ITC Annapurna Square

The project is planned as the hospitality anchor of Annapurna Square, with a WelcomHotel by ITC, serviced apartments, banquet facilities, specialty dining, all-day dining, wellness spaces, and a separate commercial counterpart on the same site. What gives the hotel its particular identity is a condition few projects could claim: the Annapurna temple within the site is to remain undisturbed, and the design responds by allowing this sacred presence to influence the larger spatial order. Stepped terraces and calibrated massing extend outward from this point, turning a constraint into the project’s central organising idea.

The hotel is oriented to capitalise on its strongest natural advantage, with principal views opening toward the Himalayan range to the north and north-east. The scheme provides 312 bays in total, including 278 guest rooms, 15 suites, 15 serviced apartment units, and executive lounge bays, while maintaining the room standard of approximately 32 square metres requested in the brief. Banquet facilities are given unusual prominence, with two divisible halls, generous pre-function areas, and lawn spill-outs distributed across the lower hospitality levels. Specialty restaurants, all-day dining, spa, gym, pool terrace, business lounge, and meeting spaces are arranged as a sequence of distinct guest experiences rather than as isolated programme components.

Architecturally, the language draws from traditional Newari elements, pitched roofs, colonnades, lattice screens, timber detailing, and rhythmic façades, but reinterprets them in a contemporary register suited to an international luxury hotel. The result is a hospitality project that is not only commercially robust and operationally clear, but deeply rooted in place, offering a version of luxury shaped by topography, culture, privacy, and view.