The 40 Most Anticipated Hotel Openings of 2022
Hotel Marcel, New Haven, Connecticut
Opening date: April 2022
Firms: Becker+Becker, Westport, Connecticut (architect of record, developer, and owner); Dutch East Design, New York (branding and design firm); Chesapeake Hospitality Group (operator)
At a glance: The rehabilitation of a Marcel Breuer-designed Armstrong Rubber Company Building in New Haven, Hotel Marcel is making headlines for its innovations as a net-zero building that will generate 100 percent of its own electricity, heat, and hot water with a rooftop solar array and solar parking canopies. That’s only a few of its accolades: the 165-room hotel is designed to meet LEED Platinum standards and will be the country’s first Passive House-certified hotel in the U.S. “The design both honors this lineage, as well as writes a new chapter for the building,” says Dutch East Design partner Dieter Cartwright. “It’s the soft, warm, and inviting underbelly to the hard concrete exoskeleton.”