Gabriella Wong

🏡 Holloway Li reimagined the Puro hotel in Poznań, Poland to integrate natural materials, contemporary furnishings, and locally sourced art, creating "a layering of history". The redesign highlights Poznań's cultural and craft heritage, with the hotel first opening in 2014. The reception features a desk of burnt red glazed tiles on limestone, a rug inspired by Old Market Square, and a brass partition linking to early 20th-century high-speed trains. The lounge includes T4 armchairs from Holloway Li and Fogia's sofas. The guest rooms showcase a green datum with timber beading and gradient shower glass inspired by Polish glassware. Suites have limestone tables and fabric headboards with green-tiled bathrooms. The hotel's curated art collection highlights local artists, many from Poznań University. Holloway Li, founded by Alex Holloway and Na Li in 2018, has also designed spaces with a 1970s flair. Photography by PION Studio.

🏨 In 2024, Dezeen featured hotels including a 12th-century monastery in Italy's Umbria transformed by Archiloop into a boutique hotel, and Tokyo's Hotel Rakuragu by Kooo Architects, built on a mere 83.5 square meters. Casa Yuma by TAAC and Sara Skalli in Mexico showcased chukum for sustainable design. Palazzo Talia in Italy, renovated by Studiolucaguadagnino, combined historic and modern elements. More Architecture's Floating Hotel in China offered nature-immersed stays, while Studio Gang's Populus in Denver, USA, claimed to be the first carbon-positive hotel. Nicemakers refreshed a century-old Swiss chalet, The Brecon, with mid-century modern touches. Manna in Greece, by K-Studio and Monogon, transformed an abandoned sanatorium into a wellness retreat. Policronica crafted Paris' Hotel Elysée Montmartre with locally-sourced eucalyptus wood. Lastly, Rosewood São Paulo in Brazil by Jean Nouvel with Philippe Starck interiors, boasted a 25-story lattice-covered tower with Brazilian materials and integrated nature.