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Avella Taller de Arquitectura builds two cabins for Venezuelan summer camp

August 2, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
Two cabins Venezuela summer camp by ATA

Avella Taller de Arquitectura has reconstructed a recreational summer camp in Venezuela, including solid brick buttresses that draw on a nearby Spanish colonial fortification. Two Cabins in Yaracuy is located in the Massif de Nirgua, a mountainous region not far from the Caribbean coast. The children’s camp originally consisted of cabins built from wattle and

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The Menhaden hotel offers salute to maritime heritage of Long Island

July 6, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
The Menhaden boutique hotel in Long Island, New York by Kristen Pennessi

Attorney Kristen Pennessi has designed this boutique hotel in Greenport Village, Long Island, as a modern reference to the area’s fishing and whaling heritage. Pennessi and her husband Dan partnered up with Manhattan architect Tom Pedrazzi to design the 16-room property at the town entrance – formerly the site of a famous antique carousel that

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Juana Bautista Hotel brings “avant-garde touches” to colonial mansion outside Guadalajara

June 29, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
Juana Bautista Boutique Hotel in Tlaquepaque, Mexico

Creative firm Grupo Mitote has overhauled a 16-century colonial mansion near Guadalajara, Mexico to create the Juana Bautista Hotel. The historic estate, located in the artistic enclave of Tlaquepaque, is treasured for being the site in which General Celestino Negrete signed his support for the Plan of Iguala, a milestone in Mexico’s independence from Spain

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El Rey Court motel in Santa Fe is redesigned to “showcase its bones”

June 23, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
El Rey Court hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico by Jay Carroll and Jeff Burns

Husband-and-wife creative team Jay and Alison Carroll have used historically inspired decor from the American Southwest to redesign a storied adobe motor inn in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The California-based couple rehabbed the 86-room motel in partnership with Austin-based property manager Jeff Burns. He had overnighted at the roadside lodge nearly a decade ago after

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Mason Studio designs Kimpton Saint George hotel as “homage to Toronto”

June 16, 2019 Paul Jebara 0

Canadian firm Mason Studio has designed this hotel in Toronto to feature an abundance of local flavour, including decorative archways and a nod to the city’s famous albino squirrels. Located within a former Holiday Inn in the city’s trendy Annex neighbourhood, the 188-room property marks the first outpost of the Kimpton hotel branch in Canada.

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The Hoxton hotel opens in former meatpacking building in Chicago

June 9, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
The Hoxton Chicago by GREC Architects

London hotelier Ennismore has designed an outpost of The Hoxton within an old meatpacking facility in Chicago, including a co-working lobby space and rooftop pool. The Hoxton Chicago marks the third US outpost of The Hoxton, following others in Portland, Oregon and Brooklyn, New York. Ennismore’s in-house design studio transformed a former meatpacking facility in

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Hamptons motel once owned by Donna Karan becomes A Room at the Beach

June 1, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
A Room at the Beach boutique hotel by Lucy Swift Weber and Charles Lemonides in Bridgehampton, New York

A Bridgehampton bungalow featuring a redwood forest planted by television personality Martha Stewart has been redesigned as a bohemian hideaway for summer beach seekers. The boutique Hamptons hotel called A Room at the Beach opened in May, and is located less than three kilometres from the Atlantic in a popular New York holiday corridor. Co-owners

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Yabu Pushelberg designs The Times Square Edition as “ultimate counterpoint to its surroundings”

May 25, 2019 Paul Jebara 0

Design firm Yabu Pushelberg has completed a decadent hotel in New York’s Times Square featuring lush green walls and a moody dining room with electric blue banquettes. The Times Square Edition in New York is billed as Times Square’s first design hotel and an “elevated” entertainment destination for locals, including multiple restaurants, bars, and a

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Sordo Madaleno completes Solaz Resort in Cabo with stacked blocks and cascading terraces

May 18, 2019 Paul Jebara 0

Mexico City firm Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos has stepped and staggered a series of buildings and terraces to form the sprawling Solaz resort in Los Cabos. The property sits on 24 acres (9.8 hectares) of rugged waterfront terrain on the Baja Peninsula between Cabo San Lucas and the historic San Jose del Cabo. “The extraordinary natural

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Monteverdi Hotel avoids “folkloristic approach” to restoration of medieval Tuscan hamlet

May 11, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
Monteverdi Tuscany boutique hotel by Michael Cioffi and Ilaria Miani

Crumbling buildings have been transformed into the boutique Monteverdi Hotel in Tuscany, which includes rustic bedroom suites and a cavernous spa. Monteverdi Hotel is the brainchild of American italophile Michael Cioffi, who has spent years reviving the hamlet in Val d’Orcia – a UNESCO World Heritage Site in central Italy. Old structures throughout the village, including

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