by Alissa Ponchione | Jan 3, 2013 | News
IHG’s Hotel Indigo has passed the 50th property milestone with openings in London and New Orleans. The brand opened 14 hotels worldwide in 2012, adding seven new hotels in the Americas, five in Europe, and two in Greater China. At Hotel Indigo London...
by Alissa Ponchione | Jan 2, 2013 | News
ASID has launched its new website, ASID.org. The site is designed to engage the design community and showcase the expertise of ASID members through several key features: Find a Designer and Designers Near You. This homepage feature highlights rotating designer...
by Alissa Ponchione | Jan 2, 2013 | News
DoubleTree by Hilton Putian has opened, marking the brand’s entry into China’s Fujian province. The new-build hotel offers 337 guestrooms and suites outfitted with LCD flatscreen TVs, in-room climate controls, laptop-size safes, signature beds, and marble...
by Alissa Ponchione | Jan 2, 2013 | News
Orient-Express is wrapping up its restoration of the historic El Encanto hotel in Santa Barbara, California, with an opening scheduled for March. The early 20th-century property will recapture the romance and glamour that made it a preferred getaway of...
by Alissa Ponchione | Jan 2, 2013 | Projects
Paul Kember and Girish Jhunjhnuwala have worked together on numerous projects for more than a decade. In 2005, the Hong Kong-based British architect and co-founder of K Plus K, with his identical twin brother Johnny, designed 38-unit service apartment Erba for the...