Andaz Hotel, London Turning on the style in a Victorian masterpiece. The redbrick Victorian exterior of what was known for 123 years as the Great Eastern Hotel alongside London’s Liverpool Street Station was a prominent landmark on the eastern side of the city. Since the turn of the millennium, the hotel has undergone a period of change. The hotel had assumed an air of faded grandeur before its first major facelift. This was a £50 million refurbishment, under the guidance of co-owner Terence Conran and led to the hotel playing a prominent role in the renaissance of Old Street and the surrounding area. Today the Great Eastern is no more. Now part of the Hyatt Hotel chain, it's known as the Andaz and a three-year refurbishment costing a total of £70 million has restored many of the original

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