Myhotel Brighton, the exclusive hotel next to Brighton’s prize-winning Jubilee Library, has been delayed by nine months after its designs were overhauled.

The hotel, designed by architect RHWL and international designer Karim Rashid, has had its external and internal spaces adapted after Myhotel could not agree terms on the purchase of a plot of land behind the site.

The £15m hotel will now consist of 80 rooms instead of the 100 originally planned.

Construction of the hotel will not start until next March, with completion due in mid-2007, nine months after its original opening date, according to managing director Patrick Wennerland.

He said: “We have had to rethink the scheme for internal and external reasons, including dropping our original financial backer. It will be by far the funkiest hotel in Brighton with modern decor and a very large bar in the lobby area.”

We have had to rethink the scheme for internal and external reasons, including dropping our original financial backer

Patrick Wennerland, Myhotels

The hotel makes up the fourth side of a civic square, which is the centrepiece of the 1.75 ha Jubilee Street regeneration. The site has had a high profile ever since the Jubilee Library won the prime minister’s Better Public Building award earlier this month.

Detailed planning was granted in July 2001 as part of the area masterplan drawn up by local architect Lomax Cassidy & Edwards, and regeneration plans for the area stretch back as far as 1991.

The hotel, along with a £500,000 media club designed by Lomax Cassidy & Edwards which is situated behind it, will be the final two elements of the regeneration.