Hospitality Building
Designing spaces for hospitality, wellness, and community gathering that balance human needs with environmental context.
The Home: A Red Glass Cone Turns a Quiet Concrete Block into a Living Room for Students Abroad
A community center for international students that keeps its gray face to the river and saves its warmth for a red, tree-filled atrium at the back.
Mono in Mist: A Castle Wall Rebuilt in Water Hides Three Sunken Meditation Gardens in Fukuoka
Below a public park of pools and mist, a waterfall-ringed basin turns meditation, hotel rooms and a castle-wall metaphor into one descending journey.
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.
