Art Hotels · 6 hotels

Six hotels where the building itself is the reason to look. Some were designed by architects whose names are in the textbooks, some were built for another purpose entirely and kept their shape when the use changed. What they share is that the interior was drawn rather than assembled from a catalogue. Hotels that merely hang pictures in the corridor are not here, and neither is a good building with nothing left of its original fittings.

• The Okura Tokyo01 · Tokyo, Japan — A 1962 lobby rebuilt inside a new tower
• Fontainebleau Miami Beach02 · Miami Beach, Florida, USA — Morris Lapidus and his staircase to nowhere
• Bauhaus Dessau03 · Dessau-Roßlau, Germany — Sleeping in the studio block of a design school
• Hotel Nacional de Cuba04 · Havana, Cuba — A 1930 hotel on the headland above the Malecón
• Hotel New York05 · Rotterdam, Netherlands — The former head office of a transatlantic shipping line
• Palácio Belmonte06 · Lisbon, Portugal — A palace grown around Moorish towers and Roman stone

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