Hotel architecture

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NewsNews • 9 Apr 2024

Silt Middelkerke is a new architectural landmark on the Belgian coast

Middelkerke, a municipality in West Flanders, Belgium, has an eye-catching new venue and public space: Silt Middelkerke. Overlooking the North Sea, the architectural landmark includes a hotel, casino, restaurant, and event hall, and forms part of an impressive coastal reinforcement initiative. Sebastian van Damme Silt Middelkerke is the result of a Dutch-Belgium collaboration: the Nautilus Consortium. The project was led by architectural studio ZJA and landscape architectural practice DELVA in cooperation with OZ Architect (casino and hotel design) and Bureau Bouwtechniek (project architect) as well as a number of regional experts. Sebastian van Damme ZJA Silt began as part of a strategy to raise and reinfo... More

Project • By ECCE GROUPRural

NIRVANA LIVING VILLAGE

Nirvana Living Village is a rural tourism facility planned to be built in Düzce province, which has the most important natural assets among Turkey's natural beauties. The project is built on a 30.000m2 sloping land. The land stands out with its aged trees, natural vegetation, natural streams and fruit trees. In the concept, it is aimed to integrate the buildings in nature without disturbing the natural appearance and the theme of therapy with nature is processed. ECCE GROUP The high slope of the land has ensured that the buildings are in a staggered layout. With this layout, all rooms benefit from the nature view to the maximum.  The project has 12 rooms located in the main building and 12 suites and deluxe suites that are c... More

Project • By Ikon ProjeHotels

İzmir Bornova Öğretmenevi

İzmir Bornova Öğretmenevi located in Bornova, İzmir in Turkey. Project is a competition project, which was in 2021, managed by National Education Foundation. It is an educational building and intended to be used as an accommodation area. Caption Caption İzmir Bornova Öğretmenevi has a great opportunity about location. It is located in a district that is quite. In front of the area, there is a green area. Moreover, in terraces and facade organization of the building, mostly green can be seen. Modernist approach and environmentally effects considered together and can be seen on the facade organization. Caption Caption Öğretmenevi is a kind of accomodation area belongs to the government. That is why functio... More

Project • By kalbod design studioHotels

Swan Hotel

  To provide a peaceful environment with all the necessary facilities and standards, Sorkhrud Hotel is located far from the high-rise zone of this city. It will offer a unique experience for travelers. By using formal capabilities and integrating them with the basic requirements of the project, the final design has maximum efficiency. It offers a new approach to hotel design on the shore of the Caspian Sea. Caption The final form of the hotel, in addition to keeping its dialogue with the city and not cutting off its connection with the sea, acts like a bridge and leads the passengers to the coastline. The hotel is opened slowly on the urban scale and facing it. The volumes rising from the ground provide levels and paths to enter... More

NewsNews • 8 Feb 2023

AT Design stacks striking white volumes to create this hotel in Lishui City, China

Set atop a mountain in Suichang County in Lishui City, China, the Miwo Hotel, designed by AT Design, seeks to create a serene abode amidst the vast tea hills and reservoirs. The striking white volumes mimic an off-white tree nest, representing the boundary between light and dark in the forest, creating a distinctive landscape in the context of the hotel's distinct geographical environment surrounded by mountains. Yusong Zeng The outdoor courtyard in front of the structure is arranged in a circle, as if engulfing the visitors and the entirety of nature, lending the area its first air of celebration. Water flows to the entrance through the inner water system, allowing the run-off to permeate the entire space while concealing the pas... More

Project • By MUA - Architecture & PlacemakingMasterplans

Kvareli Wine Club

Program: Hotel & Winery | Reconstruction | 570,000 sqm Team: Devi Kituashvili | Gogiko Sakvarelidze | Maria Pelangia | Ucha Zgudadze | Salome Katsadze The project territory of Kvareli Wine Club is located in Kvareli, Kakheti region, Georgia. The project includes a hotel, wine cellar, vineyards, and valleys covered with wilderness. The territory is divided into zones without any significant interconnection or unifying structure. Rendered by MUA - Architecture & Placemaking The shape of the dried-up stream located throughout the project area resembles a circular stain. The circle as a symbol of the place becomes the general concept of the project. Stream bed, without any significant intervention with the natural environmen... More

Project • By asap/ adam sokol architecture practiceHotels

Spring Tower

This project was a design study to explore the design language and massing for a proposed new residential tower in the Historic Core of downtown Los Angeles.  Clad in shades of blue glass, the project sought to exploit the materiality of glass in novel ways by deploying it to maximize its sense of mass and density.  Building from a deep, dark, heavily textured base, the project evolves as it rises to culminate in light blue glass where the building meets the sky, along the way transitioning from a language of dense mass to one of light planarity, enabling the insertion of recessed outdoor balconies within the upper levels.​ Caption Caption The massing angles and jogs as the building rises, creating relationships that al... More

Project • By LODESHotels

Exe Saldanha

The Exe Saldanha is a hotel that is contemporary in spirit and functional in character, the ideal place for urbanites. The hotel facilities have been designed paying great attention to every single detail so as to live up to your expectations, whether you are here for tourism or on a business trip. Lodes' suspensions Kelly and A-Tube as well as A-Tube ceiling lamp blend in naturally with the design, decorating and embellishing the café, the dining room and the hotel's entrance hall. More

Project • By LODESHotels

Lagas Aegean Village Hotel

Lagas Aegean Village is a hotel resort located on the golden sandy shores of the south coast of Kos Island, Greece. Built on a slope, every spot offers beautiful views of the Aegean Sea. It's Its layout and use of space is characteristic of the distinctive Aegean architecture. Completely renovated in 2011, Lagas Aegean Village Hotel resort in Kos, Greece, chose Lodes lighting fixtures for the decoration of the main lounge. Lodes' suspensions Kelly Sphere and Kelly Cluster blend in naturally with the local design, decorating and illuminating, together with Rain, the main building’s lounges. More

NewsNews • 3 Jun 2021

Xi’an Taibai Wushanju Art Hotel evokes a modern ink landscape painting with a design that celebrates the serenity of nature

Near the ancient city of Xi’an, Taibai Wushanju is a complex consisting of resort hotels, open spaces for leisure and cultural exhibitions. A project by IAPA Design Consultants, the complex spans over a historic river, evoking planning concepts of the Lifang system from the Tang and Song dynasties. Each building was inspired by these ideas, then re-interpreted and refined during the design process.   Xiao Tan With a site just under 10,000 square meters, the total building measures 14,500 square meters and includes a boutique hotel, living hall and art exhibition hall. According to the architects, the architectural intent was to create a design that integrates aesthetics, poetry, humanities, and life philosophy. Xiao... More

Project • By BÜRO KLKHotels

Street Lofts

Authentic experience has become an important value to urban travellers. Individual impression instead of mainstream sightseeing is what motivates modern tourists today to explore major cities. A new hotel concept now offers the infrastructure for trips off the beaten track. The idea is simple and convincing. Due to its proximity to the city life Vienna’s ground floor zone symbolises an area of unique urban character. At the same time massive vacancies of city shops urge for their revitalisation. URBANAUTS bridges both aspects using vacant boutiques as authentic habitat for travellers. Former shops become central hotel rooms – URBANAUTS Street Lofts.  The concept is unique. Hotel is no longer regarded in terms of a self-su... More

Project • By DEAR studioHotels

HOTEL PRINZ RUDOLF

This project represents a type of architecture that rises from the history and the morphology of the location, combining both themes into a modern concept of a smart hotel. The new Hotel Prinz Rudolf gets its name from the crown prince of Austria and Hungary, son of the Austrian empress Sissy and her husband the emperor Franz Joseph, who got lost in the woods at one of his excursions and was found near by the Hotels site. The theme of prince Rudolf is omnipresent at the hotels interior starting with the combination of black and gold colours up to the chandeliers. This revocation of an aristocratic environment in a contemporary style evocates a unique provocative character that marks the interior design of this hotel. Davide Perbellini... More

Project • By Phos Design GmbHHotels

BULGARI Resort

PHOS Design shower curtain rail with shower curtain and matching hooks were installed in the hotel rooms of BULGARI Resort & Residences. Various shower curtain rails were covered. For each hotel room we have supplied custom made shower curtain rails, in L-shape and straight. The project has given us much pleasure More

Project • By Clayton KorteHotels

Veramendi House

Situated along San Antonio’s Riverwalk, the Veramendi House consists of four historic buildings dating back to the 19th century and the remnant of the former Solo Serve building.  Through the careful use of indoor/outdoor space and specific programming, Clayton Korte in conjunction with The Mighty Union has endeavored to revitalize these derelict buildings for future use as an 83 key boutique hotel, retail, restaurant, bars and a maker’s market. The vacant exterior spaces that separate the buildings will be converted into vibrant public courtyards that provide circulation throughout the interstitial spaces and offer opportunities for social engagement. Planned restaurants, bars, cafes, retail and pool area will add to the... More

Project • By sejpal associatesHotels

hotel maple ivy

Weekend getaway near Mumbai: Located in a tourist hub a few hours from Mumbai, this hotel serves as a perfect weekend getaway. The challenge while designing of this defunct building was to impart it a contemporary look with  clean lines to the facade. The Reception area over looking the semi-covered swimming pool with its courtyard, makes it a welcoming sight for the visiting guests.  It was a defunct building when clients approached us with a requirement of renovating the structure and converting it into a Boutique Hotel’ boutique hotel located on a one and a half acre of land abutting the Mumbai-Alibaug highway. Alibaug is a weekend gateway destination near Mumbai. The idea was to rework the site and make additions and al... More