Hospitality Building
Arquitectos Aliados Converts a Porto Factory into a Hotel Where Music Sets the Tempo
A 1980s electrical components factory in Porto becomes 62 hotel apartments organized around courtyards, gardens, and a 300-capacity concert hall.
Tadu Arquitetura Transforms a Jericoacoara Nightlife Landmark into a 33-Room Coastal Hotel
Café Jeri Hotel channels the rustic construction traditions of Brazil's northeastern coast into a layered retreat between dunes and sea.
noa* Stitches Five Medieval Buildings into One Hotel on Germany's Romantic Road
In Dinkelsbühl, a 15th-century patchwork of half-timbered structures becomes a 43-room hotel with a rooftop pool hidden beneath the gables.
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RA! Weaves a Boutique Hotel into the Pedestrian Streets of San José del Cabo
Laiva Plaza Hotel uses interwoven walls, Conkal red stucco, and a vertical courtyard to dissolve the threshold between town and hospitality.
Moguang Studio Carves a Meditative Hotel into the Tourist Chaos of Meili Snow Mountain
A 16-room timber hotel at the Thirteen Pagodas Viewing Platform in Yunnan rejects spectacle in favor of stillness and ritual procession.
UnIADA '26
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UnIADA '26
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Tropical House
Healing places through music.
Natan Gil Arquitetura Builds a Charred Timber Hotel Room as a Desert Oasis in Belo Horizonte's Forest
Installed at CASACOR Minas 2022 on the grounds of Niemeyer's Palácio das Mangabeiras, this 100 m² room channels the logic of a desert caravan stop.
Beatriz Henriques Weaves Climate and Craft into a Timber Vacation House in Trancoso
A 600-square-meter home in Bahia's coastal forest uses wind studies, woven screens, and passive cooling to live lightly in the tropics.
Studio Ben Allen Carves a Cocktail Library into the Heart of a Kent Farmhouse
A former farmhouse in rural Kent is rewired with bold color, carved timber alcoves, and a glazed conservatory that opens to the garden.
BICA Arquitectos Buries a Coastal Home in a Man-Made Dune on Portugal's Tróia Peninsula
A 300-square-meter house of timber, sand mortar, and travertine dissolves into the dune landscape it helped regenerate on the Alentejo coast.
Meyer-Grohbrügge Designs a Beijing Restaurant That Doubles as a Flower Studio by Day
Nine petal-shaped tables orbit a central fountain inside a hotel atrium in Beijing's Chaoyang district, shifting from florist to fine dining.
3XN and SRA Architectes Stack a Lenticular Hotel and Office Over Paris Railway Tracks
A 16,000 square meter mixed-use building anchors the emerging Les Groues district in Nanterre with self-shading checkerboard facades.
Manuelle Gautrand Wraps Two Airport Hotels in a Single Gradient Facade at Paris CDG
A 14,000 m² dual-hotel complex near Roissy Terminal 1 uses color-shifting aluminium panels to dissolve the monotony of airport architecture.
