In the ancient walled city of Datong, on the edge of China's volcanic plateau, Beijing-based Ruize Design has spent recent years working on a thousand-year-old building rather than a new one. Cloudspa Sanctuary , a two-courtyard Siheyuan transformed into a healing retreat with private hot springs and basalt-lined pools, has been named LIV Interior Design of the Year - Living Space, one of two top honours in this year's edition.
Set along the tranquil shores of Lamai Beach in Koh Samui, Ammatara Pura Pool Villas invites guests to embrace the philosophy of Raja Living. Here, architecture, hospitality and authentic Thai heritage come together to create an experience that feels less like a luxury stay and more like stepping into a royal way of life.
Building on What's Already There As this year's LIV Hospitality Design Awards winners settle into the wider conversation, certain patterns become difficult to ignore. Properties built for warm-climate escape recur across the list. Sustainability surfaces less as a stated goal than as a working method. And several of the strongest projects are renovations rather than new builds. Read together, the winners point toward where hospitality design is heading as the year continues. Designed for the Season Several of this year's winners speak directly to the season ahead. Kona Village , on Hawaii's Big Island, reimagines an 81-acre resort around the history of Kaupulehu, led by Greg Warner and Mike McCabe of Walker Warner. The rebuilt property includes 150 traditional guest hale, a new spa, and five restaurants and bars—two of which carry over from the original resort. Rather than a wholesale reinvention, the project reads as a continuation: a property rebuilt around what made the original site significant in the first place.
Located in Sorrento on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, Australia, architect Marco Di Bartolo breathes new life into a historic waterfront residence, transforming the 1879 property into a refined Mediterranean retreat where heritage architecture and contemporary living exist in perfect harmony.
In a world where true luxury is no longer defined only by comfort and elegance but increasingly by silence, nature and the ability to breathe, Hyatt Regency Dongguan stands out as an ideal destination to recharge and reconnect with what truly matters.
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Boa Viagem Apartment
With a view of Boa Viagem Beach in Recife, Brazil, the interior design project, signed by Architects Office, invites the landscape to enter the apartment by capturing the vastness of the horizon.
The architecture and design studio Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez created one of the most visionary and thought-provoking spaces at Casa Decor 2023, transforming domestic architecture into a manifesto for harmonious coexistence between humans and animals.
Luigi Rosselli Architects recently completed the renovation of a 1970s residence perched above a narrow coastal sound of glistening emerald waters, surrounded by steep sandstone cliffs and lush vegetation in Coogee, Sydney.
