Jinakachi anchors a singular hotel room along the Kuniga Coast in Shimane, Japan, reworked by Amane Architects within the long-standing Kuga-so property. The project turns a south-east corner room into a deliberate viewpoint over the Shimamae Inland Sea, giving guests an immediate encounter with wind, water, and the grazing grasslands that define this island setting. Architecture here acts as a lens rather than a spectacle.
Villa Zai stands on a cliff in Phuket, Thailand, oriented wide to the Andaman Sea and shaped by IDIN Architects as a rarefied nine-room hotel. Conceived for full buyout stays, it serves private groups and wedding parties who want guest rooms, ceremony settings, and shared amenities held together in one focused address. Every move responds to those social rhythms, from the signature suite to the sky-tuned interiors that track the day’s changing light.
Hotel KHIDI sits in Kiketi, Georgia, a compact hotel by Elene Skhvitaridze that looks into a canopy of oaks. Dark metal volumes step along the hillside while timber-lined rooms bring a quiet, natural warmth to the interior. Guests move across bridges and decks to reach suites with broad windows and inset terraces, where the palette stays simple and calm.
Mode Eco Mood Hotel revives a historic property in Rimini, Italy, with a sustainability-first concept led by Rizoma Architetture. The hospitality project gathers multiple studios under one roof to test circular materials, responsible sourcing, and energy-savvy systems in real rooms guests actually use. It’s a hotel, yes, but also a living lab where reuse, local craft, and measured technology guide the experience.
Ying’nFlo lands in Hong Kong as a lifestyle hotel by Linehouse, pitched to modern travelers who value ease and character over stiffness. The project reshapes the ground floor into a series of house-like rooms and pushes color and texture into a lush terrace and pared-back suites. Warm materials and a youthful edge give the communal areas their energy, while the guest rooms keep comfort and function front and center.
Moldova’s Hobbit Houses settles into a lakeside wake park near Pănăseşti, Moldova, where three earth-sheltered cabins read as shaped mounds in the grass. Designed by LH47 ARCH, the hotel turns unused shoreline into a quiet retreat that faces the water and hides its mass in the land. Inside, local craft and timber work carry the idea forward without fuss.
Mandarin Oriental Qianmen Beijing sits within Caochang Hutong near Qianmen Street in Beijing, China, reengaging a living alleyway culture through careful restoration. Designed by CCD / Cheng Chung Design (HK), the hotel works within the historic fabric rather than above it, preserving courtyards, materials, and trees. The result reads as hospitality stitched into a neighborhood, not a world apart.
Villa Baltica is a complex of seven all-season vacation cottages designed by Z3Z Architekci, located in Niechorze, Poland. The 35-square-metre (377-square-foot) residences are shaped like a barn and were designed to sit privately in a dense property on the Western Pomerania region, which has views of the Baltic Sea. The wooden cottages accommodate six people and each have a dedicated garden space.
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