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    Call for entries to AHEAD MEA awards 2020

    Dezeen promotion: architects and designers working across the Middle East and Africa are invited to submit their entries to the 2020 edition of the AHEAD awards. Recognising exceptional hospitality projects from across the globe, the AHEAD awards focuses on four different regions: the Middle East and Africa (MEA), the Americas, Asia and Europe. The Gorgeous […] More

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    Kelly Wearstler designs relaxed and beachy Santa Monica Proper hotel

    American interior designer Kelly Wearstler scoured vintage shops to source the eclectic furniture that decorates the living room-style lobby of this hotel in Santa Monica, California. Santa Monica Proper occupies the 1920s Santa Monica Professional Building and a curvilinear extension designed by local firm Howard Laks Architects. Located on Wilshire Boulevard in the coastal Californian […] More

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    Grzywinski+Pons turns 1970s office block into Locke at Broken Wharf hotel

    Chainmail curtains contrast with butterscotch-coloured walls in this hotel created by architecture studio Grzywinski+Pons, which occupies a 1970s office block in London. Situated near the Millennium bridge, Locke at Broken Wharf has been designed by New York-based studio Grzywinski+Pons to reflect the dichotomy of London’s cityscape. The seven-storey hotel takes over a 1970s office building, […] More

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    Five hotels and holidays homes that double up as showrooms

    Holiday homes and hotels that also function as shoppable furniture showrooms are growing in popularity. Here are five examples including a Copenhagen hotel, a Melbourne apartment and a Hamptons house. Stephen Kenn Loft, Los Angeles, by Stephen Kenn Studio Stephen Kenn Studio turned a Los Angeles apartment inside an old factory building into “part showroom, […] More

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    At The Audo hotel “you can purchase everything you see”

    Copenhagen’s The Audo is a hybrid hotel and furniture showroom says Menu founder Bjarne Hansen, in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD awards. The Audo, which was awarded the title of New Concept of the Year at the 2019 AHEAD Europe hospitality awards, is a 10-room hotel in Copenhagen that Danish design brand Menu designed […] More

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    Claesson Koivisto Rune converts 1920s bank building into K5 Tokyo hotel

    Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has unveiled a boutique hotel in Tokyo, featuring 24 new design products. K5 Tokyo occupies a converted bank building next to the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which survived bombing during the second world war. Claesson Koivisto Rune’s team adopted an “everything-is-possible attitude” to design and delivered the hotel in just 14 months. […] More

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    Ace Hotel Kyoto reveals interiors designed by Kengo Kuma and Commune

    Ace Hotel has revealed the first photos of its new venue in Kyoto, designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and Los Angeles-based design studio Commune. Now open for bookings from April, Ace Hotel Kyoto is the brand’s first hotel in Japan. It is housed within the former Kyoto Central Telephone Company, built by architect Tetsuro Yoshida […] More

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    Palazzo Daniele is a “contemporary place with an ancient structure”

    Architect Roberto Palomba describes his firm’s approach to renovating the Palazzo Daniele hotel in Puglia, Italy, in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD Awards. Palazzo Daniele, which was named Hotel of the Year at the 2019 AHEAD Europe hospitality awards, is a nine-suite boutique hotel housed in a 158-year-old palazzo located near the […] More