W Macau – Studio City
A 557-room W hotel in Melco’s Studio City resort on the Cotai Strip, with a 40th-floor Cantonese restaurant and a recording studio.
Design
Patina Maldives, Fari Islands
A 110-key resort in North Malé Atoll designed by Marcio Kogan of Studio MK27, with a James Turrell Skyspace, 45 minutes by boat from Malé airport.
Raffles Singapore
Singapore’s 1887 landmark on Beach Road: 115 suites around palm courtyards, the Long Bar and the Tiffin Room, restored between 2017 and 2019.
Rosewood Phnom Penh
A 175-room hotel on the top 14 floors of Vattanac Capital, the tallest tower in Phnom Penh, with a sky bar on a cantilevered terrace.
Four Seasons Hotel Osaka
A 175-room hotel on the upper floors of the One Dojima tower in central Osaka, with a floor of 21 tatami rooms run as a contemporary ryokan.
Azumi Setoda
A ryokan in a 140-year-old salt merchant’s compound on Ikuchijima, in the Seto Inland Sea, and the first property of Adrian Zecha’s Azumi brand.
Banyan Tree Higashiyama Kyoto
A 52-room hotel by Kengo Kuma on a wooded hillside in Kyoto’s Higashiyama district, with a natural hot spring and an open-air Noh stage.
Aman Kyoto
A 26-room Aman resort set in a 32-hectare forest estate in the north of Kyoto, within walking distance of Kinkaku-ji.
Dusit Thani Bangkok
Dusit Thani means “city of heaven”, and it was the name King Vajiravudh gave to the miniature city he built to rehearse democracy. Khunying Chanut Piyaoui took it for the hotel she opened in February 1970 on the corner of Rama IV and Silom roads, across from Lumpini Park and the king’s statue at its … Read more
Hoshinoya Bali
Thirty villas along canal-like pools above the Pakerisan River, east of Ubud, run with Japanese order and calm.