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A new hotel is always a new place to go when travelling. But a new hotel with an incredible good looking design can actually become a place to travel to. Each new designed hotels that we will show you below are 5 perfect examples of this.
Each new hotel opened in the last few months and with time can easily become leading hotels of its country.
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What about starting this list with not a new hotel, but actually with a new motel?
Alamo Motel, Los Alamos, USA
With their growing constellation of updated roadside motels, husband and wife team, Kenny Osehan and Chris Sewell of hospitality group Shelter Social Club, are making the case that even when the journey exceeds the destination, there are still plenty of reasons to make pit stops along the way. Their noted project, Ojai Rancho Inn, at the foot of the Southern Californian Topatopa Mountains, quickly became a gathering spot for stylish wanderers and local artisans. Similarly infused with the designs of talented friends, their latest venture, Alamo Motel, is no different: the makeover of a 1940s motel located in Los Alamos – a small Californian town along Highway 101 with fewer than 2,000 residents – Osehan explains that the property is inspired by the ‘soft and dramatic desert landscape and the western agricultural setting’.
Mindful of that, details include plywood furniture, brass sconces by lighting studio Atelier de Troupe and bed throws by textile artist Marissa Macias, whom Osehan and Sewell met when she stayed at another Shelter Social Club property with her mother.
Anselmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Located on Plaza Dorrego, one of Buenos Aires’ most emblematic squares, Anselmo Hotel is a chic addition to the vibrant San Telmo neighbourhood. Designed by architect Alberto Smud with décor at the hands of designer Gabriela Faena, the clean aesthetic is adorned with pieces by contemporary artist Manuel Ameztoy throughout. Spread over three levels, each of the 50 guest rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows with views of the internal courtyard, while brushed concrete ceilings and walls, contrast with the parquet floors and preserved wooden balcony doors, in keeping with the colonial architecture of the area. On the ground floor, two restaurants flank the open-air courtyard: the white-themed bistro –which serves contemporary local fare and revamped classics – is decked out in ceramic tiles and Bertoia and Eames DSW side chairs and the Lounge takes over the evening service with a hand-crafted chef’s table for private dining
Munch on citrus infused flan with dulce de leche, before visiting the hotel gallery, which showcases the work of promising Argentine artists.
Ink Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam-based architects Concrete, have stitched together three early 20th century canal houses – one of which is the former HQ of De Tijd newspaper – into a lovely 149-room hotel. A few blocks from the bustling Dam Square, Ink faces the city’s picturesque canals, its entrance barely noticeable in the fluid way in which Concrete has morphed inside and outside spaces with greenery, rough hewn stones, glass walls, and a light-washed atrium that mimics one of the Amsterdam’s famous open squares. Perhaps a little obviously, the décor takes its cues from the building’s printing past – hence, the all day Pressroom bar and restaurant and quirky furnishings of vintage typewriters and glass inkbottles.
Still, there are plenty of enjoyable distractions, not least artist Jan Rothuizen’s intricate hand-drawn maps of Amsterdam on bedroom walls, and the open bathrooms lined in white marble and brass, and styled like a bar.
Staying in the borough of Queens has long been considered a no-go for tourists visiting New York. The launch of Boro in Long Island City this month, however, is set to change all that. Located within easy distance of MoMA PS1, the Noguchi Museum and M. Well Steakhouse, the hotel brings much-needed reprieve to an area that has mostly been dominated by dreary hotel chains. From its inviting lobby, which features a library of Strand Bookstore titles and periodicals, to the café bar that doles out complimentary breakfasts to guests, Boro owes its stylish interiors to the design firm Grzywinski + Pons, who built upon the building’s austere concrete skeleton with painted hardwood panelling, leather furniture and flashes of colour to add warmth to the space.
Plumen lighting fixtures; Jasper Morrison cork stools for Vitra and custom-designed furniture fill each of the 108 rooms, which – sprawling by NYC standards – come armed with panoramic views of Manhattan and Queens. Finished off with a soon-to-open restaurant, outdoor terrace and a rooftop bar, Boro sits on top of a new wave of hip offerings that are collectively putting Queens on the discerning traveller’s map.
Clubhouse Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
With the Olympics just a year away, Rio de Janeiro continues to be busy sprucing up for the two-week sports carnival. The latest addition to the city’s haul of rooms is the five-bedroom Clubhouse Rio. The sophomore project of Oasis Collections following the blow-out success of The Clubhouse in Buenos Aires, the members’ only club is set in a mid-century pile in Rua Saint Roman between Ipanema and the Cantagalo favela. The club’s design credentials are impeccable, with the French architect and designer Jean-Luc Boucharenc teaming up with British interior designer Lizzie Ward – the latter best known for her work with Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs and Mario Testino – to create a lush Carioca-inspired bolt-hole.
The vibe takes its cue from the building’s bones – light sunny colours, bold patterns and Art Deco flourishes mixing it up with soft pastel bed throws, and grey and chrome accents. It’s also no surprise that the best views in the house are from the terrace overlooking the surrounding hills and the Atlantic Ocean. For now at least, members are drawn from the arts, media and design worlds, though the biggest draw to the Clubhouse Rio might well be the reciprocal club rights to a clutch of cloistered private havens including Hong Kong’s Kee, London’s The Hospital Club and Madrid’s Club Matador.
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