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Five on Friday: May 28th, 2021
A look at the must-read news stories impacting the hospitality industry this week
Words by: Caitlin St John
The High-performing Urban Ecologies installation by Zaha Hadid Architects at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale; photo by Alessandra Chemollo
News:
A look at the must-read news stories impacting the hospitality industry this week
Words by: Caitlin St John
Biden revamps the Commission on Fine Arts, Zaha Hadid Architects makes its mark at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the reality of vaccine passports. All that and more in this week’s Five on Friday.
The race to develop a vaccine passport is on
Apfelhotel Torgglerhof by NOA Network of Architecture: 2020 Best of Year Winner for Resort
February 13, 2021
Photography by Alex Filz.
In the mountainous South Tyrol region of Italy, the Apfelhotel Torgglerhof property chronicles a family’s history dating to the 17th century and its evolution from farmland to super-charming hotel. The synopsis goes like this: In 1978, one of the sons built a small guest house and restaurant. NOA Network of Architecture joined the story in 2016, renovating the barn for guest rooms and the building to accommodates a restaurant and reception areas. In 2020, the Bolzano-based studio expanded the landscape.
Photography by Alex Filz.
Ten escapist hotels featuring luxury cabins nestled in the countryside
A new wave of hotels is offering guests the chance to sleep in individual cabins set amid spectacular landscapes instead of in a traditional building with corridors. Here s our selection of 10 of the most interesting cabin hotels.
From China to Denmark, studios including ZJJZ Atelier, Sigurd Larsen and Snøhetta have designed hotels featuring individual rooms scattered across hillsides, within forests or on cliff tops.
Here, guests can get a taste of off-grid living while still being able to order room service. Read on for ten of the best cabin hotels from Dezeen s archive:
Five Elevated Cabins Make This Hotel In Italy A Unique Destination
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Floris Green Suites Hotel is not your average tourist destination. It’s actually quite different from any other hotel and you can easily see why. This beautiful complex is located in Siusi, Italy and has magnificent mountain views and gorgeous landscape all around it. But instead of a linear row of hotel rooms inside a concrete box, these suites are actually designed in a very different and unique way.
The expansion of the hotel consists of five independent structures
Studio noa which stands for Network of Architecture was asked to expand the existing hotel and to add 10 new suites that the guests could enjoy. They did this by incorporating the suites into a series of standalone structures which are raised 3 meters above the ground.