Kengo Kuma and Edition hotels create "oasis at the heart of the city" in Tokyo
Hospitality brand Edition has teamed up with Japanese architect Kengo Kuma to create a luxury hotel filled with plants in the Toranomon district of Tokyo, Japan. More
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Michaelis Boyd captures "the spirit of the absurd" in Moxy Lower East Side
Hotel brand Moxy has opened its fifth venue in New York City, with an eclectic design that includes a rooftop bar filled with plants and a piano room lined in blue velvet. More
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Wingårdhs perches Swedish forest hotel suites on steel stilts
Swedish architecture studio Wingårdhs has completed a cluster of five suites for the Trakt Forest Hotel in Småland, raised on metal stilts to give visitors the feeling of being among the tree canopy. More
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RootStudio designs sculptural Hotel Flavia in Oaxaca "without plans"
Mexican architecture firm RootStudio has completed a concrete hotel in Oaxaca that was constructed in stages as a "habitable sculpture". More
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Jaqui Seerman updates interiors of LA bank building for Hotel Per La
A new hotel occupies a 1920s bank headquarters in Downtown LA, where Jaqui Seerman refreshed public spaces to include a botanical-themed lounge and a mirror-lined arched gallery. More
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Hotel guests not ready to pay more for sustainability says Conscious Hotels CEO
Only "hardcore sustainable" customers are currently willing to pay extra for eco-conscious hotels, according to Marco Lemmers, CEO of hospitality company Conscious Hotels. More
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Thermory wood cladding forms backdrop to Grand Emily Hotel in Ukraine
Promotion: design agency YOD Group has designed the interior for the Grand Emily Hotel Lobby and Terra restaurant near Lviv, opting for Thermory's rustic wood cladding throughout. More
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Studio MK27 creates Patina Maldives resort on new island
Brazil-based Studio MK27 has used wood, rattan and stone textures to create the buildings for a holiday resort on the Fari Islands archipelago in the Maldives. More
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The Quoin hotel by Method Co opens in historic Delaware bank
US hospitality firm Method Co has turned a Gilded Age-era bank building into a boutique hotel in Wilmington, Delaware, which boasts the city's first rooftop bar. More
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Life House transforms motor lodge in the Berkshires into hotel
A former motel in rural Massachusetts has been transformed by American hospitality brand Life House into a hotel decorated with objects influenced by 1970s hospitality. More
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"We've developed a movement towards silence" says Still Room designer
Hotels and offices could improve the well-being of occupants by introducing "still rooms" says Cédric Etienne, co-founder of Belgian design office Studio Corkinho. More
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Alberto Kalach designs monumental hotel entirely powered by solar energy
Mexican studio Taller de Arquitectura X has designed Hotel Terrestre, a sprawling series of villas in the coastal city of Puerto Escondido, Mexico, that runs on solar power. More
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Mitsubishi Jisho Design completes "Japan's first hybrid timber high-rise hotel"
Architecture studio Mitsubishi Jisho Design has completed an 11-storey hybrid timber hotel in Sapporo, Japan, that was designed to use as much local timber and as little concrete as possible. More
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Margate's Fort Road Hotel celebrates British art and seaside history
Frieze co-founder Matthew Slotover, developer Gabriel Chipperfield and artist Tom Gidley have teamed up with Fleet Architects to turn a partially collapsed building in Kent, England, into a 14-room hotel. More
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MVRDV's colourful Manhattan high-rise opens as the studio's first US project
The Radio Tower and Hotel, Dutch architecture studio MVRDV's first completed US design, has opened in Manhattan, featuring colourful, irregularly stacked volumes. More
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Ludwig Godefroy's Casa TO hotel presents a "reinterpretation of a Oaxacan temple"
Architect Ludwig Godefroy used concrete to create a cavernous structure with a central pool that is designed to facilitate natural cooling for a hotel on Mexico's Pacific coast. More
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Jan Hendzel tracks down "super special" London timbers to overhaul Town Hall Hotel suites
Reclaimed architectural timber and wood from a felled street tree form the furnishings of two hotel suites that designer Jan Hendzel has revamped for London's Town Hall Hotel in time for London Design Festival. More
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Denniston Architects converts 1920s skyscraper into Aman New York hotel
Denniston Architects has converted New York City's Crown Building in the heart of bustling Midtown into a space for the Aman Resorts luxury hotel group. More
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NOA extends Alpine hotel with wellness area resembling an upside-down village
Network of Architecture referenced reflections in water when creating the Hub of Huts, a well-being area that appears to defy gravity at the Hotel Hubertus in South Tyrol. More
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Matteo Thun draws on Czech art heritage for design of The Julius Prague
Italian architect Matteo Thun looked to the work of Czech artists Alphonse Mucha and František Kupka for the interior design of this Prague hotel, which features pastel colours and natural materials. More
