Where New Ideas Check In
This is the new hospitality. Lifestyle & Creative Hotels brings together the brands and concepts rethinking what a hotel can be—from social lobbies and cultural programming to co-working, co-living and spaces designed as much for locals as for overnight guests. Often concept-driven and sometimes part of a new-generation hotel group, these are places experimenting with how we work, meet, eat, sleep and travel. Not every idea will reinvent hospitality, but we like the hotels willing to try.
nhow Brussels Bloom Brutalism Reimagined Through Bold Contemporary Art Why DNA Hotels Loves It ● A striking Brutalist landmark transformed into one of Brussels' most creative lifestyle hotels. ● Vibrant interiors curated around original artwork by British artist Jessica Thacker. ● A bold fusion of industrial architecture, contemporary design, and artistic expression. From Brutalist Landmark…
read moreThe Social Hub Delft – The Netherlands Where student life, design and innovation collide in one very social experiment. Why DNA Hotels Loves It ● A hybrid hotel, student residence and co-working hub that challenges the traditional idea of what a hotel should be. ● Interiors take their cues from Delft’s engineering and technology culture,…
read moreKimpton Saint George is a design hotel located between the Annex neighbourhood’s bohemian charm and Yorkville’s affluent sophistication.
read moreSteering away from traditional thinking in hospitality—instead allowing guests to curate their own ideal of the perfect stay—Rotterdam’s Hotel Unplugged connects the next generation of travellers; those looking to “Plug-in to a hotel, to feel Unplugged” by opting for community and experience over space and status.
read moreSoho House Mumbai is a boho chic members club and hotel located on the beach in Juhu and offers several restaurants and bars, a gym and a rooftop swimming pool.
read moreLocated in a 1928 building once home to the original George Washington Hotel at 23 Lexington Avenue—a storied Flatiron venue oft frequented by writers, musicians, and artists of note—the latest venture by Sydell Group‘s free-spirited Freehand brand marks its arrival in the Big Apple.
read moreNewly built in a classic Swiss chalet style, the ASPEN alpin lifestyle hotel in Grindelwald is set at the foot of the famous Eiger North Face, next to the hiking trails and ski slopes of the Kleine Scheidegg and Männlichen areas. Mountain sports, nature and animal themes are evident throughout the hotel, which fuses the classic with an authentic Alpine Chic style. Outside the magnificence of the Bernese Alps await.
read moreMoxy Kaunas Center, Lithuania Interwar modernism gets a playful new chapter in Lithuania's second city Why DNA Hotels Loves It ● G. Natkevičius & Partners took their cues from Kaunas' celebrated interwar modernist architecture, translating rounded corners, rhythmic pilasters, textured plaster, and strong geometric volumes into a contemporary hotel. ● Raw concrete, blackened metal, timber,…
read moreLocated in the heart of Dublin Docklands, next to the 3Arena on the River Liffey, The Mayson is a boutique-style property. One of Dublin’s most modern and architecturally striking hotels it is set in two historic buildings on North Wall Quay (one a public house from 1860 and and one warehouse from 1870).
read moreAs much of a local hangout as it is hotel, Ormond Group’s latest hospitality concept is a design-conscious property housing 99 guest rooms, dynamic social spaces, a self-serve dive bar and cultural programming; making Chow Kit neighbourhood hotspot, MoMo’s, a real hit with the cool cats of Kuala Lumpur.
read morePreview of the Ace Hotel Kyoto, a design and art hotel opening later in 2020.
read moreHotel Wiesler is a hotel in the grand hotel style, but with a decisive hip twist. It is located in the Old Town of Graz, right on the Mur River next to the iconic Kunsthaus Graz.
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