Rochester Plaza reads the hotel as a building type. The lobby as a public room, the ballroom as a long-span structure that pays for the tower above it, the service corridor as the thing the plan is actually organised around, the motor hotel as a serious piece of design, and reuse as the long argument about what these buildings can become next.
How the sheet is organised
The site is laid out as a longitudinal section. Each level of the drawing carries the pieces that belong to it — roof and afterlife at the top, the ballroom floor below that, the lobby at grade, the forecourt out front, and back of house beneath everything. Every piece is numbered like a detail callout, so a reference in one note points at a real location on the sheet rather than a tag cloud.
What this is not
It is not a hotel, and it is not a booking or review service. There are no rooms, rates, availability or amenities here, no rankings, and no profiles of the people currently running these buildings. Where a real building is described, it is described from what is publicly documented about its construction; nothing is invented to fill a gap.
Photography
Every plate is credited where it appears. Photographs illustrate the type under discussion; none of them are presented as a particular hotel's own rooms.
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