The hotel “Vremena Goda” (“The Four Seasons”) is the fourth implemented project by Rhizome. For Igora ski resort, “Vremena Goda” hotel is already the fourth completed project by Rhizome. The three “points on the map” that were opened earlier – the ones in Priozersk, Vidlitz, and Lodeinoe Pole – are nearly inscribed in Karelian landscapes, and, despite the above-average price per room, enjoy unfailing popularity. As for the first “point” in Priozersk, the way we see it, it set a new standard for the hotel infrastructure in the Leningrad region and Karelia: it was then, in the first COVID year, that every beautiful lake and every beautiful forest edge began to get built with laconic framework little houses that came to replace the traditional a-la Rus getaways.

Evgeny Reshetov

Using modern and sustainable solutions, we sought to enter into a dialog with the best Nordic examples of mid-20th century hospitality and health architecture, be it Finnish functionalism or Soviet modernism. Hence the choice of applied color and formal solutions.