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MeeHotel: Southern China teems with bamboo forests, and at Shenzhen’s MeeHotel guests feel as if they are walking through one. At this urban property, Hong Kong practice Panorama Design Group gives bamboo the spotlight, pairing it with other natural elements like stone and diatom mud-finished walls. There are floor-to-ceiling screens fashioned from the woven material, a traditional Chinese handicraft. It also wraps pitched ceilings—as well as the dramatic cathedral-style version in the Sky Café, which is capped in a skylight and complemented by suspended LED rings meant to emulate moonlight. Bamboo also appears in the guestrooms, where it is combined with rattan in the commanding headboards. Most eye-catching of all is the internal courtyard. Linking all the floors, it is dominated by a bamboo installation that whimsically conjures birds in flight. (Photo by GD Media/POPO VISION)