No. 32 The Bund stands at the northern end of the waterfront, where Suzhou Creek runs into the Huangpu beside the lawns of the former British Consulate. The Peninsula Shanghai opened there in October 2009, with 235 rooms, none smaller than 54 square metres. Its owners described it as the first new building on the … Read more
Signiel Seoul opened on 3 April 2017, the day the Lotte World Tower opened and the Lotte Group turned fifty. It occupies the 76th to the 101st floors of the 555-metre tower: ballroom at the bottom, lobby and lounges on the 79th, restaurants on the 81st, pool and spa on the 85th and 86th, and … 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
Four Seasons Hotel Seoul began as an office project. The plot at the Gwanghwamun junction, where Saemunan-ro meets Sejong-daero below the gate of Gyeongbokgung, had been planned for offices. In 2012 the property fund that Mirae Asset had raised for it switched to a luxury hotel instead. Korean financial reporting at the time noted that … Read more
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