21st Century Hotel

By Graham Vickers

Newly built hotels are being admired throughout the world by travelers and architects, and this strikingly illustrated survey, featuring over 200 full-color photographs, highlights the best new... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789208598
• ISBN13: 9780789208590
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.6" x 11.6"

Customer Reviews

Not your Standard Motel 6 Designs

The thirty seven hotels featured in this book have been selected to illustrate the exciting trend that has come about in recent years to build hotels that stretch beyond the utilitarian hotels of old to reach new heights of style. Most of these new hotels have been designed for a close, harmonious fit to their surroundings. This is particularly striking in some of the hotels built in mountain or desert locations. Other hotels built in cities for instance, do not have unduely striking exteriors but make up for it by the attention paid to the design of the interior areas both public and in the individual rooms. The selected hotels are scattered widely around the world, showing that such design is not restricted to one locale or even to one continent. Seven of the hotels might be considered to be the design experiments, where the basic structure or use of the building stretches design to the limits. These are not your basic Motel 6 designs.