The Dorchester is a luxury hotel on Park Lane in London, overlooking Hyde Park, designed by the architect William Curtis Green and opened in 1931. The building was among the earliest large London hotels built with a reinforced concrete structural frame, an engineering choice that allowed larger uninterrupted interior spaces than traditional masonry construction, and its rooms were designed to be soundproofed against street noise, a notable amenity at the time. The hotel has long ranked among London's most prestigious addresses, and it underwent a major refurbishment in the 1990s while retaining its Art Deco interior character.
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Building Type LocationPark Lane, Westminster, London, England 1 Completed YearSource gives the year of opening; the completion year is taken to be the same and is not separately stated. Classification
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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1. The Dorchester, Wikipedia
Lead, paragraph 1, sentence 1, type of building
The Dorchester is a five-star hotel on Park Lane and Deanery Street in Westminster, Greater London, England, to the east of Hyde Park, one of the world's most prestigious hotels.
Lead, paragraph 1, sentence 1, place named
The Dorchester is a five-star hotel on Park Lane and Deanery Street in Westminster, Greater London, England, to the east of Hyde Park, one of the world's most prestigious hotels.
Lead, opening year statement
It opened on 18 April 1931, and still retains its 1930s furnishings and ambiance, despite later alterations.
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
The Dorchester is a luxury hotel on Park Lane in London, overlooking Hyde Park, designed by the architect William Curtis Green and opened in 1931. The building was among the earliest large London hotels built with a reinforced concrete structural frame, an engineering choice that allowed larger uninterrupted interior spaces than traditional masonry construction, and its rooms were designed to be soundproofed against street noise, a notable amenity at the time. The hotel has long ranked among London's most prestigious addresses, and it underwent a major refurbishment in the 1990s while retaining its Art Deco interior character.
In Style: Art Deco, Wikipedia categories
Category:Art Deco architecture in London
View the Source2. Wikidata: The Dorchester
- Wikidata Q2749941, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q2749941, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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