The Terrace Mount Development is a major mixed-use scheme in the centre of Bournemouth. It comprises a twelve storey 4/5* hotel, seven storey 3/4* hotel and a four storey residential block comprising 45 units. The 4/5* hotel is defined by a feature tower which includes high quality penthouse apartments. The site has magnificent sea views of the town’s Central Gardens and Winter Gardens. The main hotel building will be a focal point to the town centre and become a modern landmark for the area. It will offer high quality accommodation including 158 hotel bedrooms, destination restaurant, cafe and bar space, leisure facilities and swimming pool. The whole development is situated above a large public car park. The design is conceived as a series of pavilions set on the car park podium allowing for landscape and views between each building. All three buildings are unified by the use of material and colour and defined by a terracotta plinth, white rendered walls and coloured cladding. Colour is an important part of the architectural composition, which is designed to compliment the geography of the site and the surrounding context. The scale of the development reduces from front to back responding to the site levels and is carefully designed to be sympathetic to the adjacent terraced housing that is a defining character of the local conservation area within which the buildings are located.