Klotild Palace has presided over the junction of Váci utca and the Elizabeth Bridge approach since 1902, its 48-metre tower and exuberant Neo-Baroque facade designed by Flóris Korb and Kálmán Giergl for Princess Klotild of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as a pair of matching corner palaces framing one of Budapest's grandest urban set pieces. The St. Regis Budapest, opening in 2026 within this UNESCO-listed building, was handed to Moinard Bétaille for the design concept and 4BI & Associates for the renovation architecture — a collaboration that has drawn the palace's 102 rooms and suites into a conversation between its original grandeur and something altogether more contemporary. The guestrooms take their conceptual cue from Budapest's opera boxes: walnut four-poster bed frames in burnished brass, indigo watercolour canvases suspended above the headboards, and blue-patterned rugs that pool across pale oak herringbone floors. The restaurant preserves fluted white pilasters and original cornice detailing, its terrazzo floors inlaid with geometric brass banding, the ceiling dressed with cascading amber Murano-style glass chandeliers above plum velvet banquettes and tangerine upholstered chairs. The bar brings the building's cultural history forward more directly — a black Marquina marble counter glowing against a backlit latticed base, a large-format painted mural depicting a Budapest orchestra above, gold-leafed panels flanking it on either side. Zsolnay porcelain heritage and Hungarian tile stove motifs run as quieter threads throughout, ensuring the palace's identity remains legible beneath the new skin.