Tubo Hotel Tepoztlan, in Tepoztlán, Mexico by T3arc
Designed by T3arc, TuboHotel is located in the Magic Village of Tepoztlan, Morelos about 45 minutes south of Mexico City on the other side of the mountain range.
The recycled concrete tubes are stacked in a pyramid-style adding visually interest and allow the spectacular views to be showcased. The rooms include stairs for the upper units, a queen size bed, curtains and even glass windows.
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The Scarlet, Boutique Hotel in Carnwalls by Harrison Sutton Partnership & Bauwerk
Located on the scenic cliffs of Cornwall, the 5-star Scarlet boutique hotel incorporates luxury and a close affinity to nature.The Scarlet team had a very clear idea of the ‘wow’ factor they wanted to create with the new hotel and chose the architect team at the Harrison Sutton Partnership and the building team Bauwerk to help them realise this dream. Sustainability is guaranteed by the use of durable materials, selected for their eco-friendly luxury and remarkable natural views in an environmentally sustainable manner.
The 37 rooms look out over the cliffs onto the Atlantic Ocean. Each features a private outdoor space in the form of balcony, courtyard garden terrace, or rooftop pod. A restorative hotel spa serves as a quiet, almost spiritual sanctuary for relaxation. There is a room full of tented, lantern-lit and cocoon-like hanging pods.
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Cafe Vue in St Kilda Road, Melbourne by Elenberg Fraser
Café Vue is the latest addition to Shannon Bennett’s Vue brand which serves café style French food. The interior by architect Elenberg Fraser draws on the life of Marie Antoinette at the Palace of Versailles; creating a contemporary French café in central Melbourne.
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The Bird’s Nest by Inredningsgruppen
Sweden’s boreal forest has a new addition to its seven beautifully incongruous structures that that constitute Treehotel, an innovative project conceived by husband and wife team Britta Jonsson-Lindvall and Kent Lindvall.
The Bird’s Nest , designed by Bertil Harström of Inredningsgruppen intended to establish a dramatic contrast between the exterior and interior. From outside the cabin looks like a large nest, with only the scale distinguishing it from other more conventional birds’ nests in the forest. Small porthole windows are hidden by the thicket of branches. Inside is a highly designed space, lined in timber like coachwork panels. The bedroom is a separated by sliding doors. Access to The Nest is by a retractable staircase. Read More…
Lord South Beach Hotel by BH+DM
Appropriately oriented and situated in the heart of South Beach on Collins Avenue, Lords South Beach is the first gay hotel brand to open in the US and the vanguard for the modern gay boutique hotel. Sexy, chic, affordable, and fun, it raises the bar for what the discerning gay traveler can expect from a hotel. With 54 rooms, three plunge pools and a variety of exciting hotel venues.
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Qing Shui Wan Spa Hotel, in Shenyang, China by Nota Design International
Qing Shui Wan is a high-end hot spring and spa club with hotel rooms located in downtown Shenyang. This is a 3 store building with a sprawling area of 7000 sqm per floor.
First store consists of solely the main reception hall/ foyer and the hot-springs. The hot springs area is divided into 2 main zone for the different genders.Second store houses 184 seater Japanese Restaurant, in-house buffet area, a VIP buffet restaurant, a cinema lounge, rest lounges, tea appreciation areas, a hair saloon, and massage rooms.
Third store houses the flagship spa with 41 massage rooms, 23 majong rooms, 14 treatment rooms, 2 Turkish Bath, and 24 hotel rooms. The designers are tasked with the Interior Architecture as well as the facade design.
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Cubic Boutique Hotel by Sergey Makhno & Vasiliy Butenko
Cubic Boutique Hotel by Sergey Makhno & Vasiliy Butenko is rather gorgeous and not boring at all. Its lighting may well be compared to an object of art. The boutique hotel is snuggled into a green hillside, and extends out to the sands of the Dead Sea. On one side, a gorse-covered mountain closely approaches the hotel, on the other side it stands near the coastline of the Black sea. Read More…
The Cube Restaurant by Park Associati for Electrolux Pops Up in Brussels
Electrolux has opened the doors of the Cube designed by Park Associati, a unique restaurant with a very exclusive view.
Crowning the beautiful, 30-hectare Parc du Cinquantenaire, the Arc de Triomphe is the perfect home for The Cube in Brussels. Erected in 1905, the intricately carved arch commemorates the 50th anniversary of Belgian independence in 1880.
The Cube’s location atop the arch will offer diners once-in-a-lifetime views over the park and the Brussels skyline beyond.
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Santorini Grace Hotel
Located in the beautiful setting of Imerovigli in the northwest of the island, high above the Caldera, the Grace Santorini is the perfect vantage point from which to view the famed Santorini sunsets that envelop the Aegean Sea, and the Cyclades Islands.
This graceful boutique property with its individually styled suites and rooms, appeals to those seeking a relaxing and romantic escape.
The hotel has two beautiful swimming pools including a new infinity pool offering uninterrupted views.
There are 20 rooms total at the Santorini Grace and all face the same direction for optimal views. Some have private plunge pools, some are honeymoon suites with his and hers sinks in the bathroom. The hotel is sprawled out over several different levels playing on the “cave” aesthetic.
While there are nooks and alcoves for privacy, there is a general communal vibe amongst everyone lounging by the pool, or the bars, or in the restaurant. Only recently opened in 2009, The Santorini Grace has already been given many accolades and awards: Shortlisted in the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards 2011, Included in Tatler Travel Guide’s 101 Best Hotels in the World, 2011, Shortlisted for The European Hotel Design Awards, 2010, Selected for Conde Nast Traveller’s Hot List of the World’s Best New Hotels, 2009, and at the World Travel Awards, it won Greece’s Leading Boutique of 2009.
Nobis Hotel by Claesson Koivisto Rune
Claesson Koivisto Rune has recently designed the interior of the Nobis Hotel located in two historic late 19th-century buildings on Norrmalmstorg square in the heart of downtown Stockholm, Sweden. Designed with a holistic attitude, together with a certain amount of eccentricity, Nobis Hotel is a contemporary 5-star hotel.
The extravagant Gold Bar, the French-inspired 24/7 bistro, the generous lounge, the Italian trattoria Caina on the floor below, the relax area clad entirely in marble and the conference section with its original wooden paneling preserved have each been given a distinctly different character. Despite this, each space flows into the next so that the spatial context is strong.
The colour scheme and lighting design is also warm and subdued throughout. We call it Scandinavian dark blond. Another recurring theme is subtle patterns, in many cases derived from our own abstracted architectural drawings. Like the corridor carpeting and the wallpaper in the conference section. Read More…
Whitepod Resort, Eco Swiss Igloos
The Whitepod Resort is a village of 15 igloos where comfort and nature joins together in the Swiss Alps at 1700 meters above sea level, at the foot of the Dents-du-Midi (“The Teeth of Mid-day”).
With the use of the pods (dome shaped tents), pitched on wooden platforms, Whitepod offers low impact accommodation in an untouched and pristine alpine environment. Isolated from all urban pollution, the mountain region lends itself beautifully to such an eco-tourism development. After a night in a “pod” geodesic igloo snow so the cozy interior (with king-size bed), you can enjoy massages, sauna and winter sport activities like snowshoeing rides or dogsled. Member of « The Luxury Camps & Lodges of the World » and rewarded with the World Prize for Sustainable Tourism in 2005, the Whitepod Resort aims to be a model for sustainable tourism by using a number of measures to limit its impact on nature.
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Travelers Closet by Psychic Factory
Closet by Korean design studio Psychic Factory provides a fully functional closet for the road – the case is designed as drawers and the handle lengthens to host hangers.
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Juvet Landscape Hotel by Jensen & Skodvin Arkitektkontor
Designed by Jensen & Skodvin Arkitektkontor (JSA), the Juvet Landscape Hotel is located in the heart of a picturesque forest, on the banks of the river Valdolla, in Norway. Each room is a detached small independent house with one, or sometimes two of the walls constructed in glass. The landscape in which these rooms are placed is by most people considered spectacularly beautiful and varied and the topography allows a layout where no room looks at another. In this way every room gets its own surprising view of a dramatic piece of landscape, always changing with the weather and the time of the day and the season.
Dining Tree Pods at Soneva Kiri Resort, Thailand
At the Soneva Kiri Eco Resort in Thailand, guests have the option to dine in a lofty woven Tree Pod perched 16 feet off the ground. The Dining Pod, engineered with a rigid frame swathed in woven rattan is like a cocoon with an open panorama window. Food courses arrive with a flying waiter harnessed to a zip line.
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TravelTeq Trip
The hard-sided TravelTeq Trip features plenty of compartments for your clothes, laptop, phone, and other gear, smooth-gliding wheels on legs that can extend out of the back of the case, a sliding top plate that serves as a stool, a telescoping handle, and even optional speakers to blare your protest rock in the middle of the TSA security line.
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Dream and Fly Bubbles, Micro Hotel Rooms Concept
Barcelona company Dream and Fly have sent us the latest project of their miniature hotel rooms proposed for airports and train stations. The bubbles are designed as small luxury rooms and are available in three dimensions. The ‘Simple Bubble’ is five square meters and has no bathroom, ‘Single Bubble’ is seven square meters with an en-suite, while ‘Family Bubble’ is ten square meters and includes a cot.
Simple Bubble consists of a space without a bathroom. This type of modular bubble works in a completely autonomous way from the structure of a micro hotel. It can be installed in any place where a hotel room cannot be built.
The Mira, Hong Kong by Charles Allem
Miami-based interior designer Charles Allem did an incredible job with The Mira Hotel, making it one of the most stunning hotels in Hong Kong. With its modern yet warm vibe and incredible lighting, the hotel has done its share to attract a younger, hipper crowd, but it is still predominantly patronized by working professionals.
Located on Nathan Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, in the heart of one of Hong Kong’s busiest shopping and commercial districts, The Mira Hotel is a short walk to the subway (MTR), bus links, as well as the Star Ferry. Adjacent to the hotel are a number of shopping malls, boutiques, bargain outlets, as well as your pick of cheap and upscale eateries.
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