Why you should experience Andaz London Liverpool Street in London, England.
Andaz London Liverpool Street is an urbane railway hotel where the City of London's Victorian commercial ambition, railway-age grandeur, design culture and East End creative energy converge within the former Great Eastern Hotel.
Set along Liverpool Street near Bishopsgate and just steps from Liverpool Street Station, the hotel occupies the red-brick Great Eastern Hotel completed in 1884 for the Great Eastern Railway beside its principal London terminus. Its railway-hotel architecture developed alongside one of the capital's busiest gateways, giving the building an unusually direct relationship with the commercial networks connecting the City to East Anglia and beyond. Sir Terence Conran later became central to the property's modern revival, bringing his design philosophy to the former railway hotel and creating the Andaz Design Suite that still carries his name. The result is a hotel where the Great Eastern Railway, Victorian architecture and Sir Terence Conran connect the City of London's commercial heritage with a contemporary hospitality culture shaped by design.
What you should know about Andaz London Liverpool Street.
Andaz London Liverpool Street is best known for becoming the first property in Hyatt's Andaz collection in 2007, introducing the company's design-led lifestyle concept inside the former Great Eastern Hotel while preserving a Victorian building dating to 1884 and operating today with 267 rooms. The Grade II-listed 1901 Ballroom preserves its original stained-glass dome through which daylight enters above a 259-square-meter room accommodating as many as 180 guests, with the glass having survived both world wars. A separate Masonic Temple dating to 1912 survives behind heavy mahogany doors with a checkered floor, gilded zodiac ceiling, original leather-and-gold thrones and walls and columns faced in twelve varieties of marble, forming a 1,205-square-foot chamber for 60 people. The contemporary hotel additionally retains the Sir Terence Conran-designed Andaz Design Suite, extending the creative lineage of the designer whose influence helped reposition the former Great Eastern Hotel for a new generation. Together, Hyatt, the Great Eastern Hotel, the 1901 Ballroom, the 1912 Masonic Temple and Sir Terence Conran give Andaz London Liverpool Street an unusually layered character spanning Victorian railway hospitality, Edwardian ceremonial interiors and twenty-first-century hotel design.
The hotel's social spaces extend that historical architecture through a collection of individually named dining concepts, including Miyako, Eastway Brasserie, Rake's Café Bar, Lady Abercorn's Pub & Kitchen and 1901 Wine Lounge. Miyako introduces Japanese culinary culture within the Victorian complex, while Lady Abercorn's Pub & Kitchen establishes a British counterpoint and 1901 Wine Lounge takes its name directly from the year associated with the adjoining ballroom. Rake's Café Bar shifts from daytime café to evening cocktail venue with resident DJs on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, connecting the building's formal railway-hotel inheritance with the nightlife culture of neighboring Shoreditch. Hyatt's coexistence of the 1901 Ballroom, Masonic Temple, Sir Terence Conran's design legacy and five distinct dining identities allows Andaz London Liverpool Street to operate as a contemporary creative hotel without severing its relationship with the Great Eastern Hotel that preceded it.
How to fold Andaz London Liverpool Street into your trip.
Andaz London Liverpool Street works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing domestic storytelling, market commerce and Hawksmoor architecture through Spitalfields.
Begin at Dennis Severs' House, where American-born artist Dennis Severs transformed 18 Folgate Street from 1979 into an immersive sequence of rooms imagining generations of a Huguenot silk-weaving family, turning an eighteenth-century house into an unusually theatrical encounter with East London's domestic past. Continue to Old Spitalfields Market, whose trading history reaches a market charter granted by Charles I in 1638 before Horner Buildings, designed by George Sherrin, established the great nineteenth-century market structure associated with the site. Conclude at Christ Church Spitalfields, where Nicholas Hawksmoor created one of the churches commissioned under the 1711 Act for Fifty New Churches, with construction beginning in 1714 and the completed church consecrated in 1729. The progression moves from Dennis Severs's intensely constructed domestic world through centuries of Spitalfields commerce into Hawksmoor's Baroque architecture, revealing the mercantile, immigrant and creative histories immediately east of Andaz London Liverpool Street.
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