Courtesy Brøchner Hotels
The concrete building’s heritage-protected exterior facade has a grid of horizontal metal blades while inside cast concrete is left exposed along with concrete floors and original terrazzo stairs.
Source: Copenhagen transformer station is reborn as Hotel Herman K
In contrast to classical recycling, where new raw materials are obtained by shredding, the hotel focuses on upgrading and the deliberate misuse of used materials. Used objects are thus converted into completely new products.
Source: Would you overnight in a hotel made of waste materials? — BEAM Travel
A rendering of the planned exterior of the Detroit Foundation Hotel inside Detroit’s former Fire Department headquarters. (Vista (Beijing) Digital Technology Co., Ltd. )
“So many places are the same that people crave difference,” Poris says. “New York is like a mall now with the same stores you find at Somerset Collection [in Troy, Mich.], Milan or Hong Kong.”
Photography by Matthew Williams.
Owner and designer Method Hospitality was careful to preserve much of the landmark building’s industrial character while at the same time embracing the Fishtown’s new creative vibe.
Source: A former whiskey bottling factory becomes Philadelphia’s latest hip hotel and bar.
(Image: John Lindsay; converted pigsty in North Yorkshire, England)
According to the Landmark Trust, which restored the now converted pigsty overlooking Robin Hood’s Bay, in North Yorkshire, to its former glory: “Once really a sty, Squire Barry of Fyling Hall is said to have been inspired by the classical architecture he had seen in the Mediterranean during his travels in the 1880s when building this home for his pigs.”
Source: Spend a Luxury Night in a Converted Pigsty (North Yorkshire) – Urban Ghosts Media
The Big Green Bus was originally part of the west midlands metro transit system and purchased by its new owner (and renovator) Adam Collier-Woods for approximately $7,500 at auction on eBay.
via Mobile Hotel: Converted Double-Decker Bus B&B Still Drives | Urbanist.
Eero Saarinen‘s famous JFK terminal is a masterpiece of contemporary architecture, but as a flight terminal, the building has fallen a bit behind the times. Largely unoccupied since 2001, the iconic building has left many wondering what would become of it. Last week, hotelier Andre Balazs announced that he would be turning the terminal into a hotel and changing the name from the TWA Flight Center to the Standard, Flight Center
The Arch Group design studio has transformed a disused building in downtown Moscow into a modular hotel, filling the space with their portable Sleepbox capsules. The modular hotel rooms line the halls of the Sleepbox Hotel Tverskaya, giving the abandoned building new purpose with little renovation.
