Uncovering Top Guestroom Design Trends
Every picture tells a story and every story tells of a place. Developers are ever-more cognizant of the place in which their hotels stand and how that...
Bathroom Design has Become Paramount to Overall Guest Experience
With increasingly savvy travellers comes heightened expectations. Guests today not only crave an experience that wows them, but expect it, and these expectations are being made manifest...
Designing Public Spaces with Rich Narratives
Lobbies and other hotel public spaces have become more than their generic counterparts of decades past, often with spaces deliberately designed for guests to be able to...
How Designers are Creating Unique Hotel Experiences
As the hotel industry continues to reshape itself to better align with the habits and expectations of digital-native consumers, hotel design continues to evolve — becoming an...
The 2018 Design Awards — Winner Profiles
50-200 Rooms Restaurant/Bar Design
STUDIO MUNGE - AKIRA BACK AT BISHA HOTEL, TORONTO
By Danielle Schalk
Design Highlights: Diners enter the second-floor restaurant via an immersive sculptural staircase with custom...
How to Design Bathrooms That Wow
Hotels have become leaders in the bathroom-design market. Many home owners take inspiration for their own home bathroom decor from photos they’ve seen of hotel bathroom trends....
Designer Showcase: Andaz Ottawa Byward Market, Hilton Garden Inn Calgary, Alt Hotel Ottawa, Alpine...
ANDAZ OTTAWA BYWARD MARKET
When Toronto-based Mason Studio began work on the Andaz Ottawa ByWard Market three years ago, the team drew a lot of inspiration from the city...
Art is Becoming a Focal Point of Hotel Design
Gone are the days of static pastel prints in bulky frames. The nature of hotel art has morphed along with evolving design trends, becoming an integral part...
Why Design-driven Hotels are Attracting Attention
Today’s hotels are more design-driven than ever before, thanks in part to the influence of millennial guests. In the past, the difference between three- and five-star hotels...
Hotel Lobby Design is Key to Making a Good Impression
In the last decade, the hotel lobby has transformed to become a centrepiece of the guest experience. “It was space that was underutilized in the past,” notes...