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One of London's best hotels, it has all of the class of the Connaught, but without the upper-crust attitude that may sometimes verge on snobbery. Few hotels have the ancient experience of "the Dorch," that has maintained a practice of fine comfort and cuisine since it opened in 1931. It was created by Sir Frances Towle and Sir Malcolm McAlpine. They acquired the old Dorchester House, a giant 19th century building, and quickly had it demolished.

Sir Owen Williams was commissioned to design the new hotel. In the new edifice, the usage of buttressed concrete authorized the creating of enormous internal spaces without support pillars. The construction was carried out by Sir Robert McAlpine, was finished in 1931.

In 1988, the hotel closed for 2 years for a major refit. The hotel was totally updated and the Promenade, Griddle Room and the Oliver Messel Suite were meticulously revived, to reopen in 1990. The Dorchester is managed and owned by Dorchester Collection; a collection of 7 luxury hotels in the UK, the US, France, and Italy.

It was organized in 1996 to control the hotel interests of the Brunei Investment Agency. Breaking from the neoclassical convention, the boldest designers of the age created a building of bolstered concrete dressed in terrazzo slabs.

The Dorchester boasts guest rooms fitted out with Irish linen sheets on comfy beds, and all of the electronic gadgetry you'd be expecting, and double- and triple-glazed windows to keep out noise, with plump armchairs, cherrywood furniture, and, in numerous cases, four-poster beds heaped high with pillows.