The Sea Ranch

The Sea Ranch is a 1970’s luxury residential development in a remote area of Hong Kong’s Lantau Island. After initial boom, it experienced fall in prices, decline in occupancy and mismanagement. In 2008, “TimeOut Hong Kong” compared it to a city hit by a neutron bomb. It wrote: “The southwest Lantau ghost town is shabby, […]

Wienerberger Brick Award. Paasitorni Hotel & Conference Centre

Special Prize Winner: K2S Architects ltd. for the Paasitorni Hotel & Conference Centre by WienerbergerOfficial

Ferrari World, Abu Dhabi – Destinology

Benoy is an award winning international firm of Architects, Masterplanners, Interior Architects and Graphic Designers working from design studios in the United Kingdom, Abu Dhabi, Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai and Beijing. The company is primarily known for its global retail architecture, with projects such as Westfield London UK, Elements, Hong Kong, and […]

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Building For The Future Next Generation Architecture in India

The architecture of India is rooted in its history, culture and religion. Indian architecture progressed with time and assimilated many influences. post by TrDocumentary

Ace Hotel

This video shows the late Alex Calderwood talking about his newest opening, the Ace Hotel in Shoreditch, London. Tragically this same hotel was where Alex was found dead, just six weeks after its opening on… youtube post by evidancenews7 Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles opened early 2014 in the historic United Artists building in Downtown […]

Pico Place Affordable Housing Green Features

Pico Place is a 32-unit LEED Platinum affordable apartment building consisting of 2 and 3-bedroom family units with a common laundry room, community room and subterranean parking. by Lawrence Scarpa The project provides a connection between the tall Sheraton hotel to the east and the beach to the west by placing the building volume on […]

Snow Hotel , Lapland

The Snow Hotel in Lapland, Finland, is a destination that’s hard to forget. The Snow Village is an arctic adventure offering a large ice hotel with an ice restaurant and ice bar, along with activities such as an ice maze and snow slides. Opened in 2000, this ice hotel’s accommodation consists of 20 igloo bedrooms […]

Clarion Hotel Sign by Gert Wingårdh

With 558 rooms, Clarion Hotel Sign is the largest hotel in Stockholm and offers an extraordinary concept featuring Scandinavian architecture, design and culinary arts. post by Anant Vithlani Gert Wingårdh (born 1951) is a Swedish architect whose company, Wingårdh arkitektkontor, maintains an international practice. Gert Wingårdh started as an interior decorator in the 1970s. After […]

Q! HOTEL BERLIN by GRAFT

The new “design hotels” are unique experiences of architectural spaces and cosmopolitan hubs for the traveler. They can seduce you to experiment with old habits, and inspire new rituals. Graft laid out a hotel landscape that changes the classic spacial canon through the topographical folding of the program. by Design Hotels    

Semiramis Hotel / Athens

In a city known for its ancient past, the Semiramis is a hotel of the future. Facing a tranquil green park in the Kifissia area of north Athens, the hotel is the creation of designer, Karim Rashid, well-known for his fluid, soft style that mingles rounded forms with bright, lively colours. The Semiramis is no […]

PARKROYAL hotel by WOHA

This project is awarded Singapore’s Green Mark Platinum, the nation’s highest environmental certification , the hotel opened last january by Hotel Video Guide WOHA is a Singapore-based architecture practice, founded in 1994 by Wong Mun Summ (born 18 August 1962) and Richard Hassell (born 28 October 1966). In 1989, Wong graduated from the National University […]