Amanjiwo was designed as an answer to a single building. Ed Tuttle, the American architect behind many of Aman’s early resorts, set it on the slope of the Menoreh Hills facing Borobudur across the Kedu Plain, and gave its centre the shape of the temple’s summit: a domed rotunda of the pale local limestone called … Read more
Xi’an, the capital of thirteen dynasties, grew on a north–south grid. In the High-Tech Zone in the south of the city, where the developer Zhongda built its mixed-use THE CITY on Keji 2nd Road, a newer grid runs slightly off that axis. WATG, the architects, placed the hotel where the two meet: the hotel tower … Read more
The hotel and its school began together. In 2004 Sokoun Chanpreda, a Cambodian businessman who had come home from abroad to invest in his country, started the Shinta Mani School of Hospitality in Siem Reap, giving free training to young Cambodians from poor families; according to the hotel, the classroom was converted staff housing. Bill … Read more
Bill Bensley designed the Hotel de la Paix in 2002, on Sivutha Boulevard in the middle of Siem Reap, and it became one of the best-regarded hotels in Cambodia. Ten years later it closed for a fourteen-month renovation, again by Bensley, and in August 2013 it reopened as Park Hyatt Siem Reap, Hyatt’s first hotel … Read more
King Norodom Sihanouk wanted a place near Angkor where he could lodge his family and visiting dignitaries, and in 1962 the French architect Laurent Mondet began the Villa Princière for him on the road from Siem Reap to the temples. Completed in 1963, it was a low, modern building around a curving pool and lawn, … Read more
Andaz Shenzhen Bay belongs to China Resources Land’s own piece of the city: a mixed-use development of 860,000 square metres on Shenzhen Bay that also holds the China Resources Headquarters, the Shenzhen Bay MixC mall and the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center. CR Land owns the hotel and Hyatt runs it, a partnership that began with … Read more
Next to the hotel stands the Ping An Finance Centre, 599 metres and 118 floors, the tallest building in Shenzhen. Park Hyatt is in its smaller companion, the 48-storey South Tower, which is joined to it, and the hotel opened at the top of it in August 2019, with the insurer Ping An as its … Read more
In Chinese, The Ritz-Carlton, Shenzhen is 深圳星河丽思卡尔顿酒店, the Shenzhen Galaxy Ritz-Carlton. Galaxy is Shenzhen Galaxy Industrial Company, with which Ritz-Carlton developed the hotel as part of the Galaxy Ritz-Carlton Hotel & Office Complex; the English name leaves it out. Ritz-Carlton opened it in March 2009 in the Futian business district, facing the Shenzhen Convention and … 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 125-key resort of white walls, grey roofs and still water on the edge of the canal town of Wuzhen, in northern Zhejiang.