Form Hotel in Dubai invites guests to “curate their own experience”
Form Hotel founder Tarek Daouk explains how the new boutique hotel in Dubai allows guests to customise their stay, in this movie Dezeen filmed for AHEAD. Read more
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Form Hotel in Dubai invites guests to “curate their own experience”
Form Hotel founder Tarek Daouk explains how the new boutique hotel in Dubai allows guests to customise their stay, in this movie Dezeen filmed for AHEAD. Form Hotel Dubai, which opened last year, is a new 136-room, four-star hotel located in the United Arab Emirates city’s Al Jadaf neighbourhood. The hotel won the Urban Hotel
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Soviet publishing house in Tbilisi transformed into Stamba Hotel
Hotelier Valieri Chekheria explains how his team transformed the headquarters of a Soviet printing press in Tbilisi into the Stamba Hotel in this movie Dezeen produced for the AHEAD hospitality awards. Stamba opened in May in Tbilisi’s emerging Vera neighbourhood. The hotel was designed by an in-house team at Adjara Group, the developer behind the
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Table Top Apartments designed to “alleviate social isolation” in New York
Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video investigates a modular building system based on the shapes of dining tables, designed to help tackle loneliness in cities. Table Top Apartments, designed by Chicago-based architecture studio Kwong Von Glinow, is a conceptual system for constructing residential buildings on footprints as small as eight by 30 metres – the
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Kwong von Glinow designs Hong Kong high-rises containing multi-storey homes
Apartments are made up of rooms stacked on top of one another in this extreme vertical housing proposal by Chicago studio Kwong von Glinow, which is the latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series. Titled Tower within a Tower, the scheme tries to solve an issue that is typical in traditional “pancake stacks” of
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“Hotel experiences are becoming more sensory” say AHEAD Europe awards judges
The best new hotels are stimulating all of their guests’ senses, say AHEAD Europe jury members in this movie Dezeen produced for the awards programme. The AHEAD Europe awards, which took place in London on Monday, celebrate the best in hotel and resort design across the continent. Hans Meyer, AHEAD jury member and founder of hotel brand
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Hotel Sanders by Lind + Almond revives “old-world, glamorous side of travel”
Interior designer Pernille Lind and architect Richy Almond describe their design for Hotel Sanders in Copenhagen, which has been named best new hotel in Europe, in this movie Dezeen produced for the AHEAD awards. Hotel Sanders, which opened last November in Copenhagen’s historic centre, won the Hotel of the Year prize at the AHEAD Europe awards in London on Monday. It
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Making “the healthy choice the default choice” will encourage wellbeing in the workplace
Companies can gain a competitive advantage by designing workplaces that make wellbeing a default choice, argue the authors of The Healthy Workplace Nudge book in a talk Dezeen hosted with Haworth in Chicago. Architects and interior designers should be creating workplaces that nudge people into having healthy behaviour, says Dr Michael O’Neill, an expert on the
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Homes for Hope tackles homelessness with modular temporary housing
Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video investigates a prefabricated homeless housing concept for Los Angeles that aims to bridge the gap between life on the streets and permanent accommodation. Homes for Hope, which Los Angeles studio Madworkshop developed in collaboration with the USC School of Architecture’s Homeless Studio, is a modular system of prefabricated units that
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Watch our discussion on smart design and wellbeing live from Barcelona
Dezeen speaks to designers including Irina and Olga Sundukovy and Natali Canas del Pozo about the future of wellbeing in this talk hosted by ceramics brand Villeroy & Boch. Watch it live from Barcelona at 7:30pm Spanish time. The stream is now live. You can watch it here or on Dezeen’s Facebook page. In the talk, Dezeen’s
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