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Eric Jafari
Hospitality Reimagined: Converting Offices into Lifestyle Destinations. Ft. Eric Jafari at AENDRE
Eric Jafari, founder of AENDRE, on converting offices into extended-stay hotels. Hear his Architecture Social podcast episode.
- Current role
- Director
- Practice
- AENDRE
- Location
- London, UK
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Episode 0224 · Architecture Social
Hospitality Reimagined: Converting Offices into Lifestyle Destinations. Ft. Eric Jafari at AENDRE
Ever wondered what it takes to transform a bland office block into a vibrant, design-led hospitality hotspot? This week, we're diving deep with Eric Jafari, a visionary in real estate development who’s reshaping the way we experience spaces. From overseeing billion-pound portfolios to creating bespoke, community-driven destinations, Eric shares the highs, lows, and hard-learned lessons of converting office spaces into thriving hotels. See you shortly!00:00 Introduction and Warm Welcome00:50 Meet
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Eric Jafari is the founder and CEO of AENDRE, a development studio converting redundant office buildings into design-led, extended-stay hotels. Born in Los Angeles and London-based for over 15 years, his background is in real estate rather than hospitality, a perspective he credits for much of his approach. His father was an architect on Disney's Paris and Tokyo parks.
He co-founded and was Chief Development Officer at edyn, where he helped create and scale the Locke brand to 16 properties and more than 4,000 rooms across Europe under Oaktree and then Brookfield ownership, before leaving in 2023 to found AENDRE. Eric featured on the Architecture Social podcast discussing what architects can learn from converting offices into lifestyle destinations.
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AENDRE
AENDRE is a London development studio converting offices into design-led, extended-stay lifestyle hotels across the UK and Europe.
Architecture practice · Greater London
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- Current role
- Director
- Practice
- AENDRE
- Location
- London, UK
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- 1 episode · 2024
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