Cliffside resorts: the architecture of the edge
Building a luxury hotel on a cliff is an engineering dare wrapped in a view — and the techniques that keep them up there explain a lot about building on difficult sites anywhere.
Rosa MarchettiHospitality
Hotels, resorts and short-stay homes read two ways at once: the design of a room, and the occupancy and rate math that keeps doors open.
Why hotel check-in moved to the bar
The front desk is dissolving into a seat, a tablet, and a welcome drink — hospitality's most practical design change, and the one with the clearest lessons for hosts.
Rosa Marchetti
Spa design principles that work in an ordinary bathroom
Real spas engineer calm with heat, water, sound, and sequencing — techniques that translate to a standard five-by-eight bathroom better than you'd think.
Peter Almeida
Hotel lighting has lessons for every room in your house
Great hotels never light a room from the ceiling — they layer four jobs of light and dim each one. The technique copies to a house for a few hundred dollars.
Rosa Marchetti
Motel conversions and the boutique revival on the old highway
America's mid-century motels — too dated to compete, too well-located to die — are finding second lives as design hotels and monthly housing.
Peter Almeida