New York design practice Reunion Goods & Services has renovated this hotel in Rhode Island to be reminiscent of a colourful home with a fireplace and cosy seating nooks. More about The Wayfinder hotel designed to "feel as if you were staying with friends" in Rhode Island
German architecture studio Von M has completed a carbon-neutral hotel that is built of wooden modules clad in white shingles. More about Von M clads carbon-neutral Hotel Bauhofstrasse in white fibre-cement shingles
Linen, bamboo and sandy-beige tones appear throughout Strandhotel Zoomers in the Netherlands, which has been designed by creative studio The Other Season. More about The Other Season applies natural palette to boutique hotel by Dutch seaside
Craggy rock walls and a hot-spring style bathtub would feature in this imaginary Odesa hotel room that interior design studio Sivak & Partners has envisioned in a series of renderings. More about Sivak & Partners imagines contemporary beachside guest suite in Odesa
Sailing and nautical aesthetics informed CL3's interiors for the Intercontinental hotel in the Raffles City Chongqing complex in China, which includes guest rooms that draw on the design of yacht cabins. More about CL3 unveils interior design for Intercontinental Chongqing Raffles City
Shanghai architecture studio Atelier XÜK has created a series of timber interventions to turn a former school in Qinyong, China into a hotel while leaving its original, solid masonry structure intact. More about Atelier XÜK converts disused Chinese primary school into boutique hotel
Tel Aviv practice Plesner Architects has built a hotel in the Negev desert of Israel harnessing local materials and regional craft like limestone walls, ceramics and pergolas. More about Plesner Architects builds Six Senses Shaharut hotel in the Israeli desert
American designer Kelly Wearstler describes how she worked with local artisans and artists on the Santa Monica Proper Hotel in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD Awards. More about Kelly Wearstler's "fiercely local" Santa Monica Proper Hotel named AHEAD Americas Hotel of the Year
South African designer Porky Hefer took cues from the amorphous shape of bird nests to create this off-grid guesthouse on a wildlife reserve in Namibia. More about The Nest at Sossus guesthouse in Namibia features a thatched facade
ACA Architects cantilevered rainscreens made of aluminium patterned to look like wood from a hotel at the Dor-Shada Resort on the coast of Thailand as part of a modern makeover. More about ACA Architects adds horizontal rainscreens to Dor-Shada Resort in Thailand
Los Angles practice Studio Collective has renovated a mid-century building in the city designed by modernist architect Welton Becket in the 1960s to create a laid-back hotel. More about Studio Collective revitalises modernist LA tower for Hotel June
Casa Palerm is a standalone villa built for a hotel in Mallorca by architecture office OHLAB with a window designed to replicate the dimensions of a retro cinema screen. More about OHLAB frames cinematic views of the landscape for hotel in Mallorca
White walls, stripey furnishings and colourful ceramics feature in this hotel on France's Côte d'Azur, which interior architect Stéphanie Lizée has designed to reflect the region's laid-back ambience. More about Stéphanie Lizée's interiors for Hotel Le Sud are an homage to the south of France
Grey stone walls and jet-black joinery meet to form the monochromatic interiors of this boutique hotel in northern Spain designed by Francesc Rifé Studio. More about Casa Grande Hotel in Spain occupies 18th-century stone manor house
Atelier Ace's Kelly Sawdon and Studio Shamshiri co-founder Pamela Shamshiri explain their opulent design for New Orleans luxury guesthouse Maison De La Luz in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD Awards More about Maison De La Luz hotel in New Orleans is "madcap and fun" says Pamela Shamshiri
In the first of two videos about Atelier Ace produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD Awards, Kelly Sawdon explains how the brand's Sister City hotel offers travelers a minimal refuge from the bustle of New York. More about Sister City hotel distils hospitality "down to the essential beautiful parts"
From converted caves to underground pools, here are seven hotels and houses on the Greek island of Santorini designed by local studio Kapsimalis Architects. More about Seven Santorini island retreats by Kapsimalis Architects
Chilean architecture studio Larrou has designed a hotel near a field where sheep graze in Patagonia from wood-clad cabins that were prefabricated. More about Clustered prefab cabins form hotel in Chilean Patagonia
Sinuous spruce-wood walls wind around this cosy cave-like suite that Tenon Architecture has created for a resort hotel in southern Greece. More about Wooden Cave hotel suite in Greece is made from over 1,000 pieces of hand-cut spruce
AHEAD is announcing the best new hotel designs in the Americas today, in a video ceremony broadcast as part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with the hospitality awards programme. More about AHEAD Americas 2020 awards winners announced in video ceremony at VDF