Detail in Contemporary Hotel Design by Drew Plunkett and Olga Reid is published by Laurence King, £40 (laurenceking.com).

Popular elements of modern design include clean interiors with ... with a sleek and smooth aesthetic spill throughout the hotel's lobby to the pod-like guest rooms and retro-futuristic outdoor ...

Imagine the quintessential contemporary Los Angeles hotel ... Gulla Jonsdottir has been overseeing the interior design of the 105-room hotel, which opened in January. Located on a narrow tree ...

Contrasting the identity of its previous modern classical aesthetics ... guests arrive at "the new heart of the hotel," the lobby lounge, which has a flexible design that varies from being ...

At a 1988 talk, the journalist Paul Goldberger asked Portman about the standoffish design ... contemporary airport terminal—but its layered spaces are perfectly suited to a public-facing hotel ...

Hints of modern design such as sculptural ... to invoke when people arrive in the lobby.” Xavier Lablaude, General Manager, The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel “I wanted to respect and convey the ...