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JSa lines Hotel Carlota courtyard with black concrete blocks
Lattices of dark blockwork wrap around a verdant courtyard and narrow swimming pool at this hotel in Mexico City, overhauled by local firm JSa. More
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10 of the most popular hotel rooms on Dezeen's Pinterest boards
From a bed cocooned in an ice vortex to a colourful suite in America's first gay boutique hotel, this week we're counting down Dezeen's most-pinned hotel room interiors from all around the world. More
Zaha Hadid's Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre nears completion
These new photographs reveal a vast cultural complex by Zaha Hadid Architects, which is reaching its final stages of construction in the Chinese city Nanjing (+ slideshow). More
"Sleeping in a dumpster more comfortable" than Zaha Hadid-designed hotel room says Moby
Musician Moby has hit out at architects "who think about stuff that can be photographed well, but who never actually plan on spending time in the spaces they create". More
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Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge provides luxury getaway in remote African beauty spot
A+Awards: the African armadillo influenced the curved, scale-covered form of this boutique safari lodge in Botswana – one of the winners at this year's Architizer A+Awards. More
Döðlur converts 1940s warehouse into design hotel and hostel in Reykjavík
Icelandic design studio Döðlur has paired 20th-century design pieces with custom-made furniture inside this hotel-cum-hostel on Reykjavík's waterfront. More
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Luxury campsite in Antarctica offers tiny domed pods for sleeping and dining
This remote "glamping" site in Antarctica features a series of igloo-like enclosures fitted with upscale decor like fur-covered chairs and bamboo headboards (+ slideshow). More
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AS Arquitectura turns dilapidated Mexican hacienda into characterful resort
A+Awards: another project lauded at this year's Architizer A+ Awards is this Mexican hacienda, where crumbling buildings were restored and connected with new elements by local studio AS Arquitectura to create a hotel (+ slideshow). More
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Soho House and Michaelis Boyd turn derelict farm into luxury members' hotel
Soho House & Co's in-house design team and London architects Michaelis Boyd have overhauled a run-down farm in Oxfordshire to create Soho Farmhouse – a hotel that combines English countryside style with "upstate New York cabin culture" (+ slideshow). More
La Granja Ibiza is a members-only retreat with a rustic "back-to-basics" design
Designer Armin Fischer has converted an old stone farmhouse in the Ibizan countryside into a rustic members-only retreat offering guests ritualistic activities like communal farming and meditation (+ slideshow). More
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Autonomous Tent creates a remote glamping spot on a California clifftop
An American startup has installed a tent-like structure in California that aims to provide users with a luxury off-grid camping experience (+ slideshow). More
Patricia Urquiola designs colourful Milan outpost for Room Mate Hotels chain
Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has filled new Milan hotel Room Mate Giulia with a colour clash of custom furniture from Italian brand Cassina (+ slideshow). More
Tropical interiors by Yoo Design Studio feature at first Yoo2 hotel in Rio
London-based Yoo Design Studio has created plant-filled interiors for Rio de Janeiro's Yoo2 hotel, which opened last month ahead of the city's Olympic games (+ slideshow). More
Love Land Stop Time photography series shows Brazil's "tantalising" motels
Photo essay: worried that Brazil's love motels would fall foul of Olympic development, Dutch duo Vera van de Sandt and Jur Oster visited the pay-by-the-hour rooms to capture the moods of these intimate spaces (+ slideshow). More
Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville propose Manchester skyscrapers designed by Make
Former footballers Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs have teamed up with architects office Make to design a luxury shopping and hotel complex on the site of a 1950s synagogue in Manchester. More
KLab creates smoothly curved interior for Santorini hotel
There's not a sharp edge in sight within Greek studio KLab's design for the Andronikos Hotel, which sits overlooking the Aegean sea on the volcanic island of Santorini (+ slideshow). More
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HOK envisions flying hotel pods that can access remote holiday destinations
Global architecture firm HOK has created a conceptual proposal for a fleet of drones that would serve as a portable hotel, enabling access to far-flung locales (+ slideshow). More
Null Stern's hotel with no walls allows panoramic views of the Swiss Alps
Guests are invited to sleep under the stars in this open-air hotel, which is located 6,463 feet above sea level in the mountains of Graubünden (+ slideshow). More
"Above all, design has to be comfortable" says Soho House founder Nick Jones
Over the past 20 years, former caterer Nick Jones has built Soho House into a global empire of private members clubs, restaurants, spas and now Soho Home, an online homewares store. He sat down with Dezeen to discuss his approach to design (+ slideshow). More
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Zaha Hadid Architects to build Qatari hotel based on a desert flower
Zaha Hadid Architects has announced plans to build a 38-storey, fluid-form hotel as part of a new coastal city in Qatar. More