How do we make a hotel of genuine experiences in Las Vegas, the City of Pastiche? How do we extract the identity of the Mondrian and the Delano Hotels without producing copycat versions?

Around one hour south of Sydney, near the town of Bundeena, right where the bushland meets the sea, 15 contemporary houses have just been completed, designed by Tony Owen NDM Architects. It’s a place of great natural beauty where any large developments would usually be unthinkable.

Milan-based architects Iosa Ghini Associati have designed an extension to a hotel in Budapest, Hungary, called New York Residence.
The project comprises an extension to the adjacent New York Palace Boscolo Hotel, including 60 new rooms and a floor of offices.
A conference centre attached to the hotel will include an auditorium to seat 500 people, while a commercial gallery and business centre will occupy the ground floor of the building. 140 residential apartments will be located between the first and seventh floors

London Metropolitan University’s Architecture Research Unit has proposed one of three schemes chosen for the next stage in the development of South Korea’s enormous new reclaimed city of Saemangeum.
Alvaro Siza once speculated on the possibility of building in the Sahara desert, a site just about as close to tabula rasa as can be imagined.