Roman and Williams transformed the historic Bow Street Magistrates' Court and Police
Station—a 19th-century Covent Garden landmark—into a 91-room luxury hotel. The
design channels the building's inherent tension, reimagining its masculine, judicial
character through interjections of femininity, glamour, and cosmopolitan spirit.

The narrative of exchange between American ethos and British history, following the
studio's work on The Met's British Galleries, grounds the hotel's identity. Arrival begins
under a grand port cochere, leading to a sequence of social spaces:

• The Library: A two-story, book-lined retreat with sumptuous millwork.
• The Elephant Bar: A moody lounge featuring chartreuse accents and ebonized wood.
• The Magistrates Court: The former courtroom reimagined as a dramatic backdrop for events.
• The Coal Vaults: Historic subterranean spaces reinvented as intimate lounges.

The most dramatic intervention is a new three-story atrium, created by enclosing the
former courtyard with a steel and glass ceiling. This luminous nexus connects the historic
building to a new wing—the hotel's core dialogue between old and new, formal and wild.