Hotel

The recently completed PituRooms in Indonesia has to be one of the skinniest hotels in the world. Designed by Sahabat Selojene, it has a width of just 280 cm and provides an excellent example of overcoming a very challenging inner-city plot.

It has been a crazy year for Saudi Arabian architecture, but the country isn't done surprising us yet. Plans have now been revealed for an unusual hexagonal hotel that will be nestled into the rugged desert landscape.

Singapore is often referred to as the Garden City – and with good reason. The city state is packed with greenery filled buildings. Former World Building of the Year winner WOHA has now added to the lush landscape with its Pan Pacific Orchard.

Overtreders W has taken an unusual approach to creating its Stable Stack tiny cabin/hotel room. The structure was built using borrowed materials and is secured together with straps, meaning it can eventually be dismantled and the materials returned.

Champion slackliner Jaan Roose recently took a vertigo-inducing stroll across a thin line stretching from one of the amazing Katara Towers to the other, completing the feat at a height of 185 m above the streets of the Qatari capital Doha.

WJ Studio has recently completed a modern hotel with an impressive vaulted roofline, taking the form of upside down fishing boats. Dubbed Boatyard Hotel, the striking hotel is nestled on a tiny island in the Shanwan village, Wujiang District.

Grain silos are a fertile source of inspiration for architects around the world. The latest example of this is a disused grain terminal in Collingwood, Ontario, which is undergoing an ambitious transformation into a hotel and residential building.

In most hotels, if the temperature dropped to -5 °C inside the room, there would be complaints made to the front desk, but that's the whole point of Sweden's Icehotel. The annual attraction is now open and is defined by amazing ice sculpted art.

Architect Ludwig Godefroy has created a minimalist hotel that embraces environmental consciousness and social responsibility. The result is a collection of nine bare-boned concrete suites that seem to be taken over by the surrounding natural jungle.

NOA has created an eye-catching swimming pool and sauna extension to an existing hotel in South Tyrol, Italy. The project takes the form of a mountainside village made up of several huts, including some that have been turned upside down.

Even if it eventually becomes available, a vacation to the Moon is going to be financially out of reach for many. However, a $5 billion architecture proposal aims to offer visitors a tiny taste of lunar life right here on Earth.

Back in March, we reported on a remarkable new spherical treehouse-style hotel designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group that was to be covered in birdhouses. The one-of-a-kind getaway is now complete and has opened to visitors in Sweden.