holidayarchitecture.com is the online directory for architecturally outstanding houses and hotels - and the new partner for Guiding-Architects. At holidayarchitecture.com you will find architecturally outstanding houses and hotels for your next vacation.

Recommendations from the Guiding-Architects network for hotels and other accommodation will be published on holidayarchitecture.com and linked with offers for guided tours at these places. holidayarchitecture.com was launched in 2007, and since 2009 the site has also been published in English.

The site is independent and free. All published hotels and houses are selected according to criteria of the highest quality.
“We are architects ourselves and started to collect information about interesting spots for our holidays.”, Jan Hamer, founder of holidayarchitecture.com, describes the beginning of the project. Meanwhile, hotel operators and owners of holiday homes are lining up to have their location published.

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Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana are famous for drawing inspiration from their immediate surroundings. As alchemists combining materials, textures and colours, the Campana Brothers have created a unique vocabulary of design, giving poetry to everyday and even garbage materials.

Their latest creation, YES! Hotel Athens resulted from a partnership between the Brothers and Dakis Joannou, owner of YES! Hotels and among others, the founder of the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, member of the Board of Trustees of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and of the Tate International Council and also a member of the International Directors’ Council of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

As the Campana Brothers’ first hotel project, YES! Hotel Athens is an adventurous design undertaking, due to open in late Summer 2009. It is a pioneering venture of luxury accommodation combined with ecofriendly design. The hotel will integrate art, architecture and design, transcending the museum or art gallery experience, provoking the senses and challenging the perception of space.

An important part of the renovation project is the integration of ideas from a group of design and architecture students and young professionals who have got together in a workshop directed by Fernando and Humberto. The workshop group is creating furniture and prototypes whilst exploring methods and techniques associated with the Campanas’ style: reusing and reinterpreting local material and culture. 10 of their creations will be on display at the Albion Gallery during the launch of YES! Hotel.

Here are some sneak peaks of the workshop products. You can find more on the weblog created especially by and for the Campanas’ workshop.

Posted by: Arcult.gr

Capsule hotels are the dernier cri in Amsterdam. No wonder really, as the city’s regular hotels are notoriously overbooked and overpriced. After QBic, which is located inside the World Trade Center and mostly aimed at business travellers, CitizenM is the latest addition to the genre.

This new hotel brand has high hopes. In fact, they’re planning to take their concept to cities all over the globe, as a none-too-modest world map covered in little red “M”s on their website demonstrates. The recipe for success is “budget luxury”: cutting out everything that you never really needed in a hotel room, maximizing the really relevant stuff, and spicing it all up with a good pinch of style and design.

The pilot hotel stands next to Schiphol airport and was opened in June 2008. Designed by Concrete Associates (of Supperclub fame), it consists of prefab steel capsules with one large window each, stacked on a base containing the lobby. The rooms measure a mere 14 square meters, but sport a king-sized bed, LCD-tv and rain shower. The lobby, pardon me: the lounges have been furnished completely by Vitra. There’s no reception, but a self-service computer terminal, and a self-service bar, where the weary traveller can stock up on prefab organic sandwiches and cold beer in designy bottles.

The location next to the airport deserves to be called convenient rather than charming, but with double room prices starting at 69 Euros, it’s certainly a bargain, especially considering the design standard. The second CitizenM-branch is already under construction, this time in a more central location in the South of Amsterdam. Glasgow and London will be next, and who knows, maybe the whole world will soon be CitizenMified? At any rate the new hotel chain has already bagged the European Hotel Design Award 2008, just a few months after opening.

Posted by: architour