Ecuadorian architects Ignacio Muñoz Bustamante and Javier Mera Luna have teamed up to expand a hotel with three new guest rooms constructed with metal vaulted roofs over stone walls in Papallacta, Ecuador. More about Wooden vaults sit on stone foundations at Ecuador hotel extension
Colorado-based startup Elmntl has unveiled a range of customisable cabins that provide bedrooms and sauna facilities in natural landscapes. More about Elmntl unveils prefab cabins for creating wellness retreats in wild landscapes
New York-based Lissoni Architecture has completed a hotel in Manhattan's NoMad neighbourhood, featuring minimalist interiors that blend Scandinavian and Japanese influences. More about Lissoni Architecture designs moody minimalist interiors for Hotel AKA NoMad
Design studios Post Company and Lázaro Rosa-Violàn have combined historic features and contemporary touches for the Locke de Santa Joana hotel on the site of a convent in Lisbon, Portugal. More about Post Company and Lázaro Rosa-Violàn turn 17th-century convent into Lisbon hotel
Austin-based design agency Kartwheel Studio has renovated a structure to preserve the mid-century modern atmosphere of the 1960s seaside motor lodge in Galveston, Texas. More about Kartwheel Studio "honours and revamps" mid-century Texas beach motel
California studio Malek Alqadi has created a series of monumental concrete hotel suites in the Mojave Desert, USA, informed by Middle Eastern archaeological sites. More about Malek Alqadi references Petra for series of follies in California desert
Architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled Kornmarktplatz, an arched structure that extends behind a neo-baroque facade in Bregenz and contains an apartment and hotel. More about Herzog & de Meuron inserts arched apartment behind old facade in Austria
Ghanaian studio Limbo Accra has created the Duho Pavilion within the grounds of a ruined hotel on Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. More about Limbo Accra opens up abandoned Cayman Islands hotel with aluminium-pole sculpture garden
Architecture studio TAAC and interior designer Sara Skalli have created a seaside hotel in Mexico that uses traditional materials including chukum – a finish made from tree resin and limestone. More about Casa Yuma hotel built with "vegetal concrete" and pink bricks
Bold red-and-white checkerboard tiles and colourful upholstered banquettes lend an Italian feel to the atrium of this Copenhagen hotel designed by local studio Tonen. More about Venetian palazzo informs "elegant and unexpected" interiors of Hotel Bella Grande
Mykonos club Scorpios is opening a second location in Bodrum, Turkey, where a team of architects and designers has created a series of stone bungalows and a wellness "temple" featuring a dramatic coffered ceiling. More about Scorpios Bodrum overlooks the Aegean Sea from every angle
Local studio PGM Arquitectura has completed a series of garden suites on top of the podium of the St Regis hotel skyscraper in Mexico City, originally designed by Argentine-American architect César Pelli. More about PGM Arquitectura adds garden suites to César Pelli skyscraper in Mexico City
Modular furniture, app-operated doors and a self-serve bar are among the experimental ideas being trialled at MM:NT, a mini-hotel in Berlin that will constantly evolve in response to feedback from guests. More about ACME and BWM design adaptable interiors for MM:NT apartment hotel
Interior design studio Necchi Architecture has combined lacquer, chrome and retro design accents to evoke the "uninhibited atmosphere" of the disco era at the Hôtel Château d'Eau in Paris. More about Necchi Architecture takes cues from retro nightlife at Hôtel Château d'Eau in Paris
French artist Daniel Buren has created installations at six Belmond hotels, including a colourful pergola in Mallorca, mirrored totems in Cape Town and a window takeover in Rio de Janeiro. More about Daniel Buren brings his signature colours to six hotels around the world
Designer Werner Aisslinger has renovated a lakeside hotel in Germany's Sauerland region, adding hydroponics and locally sourced materials including wood and terrazzo to craft interiors informed by the surrounding nature. More about Studio Aisslinger completes "nature-loving" renovation of Hotel Seegarten
Architecture studios Edmonds International and Rockwell Group have collaborated on The Edition hotel group's latest property in Mexico's Quintana Roo state, which will be one of founder Ian Schrager's last for the brand. More about The Riviera Maya Edition at Kanai hotel sits over mangrove reserve in Mexico
A 36-metre-tall concrete silo has been converted into a dramatic hotel lobby at Bacalan Block – the transformation of a former factory site in Bordeaux into a mixed-use development by Colboc Sachet Architects. More about Vestiges of industry inform hotel complex on former factory site in Bordeaux
Amsterdam studio More Architecture used a large zigzagging roof to shelter Floating Hotel, which is dramatically positioned among the bamboo forests and mountains of Dachangping, China. More about More Architecture perches Floating Hotel among Chinese mountains
Mexican architect Carlos H Matos has completed a concrete house designed to be an "ode to antiquity" and "futurity" in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. More about Carlos Matos references Mexico's "profound transformations" in secluded retreat