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A 3-Meter Acrylic Sphere Becomes Not A Hotel’s Poké Ball Hotel Room on a Hokkaido Lake
At 3 m (9.8 ft) across, the Poké Ball-Themed Hotel that Tokyo-based hospitality company Not A Hotel is…
A Timber Bathhouse Inspires atelier ba.le’s New Civic Center in Bellevue
On the shore of Lake Geneva, Basel-based studio atelier ba.le has completed a municipal building and hotel-restaurant in…
Studio Font Scatters a Pigmented Concrete House Across the Baja Desert Landscape
In the desert outside Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico City-based practice Studio Font broke a single boutique…
Herzog & de Meuron Extends a Greenhouse Pavilion for Mandarin Oriental’s L’Aria
At the Mandarin Oriental Lago di Como‘s newest restaurant, the same marble-topped counter serves as a breakfast buffet…
Valeriano Boragina Turns Hotel Trame’s Bed Into a Room Within a Room
At Hotel Trame, a new boutique hotel in Rome’s Sant’Eustachio district, Valeriano Boragina designs the bed as a…
Erika Genesio Converts Noble Piedmontese Farmhouse Into Six-Suite Country Relais
Erika Genesio‘s restoration of Vigne del Fagnano 1709 in Santo Stefano Belbo refuses to let the estate feel…
Casa Gruta Reads Like a Cenote, Down to the Concrete That Changes Color
Casa Gruta doesn’t illustrate a cave — it recreates the physical sensation of moving through one, using compression…
A-nrd Converts 19th-Century Glasgow Building Into “Artist’s Residence” Hotel
Located on Glasgow’s historic Bath Street, Arthouse Glasgow is a 76-key lifestyle hotel designed by the London-based studio…
A Former Agricultural Outpost Becomes a Contemporary White-Plastered Villa in Puglia
Located in the heart of Contrada Usciglio within the olive-grown landscape of San Vito Dei Normanni, Villa Normanni…
V Taller Designs Babel as a Vertical Retreat to “Return Land to the Jungle” in Tulum
Designed by V Taller, Babel emerges at the urban edge of Tulum, Mexico, as a vertical intervention that…
HENRYTIMI Strips Back 17th-Century Monastery for Minimalist Nomos Hotel in Rome
In the historic Regola district of Rome, Italian designer and artisan HENRYTIMI has transformed a former 17th-century Franciscan…
BIG Completes Trio of NOT A HOTEL SETOUCHI Villas in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea
NOT A HOTEL SETOUCHI has officially opened its doors on Sagishima Island, marking the completion of the first…
Steven Chu Designs NOT A HOTEL Sound of Rain Villa to “Inhabit” Yakushima’s Constant Rainfall
Sound of Rain, the winning proposal by Steven Chu for the NOT A HOTEL design competition, is an…
Mandarin Oriental Costa Navarino Features Suites That “Dissolve” Into the Greek Landscape
The Mandarin Oriental Costa Navarino, designed by Alexandros N. Tombazis & Associates Architects and K-Studio, emerges from the…
Yong Ju Lee Architecture Wraps Seoul Micro-Hotel in “Rhythmic” Vacuum-Formed Skin
Yong Ju Lee Architecture has redefined the parameters of micro-living with Hotel Myeongdong Station in Seoul, South Korea,…
RA! Stacks “Interwoven” Stucco Volumes to Create Porous Boutique Hotel in Mexico
Conceived as a rhythmic extension of the pedestrian fabric by Mexico City-based practice RA!, the Laiva Hotel San…
Sour Uses “Sonic Wormhole” to Connect Aegean Vernacular With “Glocal” Residential Recording Studio on Cunda
Located on the wind-swept Aegean coast of Cunda, Pur is a residential recording studio designed by SOUR that…
Brutalist Concrete Meets Colonial Heritage at Zeller & Moye’s Hotel Sevilla
In the heart of the “White City,” interdisciplinary studio Zeller & Moye has transformed a dilapidated 16th-century casona…
Lind + Almond Translates Fitzrovia’s History Into the “Unmistakably Fitzrovian” Newman Hotel
The Newman stands as a sophisticated tribute to the bohemian spirit of Fitzrovia, where London-based studio Lind +…
The Integration of Function and Form in Modern Lobby Design
Reception area design has traditionally emphasized visual form. Design teams make careful additions for lighting, decor, music, and…
PPAA Wraps Mexico City Hotel in a “Protective Veil” of Semi-Transparent Metal Mesh
In the dense urban fabric of Mexico City, where the rhythm of the metropolis often dictates the pace…