At the other there is the New Era Hotel, a blank, green, glass tower block.
The pitch is archetypal: the Goretorium is actually "the Delmont, " a '60s-era hotel whose owners make sure the guests enter -- and never leave.
Obama and Hu greeted the CEOs in a room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (the mammoth building next to the White House that looks like a Victorian-era hotel) and made a few remarks before leaving for their presser.
One sight is striking -- a beautiful structure that could have passed as a hotel in a different era.
The urban landscape is, of course, much changed from the era the hotel so tenderly evokes, and ever transformed by the jolting absence of the Twin Towers.
With his partner, Russian-born billionaire Leonard Blavatnik, he has bought up four city blocks along South Beach's Collins Avenue, including the '40s-era Saxony Hotel, and enlisted a roster of A-list talent to construct another Faena district.
Getting Bangkok under my belt would have given me the opportunity to take a shore excursion to Ayutthaya, the ancient Thai capital and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, when we were in Bangkok, and the chance to knock Hanoi (and the Colonial-era Metropole Hotel) off my bucket list.
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The trendy Washington School House, a 12-room hotel in a 1880s-era school building in Park City, Utah, has had several buyouts since opening in December 2011.
Sleep in Colombo's colonial era Park Street Hotel, bed down at the immaculately restored Illuketia estate near Galle, or, if urges for the beach are simply too strong to ignore, opt for an extended stay at the Dutch colonial Beach House bungalow near Tangalle, where, amid antiques and attentive staff and a personal stretch of private beach, you can experience history and hedonism in equal, enchanting measure.
Just like the town itself, the old Railway Hotel rarely catches the eye in an era when glitz counts.
Hotel spokeswoman Deneen Perrin said Hayes was also the head of the GTR during a period of great railway expansion, making items from that era very valuable to the hotel.
Pssst... you might want to nab a shot glass or a matchbook from the 1950s-era, Moroccan-themed Sahara Hotel and Casino.
Whether they can pull it off and turn the hotel into a Deco moneymaker for a new era will have a lot of influence on how much the city government and others invest in renovations of other Deco structures.
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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.
Once you have finished exploring the forts and palaces, take some time to relax at the exquisite Kaya Kalp, a 99, 000sqft spa located in the ITC Mughal hotel, which takes guests on a sensorial journey back to an era of excess and conquest.
Architect Sir Norman Foster elegantly combined a refurbished British-era military structure surrounded by manicured green lawns with curved, metal-clad modern hotel buildings and villas that tumble down a hillside to the South China Sea.
Among the newer additions: The W Minneapolis-The Foshay, a 1920s-era skyscraper that was converted in time to open this month as a 230-room hotel.
The Grand Hotel is a good deal, with lots of retro character - note the plaques labelling everything in the 1960s-era lobby.
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