Yangcheng Lake, north-east of Suzhou, is where the Chinese mitten crab, the hairy crab of the autumn markets, takes its name and its reputation; the season runs from September to December, and the lake town has spent the last few years trying to give visitors reasons to come in the other months. Banyan Group opened … Read more
Park Hyatt Suzhou stands on the east shore of Jinji Lake, in Suzhou Industrial Park, looking across the water at W Suzhou. Its client, the Suzhou group Gold Mantis Enterprise, asked Kohn Pedersen Fox for what the architect Josh Chaiken called “a contemporary estate organized around intimate gardens”. KPF’s managing principal, Inkai Mu, described the … Read more
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
Before the Second World War Japan promoted a programme of international tourist hotels, built to receive foreign visitors, and fourteen were completed. A 2022 survey of the type counts the Hotel New Grand in Yokohama and the Unzen Kanko Hotel among them, and calls the group the source of Japanese hotel architecture. One was the … Read more
A 151-key EDITION hotel at 2,090 metres on the slopes of Cangshan, above Erhai Lake in Dali, Yunnan.
The Swiss longevity clinic’s first resort outside Montreux: 29 rooms in seven villas beside a lake in the bamboo hills of Anji, Zhejiang.
A 214-key Four Seasons on the upper floors of the Hangzhou Centre tower beside Wulin Square, overlooking the Grand Canal.
India’s first Raffles: 101 rooms and suites on a 21-acre private island in Udai Sagar lake, outside Udaipur, with a further lakeshore property.
A 94-room lakeside resort on Lake Chuzenji in Nikko National Park, and the first Ritz-Carlton with its own hot spring.
Four Seasons opened its fourth hotel in China in October 2010 on about nine acres of bamboo, lily ponds and lagoons inside the West Lake Scenic Area, beside a UNESCO World Heritage site, the lake itself. The site is that of the Jin Sha Gang cultural village, from which, the company says, the hotel draws … Read more