Eco-chic doesn’t even begin to describe the URBN Hotel in Shanghai. Designed by A00 Architecture, the 26-room boutique hotel is a renovated warehouse complete with reclaimed hardwood floors and old brick. And it’s not just the building that’s upcycled. URBN also use recycled and locally sourced materials throughout the hotel, including environmentally safe cleaning products.
“In our spatial interpretations for the club, we aimed to evoke a sense of accessible elegance and modern authenticity that connects the modern traveler with the heritage of the location without harping on the irrelevant past.”
This is how Design Director and founder of Ministry of Design, Colin Sean, describes MOD’s latest project with Jane Yeo [...]
with interior architecture and design by Ed Tuttle, well known for his work on the recently opened Park Hyatt Paris-Vedôme, the Park Hyatt Milan is the Hyatt’s first property in Italy. Set in a palatial and historic 19th century building that was originally constructed as a hotel but later used for apartments and offices, Tuttle [...]
Nestled on a hillside in Kalkan Bay, Turkey, lounging at the private terrace of the Villa Mahal gets you a gorgeous view of the Lycian Coast and the Turkish Mediterranean.
Thanks to Andrew Findlater for sharing this photo with our Hotel Design Flickr group!
It looks like the Grand Hyatt Taipei knows exactly how to spoil a girl. Matt sent us this photo of their walk-in closet, available in their Premier Suites. Located in Taiwan with interiors done by world-renowned designer Tony Chi who you might remember from our post on the Park Hyatt Shanghai.
If you’ve got photos of [...]
A big thanks goes out to Uggboy for sending this to us via our Hotel Design Flickr Group! This unedited landscape photo of the Royal Myconian Resort & Thalasso Spa’s pool is just breathtaking! Located on Elia Beach in Mykonos, Greece, the Royal Myconian Resort is elevated and faces the Aegean Sea offering more than [...]
Although a number of hotels these days have opted for the sleek, angular and minimalist design, there are still a lot of hotels out there that opt for an innovative approach. So today we’re featuring ten of the most unusual hotels that we’ve come across.
1. The ICE HOTEL
The ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi in Swedish Lapland was [...]
With it’s architecture done by five-time Kasper Salin Prize-winner and Sweden’s best known living architect, Gert Wingårdh, the Clarion Hotel Sign is the largest hotel in Stockholm. It’s interiors were provided by various Scandinavian design icons: Arne Jacobsen, Bruno Mathsson, Alvar Aalto, Gunilla Allard, Morten Voss and Hans J Wegner to name a few. The [...]
This delicious display at the Ritz-Carlton Charlotte is the hotel’s first annual environmentally-friendly, all-organic Gingerbread House. Standing 10 feet high by 14 feet wide, the architect-designed Green Gingerbread House is created by Chef Jon Farace and the culinary and engineering teams of the Ritz-Carlton, Charlotte. The structure is built by Jonathan Gellman of Skyward Builders, [...]
This is just one example of the custom photophore candles that set the mood at the CHI, voted as this year’s “Best Spa in the Philippines”. Located in Shangr-la Mactan Resort and Spa in Cebu, they’re designed by Xavier of Kandela Design. Check out more photos of his work on Flickr!
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