The project is briefed as a boutique business hotel located in a main busy road in central of Jakarta, Wahid Hasyim street. Mainly known as a tourist strip this area contains many coffee shops and small hotels, which cater for local & foreign tourists, but also has direct access to Jakarta's central business district The site itself is a relatively small 1,500 sq m sandwiched between the Spanish embassy and an office building, easily visible from the CBD. The client wanted to build a custom, self operated business hotel to deliver an unique product to the market, and TWS Partners were awarded the contract to design the Akmani hotel in 2007.