Leather seats in the space reportedly cost $14,000 a piece!
Hospitality and the Tech Boom
The overlap of business and leisure typical of workplace culture at tech companies has undoubtedly influenced hospitality design
Marriott has the largest construction pipeline of any franchise company in the U.S.
Guest Experience: A Lesson in Flexibility
Some huge cultural shifts in the way people use the built environment are tearing across building typologies, geographies and demographics, and conversations at the proverbial watercooler reveal that designers at CallisonRTKL have taken note.
Biophilic Design – Key to Successful Designs in Hospitality
As humans, we are part of the natural world. We are hard wired to appreciate natural elements and analogues to nature. Clever designers are recognizing that biophilic design is an evidenced-based strategy for creating beautiful and economically viable hospitality environments.
NoMad's New MADE Hotel
EMC2 Hotel Chicago
Do you want to make your visit to NeoCon 2018 special. Then you might want to get your hotel reservations in today. David Rockwell and his team have designed a new 195-room hotel in Chicago that merges science and art in a new 21-storey building designed by Koo & Associates.
The Lobby Experience Opens Doors- Q+A with Hospitality Designers
There has been a big shift in hospitality during the last five years. Public spaces in hotels, especially the lobby, are officially the front and center attraction. While they have always been the first thing guests see, there is a new focus. This relates to setting the stage for experience while simultaneously creating engaging spaces where people want to hang out, and importantly, spend money.
Chicago has become a testing ground for the next wave of restaurant design
Though Chicago may be best known for deep-dish pizza and hotdogs, the food scene in the past decade has been defined more by several highly experimental restaurants such as the Michelin three-star micro-gastronomy restaurant Alinea.
JOI-Design Bridges Past with Present at the Capri by Fraser Berlin
While contemporary hotels are fun to experience, the real beauty of visiting a new city is getting to know its history and culture. With this in mind, JOI-Design bridges the past and future of Berlin at the new Capri by Fraser Berlin hotel. Located on Spree Island at the Petriplatz city square, this modern hotel integrates with a museum and church to give guests a unique destination to explore, all the while learning about the city’s heritage.
At a Chicago Embassy Suites, Sky Garden is as Local as It Gets
The hotel industry has embraced the farm-to-table movement, so much so, it’s no longer a novel idea but a practical way to source fresh ingredients locally and strengthen the guest’s connection to the land. From an onsite rooftop garden to a vertical hydroponic farm, it’s as local as local food gets.
The Detroit Foundation Hotel
WeWork and WeLive will take over an entire 36-story mixed-use tower in Seattle
A new 36-story mixed-use tower designed by Perkins + Will in Seattle will be the new site of WeWork’s expanding WeLive co-living residential program.
A coworking hotel: Bob Hotel, Paris, France
While co-working spaces are nothing new in Paris, there’s never been a hotel devoted to the cause until now. Previously a social housing centre, the Bob Hotel, say design duo Dorothée Delaye and Daphné Desjeux, was inspired by a curious and friendly imaginary character. The name, however, is an acronym for ‘business on board’ and the hotel is the first in the city to formally offer its public spaces for locals and guests to work in.
How Hotelier Ian Schrager Made A Luxury Hotel For Budget Travelers
Though Public is poised to compete with boutique hotels, Schrager also sees the brand, which he plans to expand to gateway cities such as London and Las Vegas, as a response to the “mortal threat” that Airbnb poses to the hospitality business. Here’s his formula for building a new breed of hotel.
West Elm picks Portand, Maine, for a sixth hotel
West Elm named Portland, Maine, its sixth site for a boutique hotel location with a 150-room property planned to open near the waterfront in 2020.
Classic West Meets Contemporary Cool at the Anvil Hotel in Jackson, Wyoming
New York City-based Studio Tack transforms a 1950s motel into a modern property that incorporates local culture into its cosmopolitan design and execution.
A New Chicago Bed-and-Breakfast Occupies a Former Publishing House
Aptly named The Publishing House, a just-opened bed-and-breakfast in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood avoids the kitsch of traditional B&Bs.
Subway introduces fresh, “modern” store concept
US consultancy FRCH Design Worldwide has worked on the restaurant chain’s Fresh Forward store concept, which features an updated food display system and self-service kiosks.
Artisanal Tacos on Paper Plates
What makes something a food court, and what makes it a food hall? One is the most discredited concept in 20th-century dining, while the other is the hottest new idea of the 21st: an open floor plan; fresh food prepared in front of your eyes; a post-industrial space, or at least one with high ceilings, exposed wiring, and hanging air ducts. Good-looking people hunched on long benches over small plates or perched on stools around dozens of tiny countertops. The accidental flash of a bad Instagram. The places brim with noise—perhaps even a kind of working sound, an occasional butcher’s chop, something left over from a more utilitarian period, or at least the roar of an espresso machine.