The PuXuan Hotel and Spa
A 116-room hotel inside Ole Scheeren’s Guardian Art Center, within walking distance of the Forbidden City.
Design
Songtsam Linka Kunming
Songtsam’s city retreat above Dianchi Lake: 53 rooms and the starting point for the group’s journeys through Yunnan and Tibet.
The Peninsula Tokyo
The triangular plot where Hibiya-dori meets Harumi-dori was once part of an Edo-period inlet, and after the war the occupation authorities used it as a car park. In 1948 the film studio Nikkatsu acquired it, and in 1952 it opened the Nikkatsu International Building, whose sixth to ninth floors held a hotel advertised as the … Read more
The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo
The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo occupies the top nine floors of Midtown Tower, beginning on the 45th. Below it lies Tokyo Midtown, which the Mitsui Fudosan group built on 6.9 hectares that had been the headquarters of the Defense Agency. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, as master architect, gathered the floor area into one quadrant of the site … Read more
The Okura Tokyo
When Hotel Okura closed its main building in August 2015, most of the protest was about one room. The lobby Yoshiro Taniguchi and Hideo Kosaka had designed for the 1962 opening had become a touchstone of Japanese modernism: an online petition asked for the building to be saved, Bottega Veneta’s creative director Tomas Maier ran … Read more
Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi
Otemachi One is a joint development by Mitsui & Co. and Mitsui Fudosan on a site that had held three office buildings, among them Mitsui & Co.’s former headquarters. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the design architect, made each of its two towers answer its surroundings. The shorter one, Mitsui & Co.’s new headquarters, draws on … Read more
The Upper House
The Upper House occupies floors 38 to 49 of a tower above Pacific Place, Swire Properties’ complex of offices, hotels and shops in Admiralty. It has 117 rooms and opened in October 2009. Three other hotels share the same development, the JW Marriott in the same tower and the Conrad and Island Shangri-La across the … Read more
Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong
Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong belongs to the International Finance Centre, the development built over Hong Kong Station, the Central terminus of the Airport Railway. Plans for its second phase in 2001 showed a Four Seasons hotel and a Four Seasons Suites tower beside the 88-storey Two IFC, for a consortium that included MTR Corporation, … Read more
Niccolo Chengdu
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
Aman Tokyo
Aman made its name with resorts set apart from everything around them. In Tokyo it opened, in December 2014, at the top of Otemachi Tower, an office building in the business district between Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace. The idea of retreat had to be built vertically. The hotel holds two MICHELIN Keys. The … Read more