Four Seasons Hotel Shenzhen is on Fuhua Third Road in Futian, across from the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center and a short walk from the Civic Center, which holds the municipal hall and museum. The Concert Hall and Library, both by Arata Isozaki, are close by, and the Huanggang and Futian crossings to Hong Kong … Read more
In Chinese, The Ritz-Carlton, Shenzhen is 深圳星河丽思卡尔顿酒店, the Shenzhen Galaxy Ritz-Carlton. Galaxy is Shenzhen Galaxy Industrial Company, with which Ritz-Carlton developed the hotel as part of the Galaxy Ritz-Carlton Hotel & Office Complex; the English name leaves it out. Ritz-Carlton opened it in March 2009 in the Futian business district, facing the Shenzhen Convention and … Read more
Fairmont’s first hotel in Thailand, a 474-room property in Bangkok’s Sukhumvit district opened in August 2026.
The 1980 harbourfront hotel in Kowloon, redesigned by Chi Wing Lo and officially reopened under its original name in November 2023 with 497 rooms.
The pit is a former stone quarry on Tianma Mountain, in the Sheshan resort area of Songjiang in south-western Shanghai. Euronews reported that it was worked during the Second World War and closed in 2000 under new environmental rules. The pit it left is usually given as 88 metres deep, with water at the bottom. … Read more
Indonesia’s first Park Hyatt: 220 large rooms at the top of a tower in leafy Menteng, with interiors drawn from the crafts of the archipelago.
Niccolo Chengdu fills Tower 3 of Chengdu IFS, the mixed-use quarter of some 760,000 square metres that the Hong Kong group Wharf built at the junction of Hongxing Road and Dacisi Road, with towers by Kohn Pedersen Fox. Wharf pitched the project in 2011 as “an oasis within Chengdu”, modelled on its Wheelock Square in … Read more
The oldest part of Bvlgari Hotel Shanghai stands on North Suzhou Road, at the north end of the Henan Road Bridge. It was built for the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, founded in February 1912, which drafted China’s first business law and opened the country’s first commercial arbitration office. The site had been the residence … Read more
In 1932 the colonial government built a Buddhist temple on the lower slope of Namsan, in Jangchung-dong, in memory of Itō Hirobumi, and gave it as its entrance Heunghwamun, a gate taken from the palace of Gyeonghuigung. Bakmunsa was pulled down after liberation, and in 1967 the government put up a building of its own … Read more