design hotel

Pack your bags, it’s time to travel Jaime Hayon-style

Bangkok gets its own Jaime Hayon-designed hotel with The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon.

Neri&Hu creates a moment of pause

Neri&Hu inserted a dramatic courtyard into a rigid structure creating a moment of tranquillity at Alila Bangsar – a hotel sandwiched between Kuala Lumpur’s old and new.

People

What can design learn from gelato? Molonglo Group’s Nectar Efkarpidis elaborates

Eloquent and intensely creative, Nectar Efkarpidis talks about the experience and process required to make unconventional and non-linear design projects. Ice cream included.

Ideas

Room Service: The rise of in-hotel dining experiences

The country’s best chefs are teaming up with top hoteliers to offer travellers and locals a unique in-hotel dining experience. It’s the ultimate ‘staycation’ – with all the trimmings. We unpack the movement.

Projects

The next echelon of design hotel: Carr’s United Places

United Places Botanic Gardens pioneers a new level of luxury travel for Melbourne and its design lovers.

Projects

Sydney infill site transformed into a micro ‘guest house’ hotel experience

The powerhouse team behind the Little Albion Guest House in Surry Hills wanted to create an authentic hotel experience through clever design. And the project delivers that, plus so much more.

Ideas

Hotel Hotel sold to Ovolo Hotels

Seminal boutique hotel Hotel Hotel has been sold to Ovolo Hotels with a name change coming into effect from 1 March this year. Does this spark a new era in the hotel industry?

Projects

The Atlas Hotel Is Fitting In And Growing Over

The Atlas Hotel is Vo Trong Nghia Architects’ thoughtful response to the increasing commercialisation of the Vietnamese town of Hoi An. This restive respite nestles comfortably into a dense urban grid and stirs consciousness of our relationship with nature.

Projects

The Odyssey: Jackalope Hotel by Carr

Luxury used to mean the consumption of precious objects and items. Then it became the consumption of exclusive services. Now, it’s all about “transformative experiences” – this is luxury 3.0. Carr is pioneering this outrageous new archetype with one of 2017’s most Instagrammed projects. But here’s what your social feed might not have told you about the Jackalope Hotel…