As the hospitality industry has continued to rebound this year, a great deal of noteworthy new hotels entered the fold. Among them are diverse examples of innovation and talent paired with compelling stories. Here, we present the projects that caught the attention of our readers over the past 12 months.
Pendry Manhattan West, New York
Found within the new Manhattan West mixed-use development from Brookfield Properties, the 164-room Pendry Manhattan West is housed in a billowing Skidmore, Owings & Merrill high-rise. When it came time to build a design narrative for the hotel, Pendry cofounder Michael Fuerstman turned to locally based studio Gachot to create an oasis from New York’s sensory overload. “When you walk in the door, it takes you somewhere else a bit. There’s a calmness and a real elegance to the building—[it’s] tall and pretty,” says firm principal Christine Gachot. “It’s quite feminine.” Read the full story and head inside the property in this HDTV episode.
Hotel Marcel, New Haven, Connecticut
After sitting vacant for more than two decades, the iconic 1970s-era Marcel Breuer Brutalist Pirelli building in New Haven, Connecticut was purchased by architect Bruce Becker and his wife, Kraemer, in 2019 for $1.2 million. Becker had big plans for what would become the 165-room Hotel Marcel, a Tapestry Collection by Hilton property, setting out to create an all-electric, net-zero property designed to meet Passive House and LEED Platinum certification. Dutch East Design was enlisted to handle the interiors, where the design team paid homage to a revered building via a warm and inviting design. Read the full story.
Rosewood São Paulo
The ambitious Rosewood São Paulo—the luxury brand’s first in South America—was over a decade in the making. An undertaking of that magnitude required a team of design heavyweights, including French architect Jean Nouvel and designer Philippe Starck, to bring it to life. The fusion of old and new is a central design theme—the recognition of Brazil’s rich past with nods to the future. “Both are rooted in sustainability, as one was upcycled and the other was intended to seamlessly fit into the natural landscape,” says Joanne Behrens, Rosewood’s vice president of design and project services, Americas of the two distinctly different structures that make up the hotel. Read the full story.
