The Aloft London ExCeL is a new high quality hotel located on the ExCeL campus in London Docklands, where it will provide 252 high quality rooms for delegates to the exhibition centre. Work has started on site and the hotel is scheduled to open at the end of 2011, in readiness for the London Olympics. The serpentine form of the hotel will be clad in several thousand coloured, textured stainless-steel shingles. The glazed façades will feature a large-scale screen-printed pattern, inspired by the illusion of depth seen in some of Bridget Riley’s paintings.
