Some of our favourite hotels on the Dezeen Awards 2020 Longlist
Dezeen, the world’s most popular and influential architecture and design website, has revealed the longlist for their annual Dezeen Awards, the benchmark for international design excellence. Amongst the inspiring selection of architecture, interiors and design projects across the world on the 2020 longlist are some fascinating hotels - here are five of our favourites.
Kasiiya Papagayo
French studio AW² has created a boutique hotel in Costa Rica, carefully integrated into the hillside so as to not disturb the surrounding landscape. Conservation of the tropical forest was paramount to the project, with the intention not just to have minimal impact on the environment, but zero. The seven tented suites are built on timber platforms from natural materials and allow the guest to appreciate the calm seclusion of Costa Rica’s spectacular natural world. The hotel is set to re-open on 1st December 2020.
Claus Brechenmacher and Reiner Bauman
K-Studio has transformed former wine storage concrete tanks from the 1920s into an experimental hotel that is built directly on the coastline, in the western Peloponnese. The tanks form luxurious guest rooms, with concrete, steel, timber and glass adding understated new elements to the existing buildings. In Dezeen’s words, “the project showcases the strong history and raw beauty of the existing buildings and compliments their brutality with elegant interventions”. We love the sound of this hotel - it’s been pegged as a must-stay for architecture buffs by the Telegraph too.
Claesson Koivsto Rune
Claesson Koivisto Rune has transformed a 1920s bank building into K5 Tokyo, a boutique hotel in Nihonbashi-Kabutocho, opposite the Tokyo Stock Exchange. K5 is part of a micro complex within a four-storey concrete building, with 20 generously-sized guest rooms that were created under the theme of “existing with nature in the city”. Within the building you’ll also find Switch coffee stand, caveman restaurant, a wine bar, beer hall by Brooklyn Brewery and library-cum-bar, Ao. Whilst being small in scale, the hotel and micro-complex acts as a creative hub attracting people from around the world.
Ståle Eriksen
Vòra is a handcrafted boutique hotel of three private villas, carved into the caves and cliffs, created by K-Studio in a site owner Yannis Bellonias searched for for years. Perched on the edge of the caldera in Santorini, Vòra offers monumental views of the volcano and the Aegean sea from the private plunge pool and terrace of each villa. Inspired by the volcanic environment and the traditional cave dwellings of the area, the property is a celebration of minimalistic, contemporary Cycladic design, and local building tradition and vernacular.
Jose Hevia
Casa Palerm is a beautiful new holiday home, created by OHLAB as an extension of a rural hotel in Lloret de Vistalegre, in the rural centre of Mallorca. The house appears to perfectly frame the surrounding countryside and drama of the Tramontana mountain range, particularly from the living area, a central space within the building’s structure, which can be entirely opened yet is protected from the sun by a wattle pergola that casts dappled light across the space.
See all award categories and longlisted projects at www.dezeen.com/awards - the shortlist will be announced in September 2020. Good luck to all those longlisted!