Hospitality Design

Sweets Hotel

Design firm: Space & Matter, Amsterdam The details: Old, unused spaces, including  former crane tracks, wharfs, and iconic bridge houses, are the foundation for the new Sweets Hotel in Amsterdam,…

Statement Makers: Shoreline Hotel Waikiki, Hawaii

Nature meets neon. That’s the concept the New York office of BHDM Design was tasked with when repositioning the Shoreline Hotel Waikiki in Honolulu’s most tourist-clogged area. Originally built as…

Photos: Shoreline Hotel Waikiki

Statement Makers: Hyatt Centric MG Road Bangalore

A stencilled piece of street art depicting an older Indian woman brazenly riding a Harley spawned the design narrative for the Hyatt Centric MG Road Bangalore, the lifestyle hotel brand’s…

Statement Makers: Las Chicas, Los Chicos y Los Maniquís

Inside the 88-room Axel Hotel Madrid, a 19th-century palatial building in the city’s old literary quarter, the restaurant Las Chicas, Los Chicos y Los Maniquís evokes Spain’s 1970s-’80s countercultural movement,…

Statement Makers: Sands Hotel & Spa

An arched façade was the only architectural element Martyn Lawrence Bullard liked about the original “uninspiring and dated” property he was tasked to transform into the 46-room Sands Hotel &…

Statement Makers: Akira Back

Drawing from his eclectic, adventurous background as a pro snowboarder-turned-Michelin-starred chef, Akira Back, who was born in Seoul but grew up in Aspen, wanted his first Canadian restaurant, located in…

Statement Makers: Feast India Co.

Wes Anderson’s finely wrought visual universe was so beloved by the team behind the two-story, 4,000-square-foot Feast India Co.—cheekily dubbed the Pink Zebra—that the restaurant is an elaborate homage to…

Row Hotel at Assembly Row Joins the Autograph Collection

The newest addition to Marriott’s Autograph Collection, the Row Hotel at Assembly Row, has opened in the Boston suburb of Somerville. Crafted by Colwen Designs, the urban luxury concept pays…