Park Hyatt Jakarta
Indonesia’s first Park Hyatt: 220 large rooms at the top of a tower in leafy Menteng, with interiors drawn from the crafts of the archipelago.
Spa
1 Hotel Tokyo
A planted, timber-lined hotel on floors 38 to 43 of Akasaka Trust Tower, with a Bamford spa and views of the Imperial Palace gardens.
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
RAKxa Integrative Wellness
Bang Krachao is a loop of the Chao Phraya just across the river from Bangkok, protected from development and known as the city’s green lung, although it lies in Samut Prakan province. There, on some 200 rai, the Thai developer M.K. Real Estate built RAKxa with VitalLife, the wellness centre of Bumrungrad International Hospital, which … Read more
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
Mandarin Oriental Qianmen, Beijing
Caochang is a group of about seventeen north–south hutongs in Qianmen East, in Dongcheng District, and its lane pattern has barely changed since the Qianlong map of 1750; the widest lane is five metres across, the narrowest eighty centimetres. Under the Qing more than a hundred guild halls stood here. When the district began repairing … Read more
Palace Hotel Tokyo
The plot at 1-1-1 Marunouchi first held the office of the Imperial Household’s forestry bureau. In 1947, on the orders of the occupation authorities, the building was turned into the Hotel Teito, a state-run hotel for foreign buyers. The state sold it in 1959; a new company, Palace Hotel, was incorporated in February 1960, and … Read more
Janu Tokyo
Mori Building opened talks with the landowners of Azabudai in March 1989, when the site was a narrow, hilly neighbourhood of small houses and wooden buildings. It took nearly 35 years and about 300 landowners: the plan was approved in 2017, construction began in 2019, and Azabudai Hills opened in November 2023, three towers by … Read more
Bvlgari Hotel Tokyo
Bvlgari Hotel Tokyo takes the 40th to 45th floors of Tokyo Midtown Yaesu, the tower Mitsui Fudosan developed with a local redevelopment association beside Tokyo Station. Designed by Takenaka Corporation and Nihon Sekkei and completed in August 2022, it also holds offices, shops, the Bus Terminal Tokyo Yaesu and a public elementary school. Yaesu had … Read more
Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi
Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi opened in October 2002 with 57 rooms, and still has 57. It occupies a few floors of Pacific Century Place, a 31-storey glass tower linked to Tokyo Station by an underground passage, which Pacific Century Group Japan developed and Nikken Sekkei designed. Yabu Pushelberg did the original interiors, billed … Read more