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Karloca Hotel

Zoltan Madosfalvi Hotel Architecture

Karloca

Karloca is a hotel designed as a conference and wellness centre for business travellers and families. The building has seven levels and a net area of 15,000 square metres, containing a lobby, a bar, a wellness area, a sauna area and guest rooms. Community functions share one large open space, where subtle changes of material mark the boundary of each area. A sculptural mass in the lobby serves as a Turkish cafe and recalls the local history. Raw native materials form the external cladding, and large glass surfaces keep the interiors bright.

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Kun Hotel

Han Lu Hotel Interior

Kun

Kun is the interior design of a hotel in a tourist area of Taichung, Taiwan, with a total floor area of 5620 square meters. The design gives special attention to the arcade aisle that leads to the parking lot and connects the ground floor with the first floor. The arches are formed with iron pipes fixed under the reinforced concrete ceiling at different slopes and angles. Light projected from the floor creates layers of light and shadow. The aim is to turn parking, a common difficulty in the area, into a calm and pleasant arrival.

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Chinese Quadrangle Hotel

Zhang ZhaoYong Hotel Architecture

Chinese Quadrangle

Chinese Quadrangle is a hotel built in the form of a traditional Chinese courtyard house in Luoyang. The project covers 5460 square meters and was completed in 2019. A brick screen wall marks the entrance, followed by heads shaped as the twelve Chinese zodiac signs. The arrayed brick walls are made entirely of grey recycled bricks. The second inner courtyard holds guest rooms and public facilities, reached through a winding veranda, and the third inner courtyard contains the reception hall. Layered spaces bring the landscape into the courtyard.

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Kuara Hotel

David Guerra Hotel Architecture

Kuara

Kuara is a hotel built in a preserved rain forest area on the coast of Arraial d'Ajuda in Bahia, Brazil. The architecture combines vernacular and modern forms and seeks a close relation with the surrounding nature. Wood is used on floors, walls, louvers, brise soleils and panels, with species such as cumaru, tatajuba, ipe and peroba. Bamboo, natural fibers, straw, wicker, leather and Brazilian stones are combined with stone imported from Italy in floors and bathrooms. All native vegetation was preserved, and the new buildings stand where the former hotel buildings stood.

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Deyun Honey Sweet Hotel

Xu Chengbo Hotel Interior

Deyun Honey Sweet

Deyun Honey Sweet is a hotel interior designed as a traditional Chinese quadrangle courtyard. The project faces south and is composed of multiple courtyards, linked by an axis with middle, east and west directions. Functional areas include a Chinese banquet hall for 120 guests, a multi-function hall, meeting rooms and a tea room. The main materials are jade, jade carving, wood carving, gold brick, gold foil and Mongolia black stone. Details such as the screen wall, copper lion sculpture, black brick, eave and roof beam restore traditional building techniques.

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New Beacon Hotel

Lichen Ding Hotel Interior

New Beacon

Space is a container. The designer infuses emotion and space elements into it. Combining with the characteristics of space noumenon, the Designer completes the deduction from emotion to sequence through the arrangement of space route, and then forms a complete story. Human emotion is naturally precipitated and sublimed through experience. It uses modern techniques to metaphor the ancient city's culture, and shows the aesthetic wisdom for thousands of years. The design, as a spectator, slowly tells how a city nourishes the contemporary human life with its context.

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Bay Tokyo Hamamatucho Hotel

WATARU OMAMEUDA Hotel Architecture

Bay Tokyo Hamamatucho

This is the hybrid hotel which has capsule beds and guest rooms for various accommodation styles in Tokyo. You can stay here not just for business trips but sightseeing and foreign tourists visiting Japan too. All guest rooms have big window to feel opened and look out over the town. Enjoy relaxing, cooking, eating, daydreaming at common spaces of kitchen and rooftop and so on.

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The Ecojoy City Hotel

Piheng Yang Hotel Interior

The Ecojoy City

The Ecojoy City is a boutique hotel interior located in a renovated building in Shenzhen. The design places low carbon principles first, supported by business, fashion and leisure functions. Recyclable metal, environmentally friendly flooring, wall materials and wall hangings are used across the 19280 square metre space. The limited ceiling height and the thick column grid of the original structure guide the layout. Green plants are placed indoors to link interior and exterior views. A water metering system records and analyses water use.

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Crystal Hotel

Jiaqiang Xu Hotel Interior

Crystal

Crystal is a hotel interior in Shanghai, China, covering 8000 square meters. The design theme is based on the light of crystal. Smooth lines run through the ceiling, the walls and the floor, dividing the interior into different functional areas. Metal geometric shapes on the surfaces give the space a three-dimensional character. Simple and natural materials are combined with changes in level to create a quiet and comfortable atmosphere. Greenery placed inside the hotel links travelers with nature and offers calm within the busy city.

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Jinbei Noble Hotel

Shaoyun Li Hotel Interior

Jinbei Noble

Jinbei Noble is a hotel interior located in Sihanouk port, Cambodia. The design joins the idea of an island with contemporary court style, Norman style and colonial Nanyang style. The lobby is built with marble, textured wood, metal and crystal, and uses water wave textures and refracted light. Starfish and shell forms are used as art installations to soften the hard surfaces. Room walls are finished in fish belly white stone and floors in black stone. Linear light strips follow the walls and floors of the corridors.

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Ibis Styles Boleslawiec Hotel

Magdalena Federowicz-Boule Hotel Interior

Ibis Styles Boleslawiec

Ibis Styles Boleslawiec is a hotel interior in Boleslawiec, a Polish city associated with ceramics, cobalt color and distinctive patterns. Local ceramic craft is the main theme of the design. Colorful, saturated spaces combine traditional motifs with modern trends. Reception desks take the form of oversized cups. Other details recall pottery making, such as a potter's wheel pattern on the carpet and a table leg shaped on a wheel. A separate zone for children holds a wall installation where patterns can be made with blocks.

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Meixi Boutique Hotel

Xin Lv Hotel Interior

Meixi Boutique

Meixi Boutique is a hotel interior located in Harbin, China. The design theme is the glacier century, expressed through balanced colors and combined materials to create a calm and comfortable space. The lobby background uses a two-way triangle pattern. Silk cloth is printed and applied to triangular bases, so the image looks like a glacier from the left side and like a city from the right side. Marble, wood finish, adhesive glass, wallpaper, wall cloth and latex paint are used. The project covers 2366 square meters and aims to raise environmental awareness.

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