Four Seasons Hong Kong Completes Room Redesign
All 399 rooms and suites at the IFC hotel have been reworked by Remedios Studio, with AB Concept designing a new bar and lobby café.
Design & Architecture
Capella Hanoi Opens Near the Opera House
Bill Bensley’s opera-themed Capella Hanoi brings 47 rooms and suites, a Northern Vietnamese restaurant and an underground spa to the capital’s Old Quarter.
Salisterra Replaces Café Gray Deluxe at The Upper House
Jun Tanaka of The Ninth London leads the Mediterranean menu on level 49, in rooms redesigned by André Fu in terracotta, burgundy and mineral blue.
The Upper House Unveils the André Fu Suite
The designer who created the Swire Hotels property returns to convert a Level 48 penthouse into a residence with its own dining room and spa.
The Hari Hong Kong Opens in Wan Chai
The Harilela family’s second Hari hotel, after London, arrives on Hong Kong Island with 210 rooms designed by Tara Bernerd & Partners.
Azumi Setoda Revives a 140-Year-Old Setouchi Estate
Adrian Zecha’s new ryokan concept takes over a salt merchant family’s compound on Ikuchijima, restored by sukiya specialist Shiro Miura.
The Tokyo Edition, Toranomon Opens With Kengo Kuma
Ian Schrager’s brand makes its Japan debut on the top floors of Tokyo World Gate, with 206 rooms and a planted sky garden terrace.
The Tokyo Toilet: Ando, Ban and Maki Redesign Shibuya’s Restrooms
Seventeen public toilets across Shibuya are being rebuilt by architects including four Pritzker laureates, with Shigeru Ban’s colour-glass pavilions among the first to open.
InterContinental Chongqing Raffles City Opens
IHG’s new Chongqing flagship fills floors 44 to 65 of Moshe Safdie’s Raffles City towers above the meeting of the Yangtze and Jialing.
Ace Hotel Kyoto Opens in Kengo Kuma’s Shin-Puh-Kan
Ace’s first Japanese hotel pairs a 1926 red-brick telephone exchange with a new timber-gridded wing, interiors by Commune Design and a Samiro Yunoki identity.