Hospitality · 2024
A brand carved from one material.
- Client
- Monolith Hotels
- Year
- 2024
- Services
- Brand Identity, Spatial, Digital, Print
The brief
A new hospitality group with three brutalist properties wanted guests to feel the architecture before they ever arrived — a brand as monumental and tactile as the buildings.
Our approach
We treated the identity like a material, not a logo. Everything is cut from the same stone-grey system with a single warm light source, echoing how the buildings handle daylight. The booking flow is unhurried and architectural — fewer screens, larger type, more air — so reserving a room feels like walking a corridor.
The brief
Make people feel the concrete online.
Three monumental buildings, no brand to match. The group wanted the digital experience to carry the same weight and calm as the architecture.
The idea
Design the brand as a single material.
One stone-grey palette, one light source, one set of proportions derived from the buildings' module. Every artefact reads as cut from the same block.
The build
A booking flow with architectural calm.
We slowed the journey down on purpose: spacious typographic screens, generous imagery, and a confirmation that feels like a key handed over rather than a receipt.
Outcomes
What changed.
The work is judged by what it moved — not by how it looked in a deck. Here is what the system did once it was live.
- Direct bookings vs. OTAs
- +52%Direct bookings vs. OTAs
- Guest experience score
- 9.4Guest experience score
- Properties, one material
- 3Properties, one material
Guests now arrive already inside the brand. The site does the architecture's job before check-in.
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