Tromsø is a city with a completely unique character, where the main street is characterized by many charming wooden houses. The intimate scale of old Tromsø is an important attraction that gives the city a varied and attractive environment between these small-scale buildings.

Skaret hotel, with its 150 apartments, is designed as a composition of smaller volumes with a scale and colors similar to the old houses. The external form of the building thus reinforces and emphasizes the qualities of the existing, unique cityscape. The hotel is strategically located between the straight Storgata and the lively, curved Strandgata which follows the old sea front. The facade design reflects this by being more formal and linear towards Storgata, while at the same time it is angled and broken towards Strandgata to follow the arches.

The windows have variations in height, with changes in tempo between two and three floors, to create a scale that resembles the facades of the older buildings in the area. The color palette consists of earth tones and pure white, which are typical of the traditional urban buildings in the area.

At street level, the hotel has both a restaurant and a bar, so that the new quarter also invites popular activity and involvement outside the building