THE FITZWILTON HOTEL IN MAY 2016 25/05/2016

Long before the Fitzwilton Hotel on Bridge Street became a central fixture of the Waterford Walls international street art festival, its plain, rendered multistory elevations presented a stark, unyielding face to the surrounding streetscape. Offering these expansive surfaces to the festival served a dual purpose: it revitalised an austere building envelope within Waterford's Cultural Quarter and embedded the hotel directly into the city's modern cultural identity, turning private walls into lasting public assets.