Athens-based architecture firm Block722 shapes JW Marriott Crete Resort & Spa around light, stone, proportion, and sky, translating the island’s culture of slow living into a restrained architectural language on the hillside of Akra Pelegri.
Athens-based architecture firm Block722 shapes JW Marriott Crete Resort & Spa around light, stone, proportion, and sky, translating the island’s culture of slow living into a restrained architectural language on the hillside of Akra Pelegri.
ANSAYA PHUKET reinterprets traditional Thai architectural principles for contemporary residential living in Phuket, using passive ventilation, climate-responsive planning, and a Double-I villa layout shaped by local conditions.
AvroKO designed the lobby, Luso and Cante at Canopy Bangkok Sukhumvit, which opened August 4 on Sukhumvit Soi 12. The hotel’s design story was inspired by Asoke’s industrial heritage and the nearby Sri Krung Sound Film Studio, one of Thailand’s early sound-film studios.
Shma organized The Standard’s first Thai resort around 234 trees, turning the walk to the beach into a “Journey of the Unexpected” in Hua Hin’s century-old royal seaside town.
For WATG, preservation became a design method on an eco-sensitive island resort.
On the quieter side of Mykonos, the new Four Seasons Hotel pairs Cycladic architecture by Nicos Valsamakis with gardens by landscape architect Helli Pangalou. The quieter story is in the landscape, where a designer who already understood this architect turned an ancient idea about healing into a place you feel before you think.
Rosewood Luang Prabang is a 23-room wellness resort in the Nahm Dong Valley, a short drive from UNESCO-listed Luang Prabang in northern Laos. Its defining idea is that wellness begins with the landscape, where the river, forest, and waterfall do as much as any spa, a principle managing director Jonathan Lallemand is building the future …
Many of the most inspiring Six Senses resorts were designed by one Thai firm. Habita Architects, founded in Bangkok by Krisda Rochanakorn, is the studio quietly setting a global standard for wellness hospitality.
A look at Zara Home Gym Collection, the studios that built this visual language before it, and what its arrival on the high street might mean for luxury wellness design.
A look at Capella Kyoto, designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates with interiors by Brewin Design Office, and what its quiet confidence signals for Asian design.
