Designed by Brazilian and Uruguayan studio MAPA Architects, the cabins combine the radical modernism of Philip Johnson’s Glass House with the use of local, natural materials such as wood and stone that allow the architecture to harmoniously blend into the natural landscape while offering guests an abode of comfort and sophistication. The hotel, which will soon open it...
Designed as a discreet, low-rising ensemble of volumes of subtly textured eggshell concrete that echoes the area's limestone coastline, the house harmoniously complements the turquoise waters and lush shrubbery. Espousing a modernist sensibility of cubic volumes and minimalist aesthetic, the blocks that make up the residence cluster around a central terrace with the p...
Contrary to appearances, this filmic setting is located on Earth, specifically, on a volcanic island 120 kilometres east of the Korean Peninsula. Featuring a dense landscape of mountain peaks, caves and waterfalls encircled by rocky shorelines—a setting not unlike the remote island in Jurassic Park—it makes for the ideal backdrop for Healing Stay KOSMOS, a luxury resort ...
Offering gastronomic delights and spectacular views, the restaurant sees an alpine aesthetic of timber exuberance artfully combined with a modernist sensibility of minimalist elegance. Reached by the Nebelhorn Cable Car that has been transporting visitors up the mountain since 1930, at the time the longest cable car ride in the world, the new restaurant replaces an ou...
Ann Yu, the Director of DOMANI, orchestrated the architecture and interior design of the Club House and brought to it a stripped-back minimal sensibility with timeless appeal based on one core concept - time. In fact, DOMANI describes "time" as being not just a concept but a character in the construction. For this reason, everything was designed to weather well and to ac...
Located in the Costa Rican beach town of Nosara, the existing hotel was expanded and redesigned under the direction of Studio Saxe, a San Jose-based architecture firm renowned for its beautiful boutique hotel designs. Together with the owners, the architects sensitively restored and revitalized the originally run-down wooden house while imbuing it with bioclimatic design...
’Kulturhus i Skellefteå’ is planned to be a 19-storey structure reaching a height of 76 metres. It will house the ‘Västerbottensteatern’ (the county theatre of Västerbotten), the Anna Nordlander Museum, Skellefteå’s Konsthall (art gallery), the city library and a new 16-floor four-star hotel. The 24,940 sqm BTA building will be timber framed with a glass envelope an...
One Dalton contains a 215-room hotel on its lower twenty-one floors and 174 residential condominiums on the forty floors above: collectively, the Four Seasons Hotel and Residences. Shaped as a “soft triangle” in plan and sheathed in low-reflectance high-performance insulating glass, the tower rises from a granite-and-glass podium containing the condominium lobby and the ...
Complex of three hotels in Illychevsk city, Ukraine. The Building 1 is under construction and will be completed by 2016.
A new kind of high-rise for Dubai UNStudio, in collaboration with Werner Sobek,was invited by the wasl Development Group to design a new kind of high-rise for the city of Dubai that would act as a benchmark for both the region and for the wasl Development Group itself. The project is locatedin an exceptional central position in Dubai’s network - along Sheikh Zayed R...
‘nest’ is a resort designed by atelier tekuto at amami beach. its villas are located between the sea and the sky, where travelers can experience complete liberation. it’s a place where the purity of nature is combined with a touch of japanese luxury. yasuhiro yamashita, head architect at atelier tekuto, was actually raised on the island, giving him a rich understandin...
the visitor is first introduced to this theme when walking through the front door. the pink walls of the lobby are lined with pop art, and neon lights hang over the reception desk. the hotel has various works of art throughout the halls and the rooms. it was curated by artist iñaki domingo and photographer and filmmaker diana kunst. the two directed a range of projects f...
morpheus, a new flagship hotel for macau’s city of dreams resort, has opened its doors to guests. designed by zaha hadid architects (ZHA), the project’s distinctive appearance is informed by the fluid forms found within china’s rich jade carving traditions. conceived as a vertical extrusion of its rectangular footprint, a series of voids is carved through the building’s ...
The project involved transforming the art-deco-style McClintock Building in San Francisco's design district, just west of the Mission Bay neighbourhood. Situated along a major thoroughfare, the complex occupies an entire city block. The original building, which dates back to 1939, consists of a two-storey volume adjoined to a low-slung warehouse, both of which are mad...
Devoid of cars and accessible solely by ferry, Isla Holbox is a fishing village off the Yucatán Peninsula and an emerging beach destination within the Yum Balam nature reserve. Its main draw for visitors continues to be the rare opportunity to swim with whale sharks during the summer months. The Punta Caliza hotel is located 300 feet (91 metres) from the Gulf of Mexic...
Anadu Resort is near the city of Huzhou, nestled at the bottom of Mogan mountain. The mountain forms part of Moganshan National Park, a popular tourist destination recognised for its lush vegetation and examples of early 20th-century Chinese architecture. Shanghai-based architects Studio8 were approached by a group of private investors to create a boutique hotel for t...
On December 1, 1999 was officially inaugurated the Burj Al Arab. Since then no other hotel in the world has managed to have the media effect of this gigantic sail unfurled over the sea and now, over 15 years later, a new and important element arrives to renew and increase its popularity. The artificial island on which lies this icon Hotel has in fact been extended with a...
Client: Luoyang Buynow Electronics Information Co., Ltd. Design Company: BLVD Chief Designer: LIU Hong-lei Participating Designer:HUANG Jian, XING Yi-sheng, LiANG Xiao-mei Design Area: 20,695 sqm Project Location: Luoyang, Henan Province, China Design Time: 2014 Completion Time: 2016 Photographer: Dirk Weiblen、Sun Xiangyu Located amid the historic city of Luoy...
german artist, adventurer and future astronaut michael najjar has completely transformed the room interior into a virtual space station. the walls, floor and ceiling are canvassed with universe motifs from the hubble space telescope, a rocket engine spot light illuminates the living room, and novels, films and audiobooks about space travel outfit the reading room. upo...
The Ace Hotel London was completed in 2013 by the London-based architecture firm Universal Design Studio. Working from the outside in, the firm designed 258 quest rooms, an 167 square meter seventh floor event space, a 250 square meter restaurant and a 362 square meter lounge and reception area that includes stores, a bar, a café and an art gallery. Dedicated to maint...
What do you do when you have to renovate the interior of a decadent landmark? Do you try to emphasize the architecture by making smooth and modest interior design choices, or do you see things on a large scale and try to compete with the facade? Well, if the answer is obviously the second one, the problem is you have to at least equal the extravagance deployed outside. W...
A brand new design hotel has opened its doors in Copenhagen’s Latin Quarter: Hotel SP34. Hotel SP34 is the third addition to the award-winning Danish design hotel chain Brøchner Hotels and is the refurbishment of the chain’s artsy, bohemian Hotel Fox. Hotel SP34 keeps the bohemian and adds some chic. Lots of chic. Danish designer and architect Morten Hedegaard was bro...
Not all hotels are created equal. But some hotels truly go above and beyond – like Amsterdam’s Hotel Not Hotel. Hotel Not Hotel is a hotel, but it’s also not really a hotel. Confused? Rather than dividing the space into uniform hallways and standard rooms, Hotel Not Hotel called upon Collaboration-o, a group of designers from the Design Academy Eindhoven, to design mi...
It’s entirely probable that a simple mention of the word ‘hostel’ has you in a cold sweat just remembering the sleepless nights peppered with snoring, stifling heat and intoxicated stumbles. You may have long ago sworn off hostels, driven away by filthy bathrooms and cramped quarters. We’re not here to change your mind. We belong to the camp of hostel-avoiders. However, ...
Matera, Italy, also known as la Città Sotteranea (the Subterranean City), is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world. Originating from a crop of troglodyte homes nestled in the hillside, Matera’s historical center (the Sassi) was classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1993. In the heart of the Sassi, Italian architect Domenico Fiore renovated twelve of ...
In line with our Hotels with a Past series in the last e-mag, the Abbaye de Fontevraud Hotel in Anjou, France is a conversation piece. If you missed reading our Hotels with a Past series, you can click HERE to catch up. Architect duo Patrick Jouin & Sanjit Mankun converted this historical site dating back to the Middle Ages into an exquisite hotel. The Abbaye de Fonte...
Located in Canberra, Australia, the improbable NewAction Nishi building boasts an average 8 star NaTHERS rating, which is roughly 5.5 stars higher than the average local building, meaning that it’s a pretty darn energy efficient building. Designed by Australian firm Fender Katsalidis Architects in conjunction with Japanese studio Suppose Design Office, sustainability and...
Dutch design and architecture firm Studio Makkink & Bey was commissioned by the University of Orléans and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication to design the interior of the university’s newly opened research center: l’Hôtel Dupanloup. The historic 17th-century Hôtel Dupanloup was previously the home of a bishop before being transformed into a library. With...
Located in Thailand’s former capital of Ayutthaya, the Sala Ayutthaya is a twenty-six room boutique hotel near the Chao Phraya River. Designed by Bangkok-based architects Onion, the hotel is divided by a long corridor of locally handcrafted brick. The gently curved geometry offers visitors seclusion and privacy. The hotel is divided into twelve individual “homes” within ...
We do appreciate a good urban boutique hotel, we also appreciate one of Toronto’s signature boutique hotels, The Drake, bringing its artsy touch to the countryside. The Devonshire Inn is located right on the shore of Lake Ontario in the scenic and rural Prince Edward County, a region known for its beaches, wineries and active cultural scene. Providing the perfect site an...
French designer Patrick Norguet is the design force behind the OKKO HOTELS. Implanted in the very heart of cities, OKKO is an entirely urban concept that attempts to deliver the best of local life to visitors. Architecture that reflects the location and carefully curated regional restaurants help non-locals immerse themselves in their environment. Most recently, OKKO ha...
Treehotel by Tham & Videgard Arkiyekter is the grown up version of your favorite youth hideaway. Built on live trees in the forests of northern Sweden, the aluminum structure’s mirrored glass exterior reflects nature’s fluidly changing face while affording visitors a fresh glimpse of the landscape. Equally conscious of the environment, the Treehotel is designed to respec...
You might think of a hotel as a place to rest or a home-away-from-home. However, fans of the traditional hotel might be baffled by Edmund, this unique room conceived by Dutch designers Jos Blom and Jasper Eustace at the Volkshotel in Amsterdam. In fact, the hotel is far from conventional – no cookie-cutter rooms here! In fact, Edmund is part of a series of rooms, each of...
One does not go to the Drift Hotel in Baja, California, to lay in bed and take bubble baths. Drift is a simple framework for the phenomenal landscape of the Baja peninsula – a jumping off point surfing, hiking and exploring. The hotel was established by Stu Waddell. As the former creative director for the planning and design of traditional resorts, Drift seems to be a d...
Free Wifi and free on-demand films? If you’re already sold on the idea, we wouldn’t blame you. CitizenM just understands the 21st century global traveler. A chain of boutique hotels scattered across Europe, CitizenM combines convenience, luxury and technology in a relatively affordable package. Their hotel at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris is a comfortable mix...
South Korea’s Snow Hotel throws design caution to the window. Patterns and materials are recklessly mixed in a glorious clash of marble, tile, wood and wallpaper. Marble floors run smack into cubic optical illusions and rustic stone fades into pristine white tile. Fake meets real, contemporary blends into ancient. Designed by 1990uao, the hotel is located in downtown ...
