Suspended over an old quarry, Coop Himmelb(l)au's winning design for the Dawang Mountain Resort Changsha, China design competition rolls an indoor ski slope, water park and entertainment "ice world" ...

Resort planning in environmentally sensitive areas represents one of the most challenging aspects of contemporary hospitality architecture, requiring architects to balance commercial viability with ...

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A long-proposed luxury resort in Kenwood is closer than ever to being built after Sonoma County supervisors signed off on designs for the facility Tuesday, 14 years after their predecessors approved ...

A resort has been designed by AW2 just 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) from Saudi Arabia‘s first UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hegra. Following the Strategic Master planning Guidelines for Alula and the Saudi ...

Every once and a while you’ll stumble upon something so intimate, so quaint, and so chic that you won’t have the words to describe what you’re feeling. Hermann Bungalows in Palm Springs, California is ...

The most architecturally memorable casinos - the ones that go to preposterous extremes - use pyramids and pirate ships and mock canals to set the mood. Alas, there's no such payoff at the Bay Area's ...

The site came first," says architect Lek Bun-nag. It always does, of course. But in the case of Maia Luxury Resort Spa, a sensitively designed, environmentally conscious resort in the African island ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...