Hotel Alcatraz
Last year I had a chance to visit the famous “Alcatraz”, and shared my view here. Today I was surprised to read an article in the Telegraph about “The Rock”. The United States’ National Park Service is planning to convert part of the prison into a hotel. I wonder if it will be another Indian [...]
Best Casino Interior Design Award
Macau is your new address for Las Vegas in Asia. Glamorous new hotels and casinos are opening one after another which is a great opportunity for us who are in the hospitality design business. Remedios Siembieda, where I have been working more than 7 years,
Planning for 8.8.8
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 [...]
Burj Dubai
Everyone is talking about Burj Dubai (meaning Dubai Tower), from newspaper columns to architectural magazines to radio talks… As of 21 July 2007, the tower’s developers reported the Burj Dubai’s height as 512.1 meters (1,680.1 feet), with 141 completed floors, surpassing the Taipei 101 (509.2 m – 1,671 ft) as the tallest high-rise building in [...]
Shangri-La meets Europe
Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has signed a long-term lease agreement with BAI Bauträger Austria Immobilien GmbH, the development and management arm of the Immobilien Holding Group, for the Shangri-La Hotel, Vienna, opening late 2009.
HD Award
Remedios Siembieda, where I have been working for almost 7 years, won the annual hospitality design (HD) award for the Shilla Hotel Seoul, Korea.
Hydropolis Underwater Hotel, Dubai
Currently under construction in Dubai, Hydropolis is the world’s first luxury underwater hotel. It will include three elements: the land station, where guests will be welcomed, the connecting tunnel, which will transport people by train to the main area of the hotel, and the 220 suites within the submarine leisure complex. It is one of [...]
Ren Building, Shanghai
Ren Building is an interesting design by PLOT that has since split up into BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) and JDS (Julien De Smedt). As we all know, Chinese characters evolved from pictures, this one “人” in particular from a picture of a man walking. There are lots of discussions going on about the building such [...]
See-Through Hotel, Norway
Belgian-born architect Carsten Höller has developed a unique sculpture, which resembles a giant floating crystal on the sea. The sculpture, which doubles as a hotel room, is constructed from semi transparent glass which allows one way viewing from the inside.
The World’s Sexiest Hotel
Adam & Eve Hotel combines design, nature and sensuality to create the newest concept hotel in the Mediterranean, (Belek – Antalya – Turkey) opened in late 2006. Merging design with nature, elegance with eroticism and luxury with exclusivity. Adam & Eve has provoked intrigue since its launch was announced.
Art of travel
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 [...]
