Down at Ipanema beach, the hip set can be found at the five-star Philippe Stark-designed Hotel Fasano, opened in 2007.
Raas , a 39-room hotel built around a restored 300-year-old rose sandstone mansion with new buildings that seamlessly re-create the look of the original, is a meticulously designed contemporary hotel.
The prestigious 3, 690-room Caesars Palace is in the process of transforming one of its existing hotel towers into the The Nobu Hotel, a Japanese-themed, 81-room boutique hotel designed by architect David Rockwell.
The hotel was designed by Pei Cobb Freed and Partners, which initially created it as an office building.
The Yangtze Hotel was designed by Li Fan, who studied architecture in Europe.
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The sleek glass box is the first hotel fully designed by the hip Japanese firm Super Potato (who in addition to having a great name, designed the gorgeous spa at the Grand Hyatt in Tokyo, among other stellar spaces).
Only a kilometre away from the hotel, the sinuous metal banisters of the Gudbrandsjuvet viewing platform were designed by the same architect as the hotel, Jensen and Skodvin.
Hotel Fasano, designed by Philippe Starck, is Rio's top destination for celebutantes.
This will include private villas, a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course, a Nikki Beach hotel and a Chedi property in Porto Heli itself.
The Belgrade Art Hotel is a swanky Italian-designed place to stay on Knez Mihailova.
And now that the hotel is adding an art museum, designed by American artist James Turrell, more travelers will likely make the trek.
Boutique properties like the Soho House were the first to get in on the action, and other hotels followed suit, from Hotel Frasano's Phillipe Starck-designed rooftop pool in Rio de Janeiro to the Joule in Dallas, where part of the pool hangs off the building.
While the hotel interiors, library and rooms were designed by grand master Jacques Garcia to have Parisian flair (many have a claw foot tub in the room, faux garret-style), it is the restaurant that is getting a lot of early buzz, with rave reviews already coming from the New York Times and top food blogs.
These original classes proved so popular that in 2008 she closed the hotel and moved into a new purpose-designed cooking school in Sultanahmet, where she now offers hands-on half-day classes focussing on traditional Anatolian dishes.
Steven Burt, G24's chief financial officer, talks of light-bulb-powered TV remote controls, smoke detectors and computer keyboards. (A non-removable internal battery would store charge for use when the lights are off.) The company already offers prototypes of bags and jackets with photosensitive panels woven in, designed to charge digital cameras and mobile phones, and a hotel in Las Vegas is using G24's products to run its electric window-blinds.
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Inside, a spiral staircase swoops from a playfully designed stone floor in the lobby to the bar level of the hotel.
The building, designed by the Rockwell Group, uses a flowing design throughout the hotel -- literally, through the lights moving up and down its walls, and symbolically, as people spill out onto the street corners from its ground floor nightclub.
The fact that the spa was designed by Peter Capone, who also spearheaded the construction of the new hotel but had no previous spa experience, is both a blessing and a curse.
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So in addition to the simplicity of generous balconies and a wider-than-usual stretch of gardens (designed by Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles), Faena would like the new hotel to evoke the resorts of the French Riviera's golden era.
Just the way that certain places are designed to make you feel a certain way (think: a really great boutique hotel), so too is the Uncovet site.
This Georgian-style home, which is surrounded by 21 acres of land on the shores of Lake Michigan, was designed by renowned architect Benjamin Marshall , best known for his work on the Drake Hotel.
New York City-based fashion label Public School, for example, designed the staff's uniforms, and Miami's Museum of Contemporary Art worked with the hotel and artist Jorge Pantoja to craft a five-piece collection of paintings displayed in the lobby.
In late 2011, design-forward Radisson Blu, with several popular hotels in Europe, opened its first US property, the 334-room Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel on the first 18 floors of the famously wavy 86-story Aqua Building, designed by acclaimed architect Jean Gang.
It was designed by Singaporean firm Chan Sau Yan Associates, which helmed the interior design of the four-star hotel.
She was presented with her Brit trophy - designed by Sir Peter Blake - by Jessie J at Thursday's nominations launch event at London's Savoy Hotel.
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