Beijing is getting ready for the 2008 Summer Olympics which will start on August 8, 2008. New buildings are under construction, service system is getting better, roads are re-paved, and shortly the city is having an overall make up… It is similar to cleaning up your house before your visitors arrive… I have been a [...]

Last week, my colleague, Larry Drasin, showed me an article in the Hospitality Design magazine about one of his designs “Shade Hotel� in Manhattan Beach, California. Shade is the first luxury boutique hotel in Manhattan Beach that is synonymous with casual California beach culture. The hotel has the residential feeling which is a very popular [...]

Time magazine published the following article, by Liam Fitzpatrick, about the hotel design. Illustration for Time by Harry Harrison.
The mid-twentieth century, some say, was the golden age of the big, bland chain hotel. Vacationers of the 1950s or ’60s took out second mortgages to afford jet travel, supposedly to find, as they hurtled from destination [...]