Four Seasons Hotel Suzhou occupies a private island of nine hectares on Jinji Lake, reached by a bridge of its own. It is the hotel in Sun Hung Kai Properties’ ensemble in the Suzhou Industrial Park business district, alongside the Lakeside Four Seasons residences and the Suzhou ICC office and retail complex, more than 325,000 … Read more
Pantai Dalit is a stretch of beach in Tuaran, about 45 minutes by car from Kota Kinabalu’s airport. The resort covers some 400 acres of it: three kilometres of sand, an 18-hole golf course by Ted Parslow between the Tambalang and Mengkabong rivers, much of it laid out on former mangrove swamp, and 64 acres … Read more
Niseko’s Higashiyama ski area began in 1982, when Kokudo, the land company of the Seibu group, and the town of Niseko opened it with a Higashiyama Prince Hotel. Seibu sold the ski hill, the golf and the hotels to a Citigroup arm in 2006, and in 2010 the Malaysian group YTL bought the lot, by … Read more
A Bill Bensley design: a cliff-top resort at Seogwipo, on the quiet south coast of Jeju, connected to Route 7 of the Olle trail.
A 299-room riverside hotel in Bangkok’s Creative District, with interiors by Jean-Michel Gathy and 200 metres of frontage on the Chao Phraya.
A resort of 71 pool pavilions and villas on Emerald Bay, a cove on the south-west coast of Phuket, where Rosewood’s Asaya wellness concept began.
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.
A resort of 100 villas on Ha My Beach, between Hoi An and Da Nang, with architecture drawn from the garden houses of Hue.
Bill Bensley’s 244-room beach resort on Khem Beach, at the southern end of Phu Quoc, designed as the campus of an imaginary French colonial university.
A resort of 70 suites and villas, seven of them over the water, at Labuan Bajo on Flores, the gateway to Komodo National Park.