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Project: Bella Sky Hotel
Architect: 3XN Architects
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Client: Bella Center A/S
Size: 42,000 m2
Height: 76.5 m (23 floors)
Number of Rooms: 814 rooms and 30 conference rooms
Engineer: Rambøll Denmark
Photography: Adam Mørk

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Project: Vertical Village
Architect: Graft
           Lars Krückeberg
           Thomas Willemeit
           Wolfram Putz
           Gregor Hoheisel
           Alejandra Lillo
Collaborator: Brad Pitt
Location: Dubai, U.A.E.
Type: Urban Planning, Highrise, Hotel.

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Project: The Library Koh Samui
Author: Tirawan Songsawat
Location: Chaweng Beach, Koh Samui, Thailand
Managing Director: Kasemtham Sornsong
General Manager: Jirapa Akkaraj

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Project: Hotel and Hotel Center
Author: SHL Architects
schmidt hammmer lassen architects
Project Partner: Kim Holst Jensen, schmidt hammer lassen architects
Project Architect: Kristian Lars Ahlmark, schmidt hammer lassen architects
Location: Helsingborg, Sweden
Client: Midroc Property Development (Sweden)
Area: Hotel and congress 16,900 m2/ Housing and shops 17,100 m2
Competition year: 2009
Competition type: Property development competition
Contractor: Midroc Property Development
Landscape architect: schmidt hammer lassen architects in collaboration with Masu Planning Landscape (Denmark)
Executive consultants: Sweco (Sweden)

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INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA – The new 300-room, five-star-rated Sheraton Incheon Hotel recently opened in New Songdo City, Korea, offering a new state-of-the-art facility in the heart of a new urban center. The new 25-story hotel is adjacent to the city’s new Convention Center, the Northeast Asia Trade Tower and a large retail mall. HOK provided architectural design, landscape design and sustainable design services for the new 500,000-square-foot, LEED® certified hotel.

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Architects: Duangrit Bunnag Architect Limited – DBALP
Location: Cha Am, Petchaburi, Thailand
Principal in Charge: Duangrit Bunnag
Collaborator Architects: Saranya Srisakulchairak / Architect Group Head, Kahitha Boonyatasaneekul / Architect, Rawin Sangsittayakorn / Architect, Prinpond Boonkham / Interior, Thiti Tritrakarn / Landscape Archiect
Contractor: Square Tech Co.,Ltd.
Structural Engineer: EMS Consultant Co.,Ltd.
Client: KS Resort and Spa Co.,Ltd.
Site area: 30,000 sqm
Building area: 18,000 sqm
Project year: 2008 sqm
Photographs: DBALP & KS Resort and Spa

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Project: MOD05 LIVING HOTEL
Architect: Enrica Mosciaro
Collaborators: Katerina Samsarelou, Nuria Valldeneu, Jordi Castel, Martin Ares, Paola Chellini, Claudia Manferrari, Wolf Weikart, Sandra Vidal, Carolina Vargas
Studio: Fusina 6, Barcelona
Location: Italy
Realization: 2007
Construction Managers: Andrea Aloisi, Enrica Mosciaro
Photos: Ciro Frank Schiappa

Hotels always have two souls: the dynamic public spirit of the spaces where people come and go, meet and go about their business, and the private feel of sheltered spaces for resting and spending the night.

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Project: Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi
Architects: Asymptote Architecture
               Hani Rashid + Lise Anne Couture
Local Architects: Dewan Architects & Engineers, Abu Dhabi
                     Tilke & Partners W.L.L., Dubai
Structural Engineers: Dewan Architects & Engineers, Abu Dhabi
                         ARUP, New York
Grid-Shell Engineers: Schlaich Bergermann und Partner (SBP), Stuttgart
                         Waagner-Biro, Vienna
MEP Engineer: Red Engineering Middle East, Dubai
Façade Consultants: Front Inc., New York
                       TAW & Partner, Hamburg
Grid-Shell Building Information Modeling (BIM) Consultant: Gehry Technologies, Los Angeles & New York
Interior Architecture: Jestico + Whiles, London
                          Richardson Sadeki, New York
                          De8 Architetti, Bergamo, Italy
Lighting Consultants: LAPD Lighting Design, Hertfordshire, UK
                         Bartenbach LichtLabor GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria
                         Red Engineering Middle East, Dubai
                         ARUP Lighting, New York
Grid-Shell Lighting Consultant: ARUP Lighting, New York
Link Bridge Engineers: ARUP Bridge, New York
                          Centraal Staal, Groningen, The Netherlands
Landscape Design: Cracknell Landscape Architects, Abu Dhabi

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Our friends from Yellow agency, sent us “Hotel Consolidacón” by Camprubí i Santacana Arquitectes.

It will no longer be so easy to overlook Monroyo, in the heart of the county of Matarraña in Teruel (Spain). The usual stopovers to buy some of its ham or pick some wild mushrooms or truffles in season can now be lengthened thanks to a striking new hotel on the outskirts of the town, next to the Consolación Hermitage. The hotel designed by the firm of Camprubí i Santacana Arquitectes is an innovative project comprising a central house containing the services and communal areas, plus ten rooms built independently.

The hotel, which has borrowed the name of the hermitage, is notable for its close links with the natural world. For a start, the rooms are not classical hotel bedrooms but individual cubes clad with wood, set 100 m from the hotel’s central nucleus on a hillside reached via a natural garden of rosemary and thyme. They are called cubes: 36 sq. m of simple, almost minimalist architecture. Black slate floor, a bathtub dug out of the selfsame floor, a bathroom with a separate shower, a suspended chimney, an armchair and a reading lamp. Each cube has a large west-facing window and terrace, framing a view exclusively confined to rolling hills shrouded in pine trees, with not a single building in sight.
Total privacy.

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