Spanish designer Jaime Hayón aimed to take visitors to this hotel in Madrid on a "visual journey through Spain's past" by combining Arabic and Moorish details with his signature playful aesthetic. More about Jaime Hayón designs interiors for Barceló Torre de Madrid hotel
Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek and architect Iggie Dekkers have transformed a century-old barn in the Friesian village of Woudsend into a guesthouse designed to showcase an aged timber roof. More about Piet Hein Eek and Iggie Dekkers convert Friesian barn into rustic guesthouse
Morphosis has refurbished guest rooms at a hotel in Vals, Switzerland, where the US firm has also proposed a controversial skyscraper beside Peter Zumthor's famed spa building. More about Morphosis designs bedrooms for hotel at Zumthor's Vals spa
Threatened by construction of a major new reservoir, a forest of 10,000 trees and a collection of 50 historic houses have been transported 800 kilometres to Shanghai, where they are being transformed into an expansive holiday retreat. More about Historic forest and houses moved 800 kilometres to create Shanghai resort Amanyangyun
Portuguese studio PROD has converted this 18th-century house and stables in northern Portugal into a 15-bedroom hotel, adding an elevated wooden bridge and a vaulted roof to the kitchen. More about PROD transforms 18th-century manor house in rural Portugal into hotel
Dezeen promotion: the Radical Innovation Award, which celebrates and encourages innovative ideas within the hotel industry, is inviting designers, architects and entrepreneurs to submit their concepts. More about Call for entries to the Radical Innovation Award for innovative hotel design
Design firms Asylum and Zarch Collaboratives have converted a former spice warehouse on the Singapore River into a hotel, featuring exposed ceilings trusses, brickwork walls and mid-century style furniture. More about Asylum and Zarch Collaboratives transform Singapore spice warehouse into boutique hotel
American studio ASAP has conceived a new hotel for the urban core of Los Angeles that is meant to evoke a rock emerging from the landscape. More about ASAP gives rocky form to Downtown LA hotel tower
Foster + Partners has won a competition for a complex of stepped towers in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, providing accommodation for pilgrims en route to the world's largest mosque. More about Foster + Partners reveals cascading tower complex for Mecca pilgrims
Visitors to the Koti hotel in Paris will be immersed in a Finnish experience, sleeping in wooden cabins and sharing meals around a communal table. More about Koti hotel brings Finnish holiday experience to Paris
Seven Scandinavian architects have now built treehouses for Sweden's Treehotel, including a bird's nest, a mirrored cube and the charred timber cabin added earlier this month by Snøhetta. More about Seven unusual treehouses you can sleep inside at Sweden's Treehotel
Sandstone blocks face into a central courtyard to create this huge clubhouse complex by More Architecture and AIM Architecture, which is set on an island in Jiaxing, China. More about Sandstone buildings create fortress-like clubhouse surrounded by a moat in Jiaxing
Design firm Yabu Pushelberg has completed the interiors for the Four Seasons Hotel in Downtown Manhattan, using dark wood in the public spaces and soft colours in the guest rooms. More about Yabu Pushelberg pairs warm wood and muted hues at Four Seasons Downtown New York
Snøhetta has completed a treetop cabin for the Treehotel in northern Sweden, featuring charred-timber cladding and a suspended net for observing the Northern Lights. More about Snøhetta adds treetop cabin with stargazing net to Sweden's Treehotel
Studio Fuksas has completed a convention centre and hotel complex in Rome, featuring an auditorium in a translucent fibreglass "cloud", suspended within a huge glass box. More about Studio Fuksas suspends cloud-like auditorium inside Rome convention centre
These photographs offer a look inside Oscar Niemeyer's recently reopened Hotel Nacional in Rio de Janeiro, which features interiors by Brazilian firm Debora Aguiar Arquitectos and US practice Studio VOA. More about Oscar Niemeyer's revamped Hotel Nacional features interiors by Debora Aguiar and Studio VOA
A hotel designed by famed Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer has reopened as a luxury resort in Rio de Janeiro, after being closed for over 20 years. More about Oscar Niemeyer's Hotel Nacional reopens in Rio after 20 years
Greenery overflows from concrete planters set into the sandstone walls of this hotel, designed by Vo Trong Nghia's firm for historic Vietnamese town Hoi An. More about Vo Trong Nghia completes Vietnam hotel featuring walls of hanging plants
Brightly painted shipping containers are stacked one on top of the other to house bunk beds at this hostel in Nha Trang, which also features aerial bridges and giant communal hammocks. More about Stacked shipping containers house bedrooms at Vietnam hostel by TAK Architects
New York studio AvroKO has designed the interiors of Arlo Hudson Square, a new boutique hotel with tiny rooms – some of which have bunk beds. More about AvroKO creates "micro hotel" in former industrial neighbourhood in New York