Hospitality Building
Designing spaces for hospitality, wellness, and community gathering that balance human needs with environmental context.
FAMM Arquitectura and Sulkin Askenazi Build an Inward-Looking Retreat Around Trees and a Creek in Nosara
In Nosara, Costa Rica, a 29-key adults-only hotel trades distant views for preserved trees, a creek, thatched pavilions and quiet plaster courtyards.
Stylus Architects Sinks a Larch-Clad Family House into a Back Plot in Roehampton
Behind a Victorian villa near Putney Heath, a half-buried house uses rooflights, board-marked concrete and oak joinery to keep a quiet street presence.
Atelier Guo Threads Concrete Pavilions and a Sunken DJ Booth Through a Former Sugar Refinery Hotel in Yangshuo
In Guilin's Yangshuo, 100 square meters of concrete pavilions and a sunken DJ booth turn leftover corners of a sugar mill hotel into places to linger.
feld72 Drapes a Merano Spa Hotel in an Aluminum Veil and Lifts a Faceted Mansard Over Its Historic Roofline
On the Passer Promenade in Merano, Hotel Aurora's anodized aluminum fins turn a rooftop extension into a faceted mansard that shifts with every view.
Jordi Herrero Turns Can Oliver, a Medieval Palace in Palma, into a Hotel That Lets Its Walls Tell the Story
In Palma's old town, a 12th-century palace becomes a 5-star hotel where black steel insertions sit against layered stone, brick and bricked-in arches.
graciastudio Scatters Twenty Stilted Cabins Across a Boulder-Strewn Hillside in Baja's Guadalupe Valley
In Ensenada's wine country, Encuentro Guadalupe lifts 20-square-meter EcoLofts off the ground on steel legs, letting the hillside run on beneath them.
PAVA architects Builds a Reclaimed-Timber Village of Courtyard Rooms beside the Mekong in Chiang Khan
In Chiang Khan, Thailand, a 1,200 m² hotel of reused timber, handmade brick and earth plaster gathers around old trees and triangular courtyards.
Z and BCG Arquitectos Wrap a Villa Carlos Paz Hotel Annex in Folded Metal, Red Steel and Lake Views
In Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina, Estilo MB Hotel gains a low podium of faceted metal, lake-view terraces and a red-columned restaurant.
Hjerta: A Hveragerði Thermal Bath That Bends Around the Trails and River Already on Site
Nadia Cheng and Enoch Liu curl an Icelandic bathhouse around a courtyard, keeping the trail and river bridge intact while staging heat and cold.
Tiago do Vale Turns an 18th-Century Mountain Farmstead into a Hotel That Defers to Its Own Past
On the slopes of Serra da Labruja in northern Portugal, granite, schist, and glass negotiate three centuries of rural building tradition.
Jérôme Lapierre Architecte Scatters a Family Retreat Across a Quebec Hillside Between Lake and Forest
Breathe Lodge Residence clusters brick and timber volumes along a winding path in the Eastern Townships, framing winter landscapes at every turn.
Michele Sicher Architetto Weaves a Wellness Pavilion into the Alpine Forests of Trentino
Pineta Nature Resort balances timber tradition and contemporary transparency at 900 meters in Italy's Val di Non valley.
