Hotel breakfast spaces became the new lobby — on purpose
The communal table by the coffee machine is the most engineered room in the hotel: mornings pay for the building, and design has noticed.
Peter AlmeidaHospitality
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.
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 Marchetti
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