Sawmill Hotel
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Size: 135,000 SF, 125 Keys Status: Construction Permit Pending Program: Hotel Client: Heritage Hotels & Resorts
chevron_leftA New Landmark Hotel in Albuquerque
Sawmill Hotel introduces a new boutique hospitality destination to Albuquerque’s Sawmill District, extending the district toward Rio Grande Boulevard while strengthening connections between Old Town, Museum Row, and the city’s Arts, Cultural, and Residential Districts. The hotel transforms a long-vacant site into a contemporary destination with 125 guest rooms, active ground-floor amenities, and a rooftop pool overlooking the Sandia Mountains and Rio Grande Valley. Its activated edges reinforce the district’s growing pedestrian character and public life.
Stepped upper floors reduce the building’s perceived scale while creating self-shading terraces informed by Puebloan cliff dwellings and centuries of passive solar design. A series of weathering steel screens further moderates solar exposure, with perforations calibrated to orientation to balance shade, daylight, privacy, and views.
The screens layered composition echoes the horizontality of New Mexico’s landscape and the exposed strata of its ancient rock formations. The material palette reinterprets the industrial character of the former sawmill through board-formed concrete, weathering steel, and locally sourced stone.