Hospitality Design

Construction on Waldorf Astoria New York Enters Phase Two

Restoration efforts at the Waldorf Astoria New York have moved into their second phase, Anbang Insurance Group announced earlier this month. Slated for completion in 2021, upgrades to the famed…

Aloft Debuts Latest Florida Hotel

Aloft has added yet another South Florida property with the opening of Aloft Hotel Miami Aventura. Designed with an urban, industrial-style aesthetic courtesy of Boston-based Group One Partners, the hotel…

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…