The 50 Best Hotel Openings of 2025

1 Hotel Melbourne, Australia

Keys: 277
Design: FK Architecture, One Design Office, and Starwood Hotels’ in-house team
Why we love it: A LEED Silver-certified adaptive reuse project, the hotel repurposed more than 2,000 items from the historic Goods Shed No. 5—including nearly 49,000 square feet of timber. Elm trees became a reception desk, decommissioned railway bridges transformed into a staircase, and more than 7,000 plants bring Victoria’s biodiversity within.
Owner: Riverlee | Operator: Starwood Hotels

Photo by Mikkel Vang