HOTELS' Guide To Hotel Design
-- Hotels, 5/31/2009 11:00:00 PM
Looking for ideas on sprucing up your lobby, or just want to learn the basics of modern hotel room design? Check out our archive of beautiful hospitality spaces, sorted by topic...
Bath Design
Drawing The Baths Out
Thanks in large part to the emergence of the spa, baths are no longer an afterthought in guestroom design. By incorporating natural light and experimenting with alternative placement of baths and fixtures, designers are helping hotel bathrooms becomecleansing spaces that are bright, airy and open.
Bright & Beautiful
Open, spacious and windowed, bathrooms are the new "rooms with a view."
Boutique Hotel Design
Sell The Experience
The era of the design boutique hotel is over. No more “super good taste” beige on beige or taupe on taupe. No more impersonal cool.
Green Hotel Design
Seattle Hyatt Sets New-Build Green Design Example
Put simply, the new 346-room Hyatt at Olive 8 looks and sounds green. From the all-glass façade and living roof to the actual name of the hotel, you cannot help but get a green feeling with this LEED-certified property.
Carving Out A Green Future
A century-old department store is transformed into an eco-friendly luxury hotel, complete with a brand-new skylight atrium. In converting a 100-year-old department store into a Luxury Collection property, designers had to work hard to achieve LEED Silver certification.
A Primer On Green Design
New materials and a new market make eco-friendly design marketably appealing. Green is reshaping the look, layout and function of hotels worldwide. From limited-service to luxury, natural and local are the predominant themes.
High-Tech Design
Designed To Connect
With more wireless infrastructures being added, hotel guestrooms, lobbies and business centers have been undergoing rapid design shifts. Instead of lofty, stark designs, lobbies are being shaped with intimate seating areas and plenty of plug-in spots to gather around the laptop.
Hotel Room Design
History In The Remaking
Cramped quarters and inescapable historical back-stories can be a burden on designers charged with creating luxury guestrooms in adaptive re-use projects. On the other hand, unlike the limitless blank slates offered by new-build hotels, the challenges posed by old buildings force designers to be creative in ways they might otherwise never consider.
High Style, Home-Style
Boutique or bigger, hotels are increasingly becoming more hospitable.
Suite Sophisticates
Big, bold and beautiful, spectacular suite designs honor the past while luxuriously sweeping into the future. Communicating modern and luxury in the same gesture, today's sumptuous suites make bold statements.
Suite Differences
Break the rules for luxury suites and build up a steady market for rates at the top of the market. Design that works too hard to be over-the-top is the fastest way to the bottom of the luxury suite market.
Rev Up Revenue
Design is unlocking the money-making potential of wasted spaces and under-marketed treasures in hotels from Beverly Hills to London. Whether looking for incremental revenues or working to reposition a hotel, design is one of the most effective tools for building a better bottom line.
Designed To Sell
Marriott reveals a new vision for ownership concepts with saleable style and multigenerational appeal. The new paradigm of aspirational design for ownership concepts is making fractionals a value-for-money alternative to buying a second home.
Multi-Market Design
Celebrating Then & Now
Ancient cultural muses speak through modern design at Shangri-La Chengdu. Built at the juncture of auspicious history and affluent modernity in an area of great natural beauty, the hotel is designed to celebrate all three.
Party Like A Rock Star
An antidote to the plain vanilla hotel experience. Hard Rock San Diego attract smore than just the super-rich. Making good on Hard Rock's democratic “love all; serve all” credo while simultaneously setting precedents in energized design, Hard Rock San Diego reaches out to a broad demographic with guestroom stylings, unusual events space and third-party tie-ins.
A Multi-Purpose Masterpiece
Why target one market when you can sell across the board? Clever lifestyle design makes Traders Kuala Lumpur a profitable multi-tasker.
Renovation Design
Repotted Palmer House
A major renovation transforms underutilized space, enhances guestrooms and infrastructure at Chicago's Palmer House, a Hilton hotel.
Jumeirah Reflags Essex House
When Midtown Manhattan’s landmark Essex House became available, Jumeirah snatched it up; the question was, how would the Dubai-based company take the hotel, make it better and win the hearts of New Yorkers at the same time?
Raise The Roof On Hipness
From a sexy rooftop retreat to a hot bar and cool rooms, San Diego's Ivy Hotel raises the bar for renovation with its A-list clients and rates starting at US$450. San Diego's former Maryland Hotel is reinvented as a 5-star adult playground for high-spend domestic and international travelers, highly social locals and high-visibility celebrities have to new place to play.
Hôtel Fouquet’s Barrière
Only the seventh palace hotel in the City of Light—and the first to open since the George V (now the Four Seasons George V) made its debut in 1928, the 107-room Hôtel Fouquet’s Barrière combines the best of fin de siécle elegance with “jaw-dropping” modern touches.
Resort Design
All That Glam
The re-born Fontainebleau Miami Beach puts guests on center stage with a modern, fanciful look, while still paying homage to its postmodern creator, Morris Lapidus.
Fantasy Island
The spa experience does not stop at the W Retreat & Spa Maldives' treatment rooms. A mix of contemporary and organic style makes the entire resort an aspirational destination.
Restaurant Design
Wood Varieties Offer Sensuality
The spare interior of the restaurant at Shangri-La Hotel, Beijing, is surprisingly sensuous, thanks to the liberal use of wood. In addition to the plywood divider, bent strips of veneered plywood form the sidewall of the sushi bar.
Tell A Story
Great restaurant design should connect guests to the very heart of the concept, even if that means straying from tradition. Yoshi, the glamorous Japanese restaurant at Hotel Métropole Monte-Carlo, tells the story of Joël Robuchon's contemporary and poetic vision of Japan.
Modern Marvel
A Beaux Arts backdrop for Chef Alain Ducasse’s purist menus and the wine rituals that attend them, Adour Alain Ducasse at the St. Regis Hotel, New York, is an example of contemporizing without losing historical context.
Dazzle At Any Daypart
Carefully think out space, lighting and materials to create visually stunning, versatile all-day dining venues. While the overall expectation of quality is still very high, food is becoming more casual and restaurant design is becoming more important.
Kitchen Design
For Show And Flow
Chefs incorporate sexy, small plate designs to showcase their creations and capitalize on a lasting consumer trend. Semi-open kitchens aredesigned for efficient food production while also keeping in mind the idea of cooking as theater.
Spa Design
Redefining The Urban Spa
The Spa at Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago has the most spa guestroom suites in the world. What the location lacks in sun and sand it makes up for with spectacular city views, the largest number of spa suites in the world and a wide assortment of unusual urban spa features.
Pure Pleasure
Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman spa broadens the luxury resort's marketability with exclusive treatments and design inspired by glacial purity.
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