Sweden's Icehotel set to welcome guests all year round with permanent building
Icehotel has announced plans to build a permanent hotel alongside its seasonal frozen lodgings in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden (+ slideshow). More
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Arctic exploration cabins by Snorre Stinessen cantilever over the Norwegian shoreline
These glass and timber holiday cabins by Norwegian architect Snorre Stinessen overhang the coastline of Norway's Manshausen Island, providing a base for Arctic Circle explorers (+ slideshow). More
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FCC Arquitectura and Paulo Lobo transform old Portuguese wine estate into a tourist attraction
A wine estate near the city of Lixa, Portugal, has been converted into a hotel for wine tourism, featuring rustic stone structures and contemporary buildings clad in pre-weathered steel or timber slats (+ slideshow). More
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Foster-designed hotel at Battersea Power Station to feature rooftop infinity pool
A rooftop infinity pool boasting views over Battersea Power Station has been unveiled for the Foster + Partners-designed building proposed beside the historic London structure (+ movie). More
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Ares Partners and Atelier Liu Yuyang transform old Chinese farmhouses into mountain resort
Shanghai studios Ares Partners and Atelier Liu Yuyang have converted a group of disused farm buildings into a boutique resort nestled among the rocky pinnacles of China's Yangshuo County (+ slideshow). More
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Kubo Tsushima Architects creates curved cedar interior inside Japanese bathhouse
A wooden floor that curves up to become a wall allows light and air to flow through this bathhouse by Japanese studio Kubo Tsushima Architects. More
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Glass-walled boxes on stilts accommodate guests at Daniel Mayo's Vivood hotel
Guests at this hotel near the Spanish city of Alicante stay in prefabricated cabins, which are raised off the ground to reduce their impact on the rugged landscape and enable views over the adjacent valley (+ slideshow). More
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Archicao's tiny Humble Hostel expands and contracts with a rolling facade
Beijing architect Cao Pu has created a compact hostel in a traditional hutong courtyard that gets even smaller when its front wall is rolled back to provide extra external space (+ slideshow). More
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John Pawson to convert Jaffa convent and hospital into W's first hotel in Israel
British designer John Pawson has unveiled his plans to convert a former convent and hospital in Tel Aviv's Jaffa port into a hotel and apartment complex for the W hotel brand (+ slideshow). More
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Vo Trong Nghia's Babylon hotel building features hanging gardens on its facades
Plants climb all over vertical concrete louvres surrounding the facades of this holiday resort on the Vietnamese coastline designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects (+ slideshow). More
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Bow-wow House by Design Band YOAP is a guesthouse for dog lovers in rural South Korea
This dog-friendly guesthouse and residence in the South Korean province of Chungcheongnam features doors decorated with canine illustrations and a sloping playground overlooking the rural landscape (+ slideshow). More
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Schmidt Hammer Lassen's Malmö Live is a cultural complex designed as "a small city"
Scandinavian firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen has completed a canal-side cultural complex in Malmö, Sweden, featuring a 1,600-seat concert hall, a conference centre and a trio of hotel towers (+ slideshow). More
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OMA wins Amsterdam RAI hotel job with stacked-triangle design
Dutch design firm OMA has been appointed to design a new hotel for the huge Amsterdam RAI exhibition and events complex. More
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Morphosis unveils plans for "Minimalist" skyscraper next to Zumthor's Therme Vals
The American architecture studio led by Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne has unveiled its design for a 381-metre-tall mirrored hotel tower in Vals, Switzerland. More
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Kengo Kuma extends his Garden Terrace Nagasaki hotel with an asymmetric annex
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has added a wooden building with a pointy metal roof to a seaside hotel complex he completed five years ago in Nagasaki, south-west Japan (+ slideshow). More
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Fluted brick walls frame scalloped views of the sky above Thai hotel by Onion
Tall red brick walls with softly scooped outlines frame the passageway that leads guests to their rooms, at this hotel in Thailand by architecture studio Onion (+ slideshow). More
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João Mendes Ribeiro expands a wine-tasting hotel in rural Portugal
Raw concrete and timber boxes create rooms inside these gabled blocks, added to a hotel on a vineyard in rural Portugal by architect and set designer João Mendes Ribeiro (+ slideshow). More
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Lakeside hotel by Ryuichi Ashizawa adjoins a wedding chapel with a musical facade
Harp strings fixed across the facade turn this hotel chapel on a lakeside site in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, into a huge musical instrument when the wind blows (+ slideshow). More
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NL Architects proposes "slightly insane" hotel modelled on amethyst crystals
Purple amethyst crystals formed inside rocks provided the inspiration for this ambitious hotel design, proposed by Dutch studio NL Architects for an island off the south coast of China (+ slideshow). More
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Ladders lead to capsule-sized bedrooms in Koyasan Guesthouse by Alphaville
Bedrooms the size of a single mattress are slotted two-high into the walls of this wooden guesthouse in Japan by Alphaville, which takes its cues from capsule hotels (+ slideshow). More