Six Senses Krabey Island
Forty pool villas in the forest of a private island in the Gulf of Thailand, off Cambodia’s Ream National Park.
Private Pool
Rosewood Luang Prabang
Bill Bensley’s 23-key resort beside a waterfall in a forest valley, ten minutes from the old town of Luang Prabang, with six tented villas on the hilltop.
Capella Taipei
André Fu’s modern mansion on Dunhua North Road: 86 rooms and suites, six with private plunge pools, and the first Capella in Taiwan.
Rosewood Miyakojima
Rosewood’s first hotel in Japan: 55 villas and houses by Studio Piet Boon on a peninsula of Miyako Island, in Okinawa prefecture.
Aman Nai Lert Bangkok
Nai Lert, born in 1872 and later ennobled as Phraya Bhakdinorasreth, opened the Hotel De La Paix in 1907, which his family’s company calls the first hotel founded by a Thai entrepreneur, and went on to run the first passenger boats on Khlong Saen Saep in 1908, Bangkok’s first buses in 1909 and Thailand’s first … Read more
Capella Ubud, Bali
Capella Ubud began as a plan for a conventional hotel. Its site, about nine acres of rainforest and rice paddies in Keliki village, in Tegallalang, was meant to carry a hundred-room hotel, by Bill Bensley’s account, until he “convinced the owner to change tack” to a project of minimal impact. Bensley, who designed both the … Read more
Buahan, a Banyan Tree Escape
Sixteen open-sided villas without walls or doors in the jungle of the upper Ayung valley, north of Ubud. Adults only.
andBeyond Punakha River Lodge
Six tented suites and two villas on the Mo Chhu river, in the warm rice-growing valley of Punakha.
Yangshuo Sugar House
In 2006 the Hong Kong investor Danny T.T. Chan and his mainland partner Yang Xiaodong bought an abandoned sugar mill of the 1960s on the north bank of the Li River, a few minutes’ drive from Yangshuo, meaning to make it a heritage resort with art and artists in residence. Vector Architects, the Beijing practice … 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