Rock it Suda, Six Houses by Hoon Moon
Breaking the boundaries of simple architecture, Hoon Moon, Korean architect gave birth to Rock It Suda, a guesthouse with six bedrooms, each characterized by a specific theme: From Barbie to Ferrari, from Spain to the caves to finish with traditional Korean style. The six different ways to capture the landscape inspired Moon, who decided to give birth to the Same Spatial Concentration of Expansion and Compression reasoning on issues completely dissociated from the context such as Spain, Barbie, Stealth, Ferrari, Caves and Traditional Korean Style.
The hotel is located on the outskirts of Jeongseon in South Korea, on the banks of a river and has magnificent views over the mountains surrounding it.
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Hütten Palast, Boutique Hotel by Silke Lorenzen & Sarah Vollmer
A boutique hotel in Berlin, which offers rooms equipped with a small oldschool caravan completely renovated, allowing guests to experience the cozy camping feeling, without the bugs and in the middle of a vibrant city. Read More…
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…
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.
Giraffe Manor, Nairobi Africa
Giraffe Manor is a small hotel in the Lang’ata suburb of Nairobi, Kenya. Together with its related Giraffe Centre, serves as a home to several endangered Rothschild giraffes, as well as operating a breeding program which reintroduces breeding pairs back into the wild.The Giraffe Manor is surrounded by 140 acres of indigenous forest just outside Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. It is home to giraffe and many species of birds, large families of warthogs and the elusive Bush Buck.
The Giraffe Manor offers five double bedrooms, immaculately furnished in the style of their day, with large four-poster beds, antique furnishings and striking art deco bathrooms. Each of the six luxury rooms offer en suite facilities, and sumptuous surroundings. Guests enjoy evening cocktails in front of the fireplace before a delicious gourmet dinner.
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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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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 Library Resort, Koh Samui by Tirawan Songsawat
The Library Resort also called “The LiB” is a resort in Koh Samui, designed by local designer Tirawan Songsawat with minimalist structure. This library is located between old-growth trees on that resort and minimalist structure become the choice. The use of contrast color such as;white, red, black and grey become one of interesting point which fresh our eyes.
Tirawan Songsawat explained about the concept of this project; This library is built as an exotic smart concept. Semi-minimalist architecture is our solution as it provides a very simple architecture and interior which has a balance with surrounding nature. To complement with architecture style, a smart interactive between staff and guests is added up to ensure that the right combination of both facilities and staff will create a perfect blend of the project.
The strong point of this project is ‘The Library Building’ located by the beach named itself after the project’s title. The White building with high huge ceiling equipped with glass window pane all around will enrich purity, serenity and peace.
The Library Building consists of three box-style units adjoining together where the middle box is an open-air serving as a mini-café.
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Boeing 727 Fuselage Suite
Hotel Costa Verde has presented its newest lodgings, the fully outfitted, meticulously detailed, two bedroom, Boeing 727 fuselage suite. We have refurbished a vintage 1965 Boeing 727 airframe, which in its prior life shuttled globetrotters on South Africa Air and Avianca Airlines (Colombia).
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Treehotel in Sweden
The Treehotel in Harads, Sweden (within the arctic circle) will initially consist of only six rental units, each with its own theme, set to open this month, and then expanding with an additional eighteen units to be designed and built over the next 5 years. Treehotel, a unique new hotel which has transformed the simple treehouse concept from childhood into a destination for design-conscious travellers, will be unveiled in Harads, Northern Sweden, on July 17, 2010.
The inspiration for the Treehotel project was borrowed from a documentary film that followed three urban friends who came out to Harads and built a treehouse. That treehouse has been used as a rental unit over the last year and ultimately inspired hotel developers to develop this project.
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Safe the Beach, Hotel Built From Beach Debris by HA Schult
Commissioned by Corona’s Save the Beach campaign for World Environment Day, this pop-up rubbish hotel in Rome was created by German artist HA Schult to highlight the importance of preserving Europe’s beaches. And it’s built almost entirely from rubbish collected from the sands of our wonderful continent.
The Save the Beach campaign is inviting people across Europe to report and nominate endangered beaches throughout the summer, by visiting www.coronasavethebeach.org. The winning beach will be recovered and cleaned later this year by brewing company Corona. Last year, website users chose the Italian beach in Capocotta as the recipient of the Save the Beach clean up.
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“Soho House,” Hotel in Berlin
The Soho Group has now achieved its Berlin site in a 1928 late-Bauhaus building on Torstrasse, in Berlin’s famous Mitte district. Elite, exclusive and private, the 40-room newest Soho property meets the traditional and luxurious line of the group. In-house designer Susie Atkinson and London-based Michaelis Boyd Associates designed the cool interiors: rooms are made up of a delightfully mad yet subtle mix of this hard, angular visual language with a padded-velvet lush and prissy 1930s glamour.
The style meets the typical upscale offered fare: custom beds, rainforest showers, Samsung flatscreens and in-house Cowshed spa products. Plus, to create a retro industrial feel, reinforced by exposed concrete and dark paneling, some rooms have a restored vintage record players and vinly LPs.
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Sparkling Hill Resort Made Crystal its Central Architectural
Sparkling Hill is the first hotel to have made crystal its central architectural theme and in so doing to have jointly developed the comprehensive design of its spaces, which conjure a magical haven of wellbeing from an idea of
wellness, with Swarovski.
The basic idea behind the design of the space was to pay homage to the allure of the surrounding natural environment: the play of glittering drops of water and rays of sun on rock formations provided the inspiration, and crystal from Swarovski provided the elemental material. Now crystals shimmer in fountains, fireplaces, lighting objects and tiles, trace a night sky in the indoor pool and lend subtle warmth to the meditation area. The monumental crystal fragment, the signature of Sparkling Hill Resort, leads visitors into a wondrous world of light, relaxation and contemplation.
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ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden
Benny Ekman
Jukkasjärvi’s ICEHOTEL exists only 4 short months over the year. Built of ice and snow, it is located in a land of Northern Lights and the Midnight Sun, north of the Arctic Circle.
The ICEHOTEL never stands still, its frozen solid ice melting to a free flowing river, and freezing back during a year. It begins in March, when crystal clear ice is harvested from the Torne River.
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