With the year drawing to a close, some of us are already thinking about where to holiday in 2022. As part of our review of 2021, Dezeen rounds up 10 impressive new hotels, including Pharrell Williams Goodtime Hotel, a 17th-century monastery conversion and clifftop villas on the Jurassic Coast.
Shingle-clad holiday cabins feature in today s Dezeen Weekly newsletter
ZJJZ Atelier has completed a group of holiday cabins for the Tree Wow hotel in Jiangxi, China.
The pods are wrapped in wooden shingles and mirrored aluminium tiles in a bid to echo their scenic surroundings.
Readers adore them – one described the cabins as, strange yet charming.
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Designed by ZJJZ Atelier, the shingle-clad pods known as The Seeds provide an off-grid retreat in a lush area in Jiangxi, China.
In southeastern China’s Jiangxi province, the woodland Tree Wow hotel added four unique offerings to its portfolio of short-term holiday rentals. Designed by Shanghai–based firm ZJJZ Atelier, the cluster of ellipsoidal cabins are swathed in wooden shingles and mirrored aluminum tiles as a way to echo their natural setting.
The Seeds are a cluster of four cabins designed by Shanghai-based firm ZJJZ Atelier. The pod-like units are part of the Tree Wow hotel complex, which is known for its whimsical retreats in southeastern China’s rural Jiangxi province.
The Seeds are a group of shingle-clad pods nestled in a Chinese forest
ZJJZ Atelier has completed a cluster of ellipsoidal holiday cabins for a woodland hotel in Jiangxi, China, which are wrapped in wooden shingles and mirrored aluminium tiles.
Shanghai studio ZJJZ Atelier designed the buildings for the Tree Wow hotel, which specified that the pods should be inspired by natural forms to echo their scenic surroundings.
It is the second project the studio has designed for the complex, with the other being The Mushroom guesthouse that has a large conical roof.
Above: ZJJZ has designed a group of holiday cabins. Top image: they are part of a woodland hotel in China