Is that a piss or rust stain? Can someone tell me what’s supposed to be good about it. I assume the interior is good?
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The Asia Beat
The Worst of Perth 
Here’s a review by the luvvies , imitating a clandestine branch of the advertising industry.
http://architectureau.com/articles/alex-hotel/
[ArchitectureAU is the national magazine of the Australian Institute of Architects]
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Good lord. A prime example of the “We’re going to like this thing, whatever it is” school of broker-babble.
I particularly loved their raptures over the use of textiles. And rugs. And the sofa. And the lamp.
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I think it’s the most expensive hotel in town.
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COMO : The Treasury.
http://tinyurl.com/PerthsMostExpensiveHotel
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i think you would get your money’s worth there.
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what’s good about it is that a city can’t be truly vibrant until it contains a selection of establishments that locals can’t afford to frequent.
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In that case kudos.
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hugely funky interior. no tea making facilities or fridge in very expensive rooms, but you can use the communal ‘pantry’ on the first floor to make tea. no storage for clothes, but the bathrooms are lovely.
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Did your award-winning partner surprise you with a night there?
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my multi-award winning partner?
no, not a surprise, a planned celebration
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Is communal “pantry” code for some dogging action?
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Surely one of the attractions of dogging is that it’s free?
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it’s code for hipster wank.
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Well you get a butler at the Como!
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yeah, see; they’re performing kind of a public service
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Perhaps if you spent less money on piña coladas in Lot 20 you could afford a night in the Alex. Priorities.
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Pffft. Last time we were there it was hard getting service for a drink.
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Yes. We had that experience too.
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Tilt up concrete house of cards utter tripe……. It has tacky Perth written all over it. By the way, while I’m here, I’d like to ask whether or not it was just a nasty rumour started by an equally nasty person that the ‘Conference Centre’ was soon to be demolished and that the public were welcome to come and sneer and cheer just as they did when the ‘Taj on Swan’ bit the dust? After that day has come and gone, I feel I might die somewhat a happy man.
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You can’t lay blame for this at the door of Curtin Architecure. The architectural team of Spaceagency consists of representatives of Curtin , UWA and Stuttgart.
http://www.spaceagency.com.au/studio/michaelpatroni/
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Architects have a lot to answer for here in WA .
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It has (did have) a communal Bloody Mary station. Where you’d expect to have some Milo and old Arnotts selections, there were selections of tomato juice and celery sticks.
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I’m not against that. But surely a mojito station?
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Piss stain
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Shredism
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No… upper middle bogan for the design-degreed
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