Designing a hotel or resort is fundamentally different from designing a building that people simply use. A hotel is a place people choose to enter, often because they want to leave their everyday reality behind for a while. They may be searching for rest, beauty, discovery, romance, nature, adventure, silence, luxury or simply the feeling of being somewhere else. This makes hotel and resort design one of the most exciting forms of architectural storytelling. The architect is

We usually think of architecture as the art of creating buildings. We ask whether a building functions well, whether it is beautiful, whether it responds to its site, whether it is sustainable and whether it serves the activities for which it was designed. But what if architecture could begin with a completely different question? What if, before asking what a building should contain, we asked what a human being needs to feel better, stronger, calmer, more connected, more insp