The 2025 HD Awards Project Winners

GUESTROOMS
Fidelity Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio

Working within a small floorplate, Fidelity Hotel’s 97 guestrooms are organized into 13 different types. Unifying these accommodations is the artwork placed above stone shelves at the entries and the deeply hued arched portals that open to rooms adorned with floral wallcoverings, velvet headboards, and leather lounge chairs.

“We imagined a space where one might feel as if they were in a storied hotel on New York’s Upper East Side or a friend’s pied-à-terre in London,” says Curioso cofounder and partner Daniel Pierce. “There’s an aspect to the design that feels foreign to Cleveland but familiar in sentiment. We celebrated that duality in the design—an Old World frame with new world flair.”

Architecture Firm: Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture, Chicago | Interior Design Firms: Curioso and Looney & Associates, Chicago | Owner: NuovoRE | Owner’s Representative: JLL | Operator: New Waterloo | Purchasing Firm: Benjamin West