3 of the 100% Hotel Design Awards 2016 Winners Receive a 2-Night Voucher for Design Hotels around the Globe

The Winners of 100% Hotel Design Awards 2016 have been announced! Now it is time for them to receive their prizes. The winners of the “Best City Hotel”, “Best Resort” and “Best Hotel – Public Votes” categories (Cocomat Hotel Athens by Elastic Architects, Casa Cook Rhodes by Vana Pernari and Lambs & Lions and Kenshō Boutique Hotel & Suites by Contemporary Mediterranean Housing respectively) will each be  provided with a 2-day voucher (breakfast included) for one of the following exquisite design hotels, courtesy of Design Hotels.

 

The Hotels featured in the prize vouchers are the following: 

 

Hotel Unique, Brazil, São Paulo ( Rooms 94 / Architecture Ruy Ohtake / Interior Design João Armentano) 

Located in the well-heeled residential area of Jardins in São Paulo, Hotel Unique is a must for savvy architecture fans and well-traveled urbanites alike. The spacey, green-weathered copper that adorns the facade stretches across the building`s unusual shape, a massive inverted arch with circular windows like over-sized portholes. In guestrooms, unusual accessories from around the globe add to the ultra-cool feel, which is accented by the staff`s coolly impeccable service. Upstairs, what is perhaps São Paulo`s finest rooftop terrace offers amazing views of the city: that is, if guests can take their eyes off the fascinating crimson swimming pool that runs along its edge.

 

 

This ship-shaped specimen of innovatively novel architecture is bold from the outside and ensures that rooms and communal areas are consistently irregular. 

 

 

Curved walls and expansive spaces gave the designer a unique canvas to play with, while stone and wood contrast sumptuous materials in the statement lobby.

 

 

Dramatic 80-foot-high interior hollows and corridors define the curved design of Hotel Unique—and this theme continues inside the rooms, where one finds no right angles at all. A massive bed stitched from dozens of velvet tubes shimmers in purple, dark blue, and green and is placed directly in the middle of the rooms, assuring guests that the hotel stays true to its name in the private areas as well. The 94 rooms and suites, a blend of hi-tech details and natural elements, are a study in ultra-cool modernism. Havaianas slippers in each room—a popular Brazilian accessory—help guests kick back. 

 

 

 

 

The Mira Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong ( Rooms 492 / Interior Design CAD International / The Original Martin Lee)

 

Overlooking orchid-scented Kowloon Park, The Mira Hong Kong is located in the heart of Tsimshatsui. From its award-winning 21st-century spa to the mirrored walls of its crisp contemporary bedrooms, The Mira Hong Kong has been designed as a sanctuary for inner-city reflection.

 

The curving white fins of the lobby’s vaulted ceiling create a sphere of open space, while jade-green stalks of bamboo add soothing natural textures to the private cabanas at Vibes bar. The Mira Hong Kong melds traditional Asian hospitality with touchable technological wizardry—each of its 492 rooms and suites is equipped with a sleek, portable, and complimentary Wi-Fi device for use on-the-go, allowing for 24/7 connectivity and sharing the signal to up to 10 devices. Guests can also experience a contemporary European dining experience at WHISK, where innovative dishes are paired with exquisite, handpicked wines from an impressive collection.

 

 

The Mira’s smooth, slate black facade is a study in minimalist efficiency, soaring high above the perfumeries and designer boutiques of this Hong Kong neighborhood.

 

 

The Mira Hong Kong`s 492 rooms are dressed in shades of red, green, silver or purple, creatively corresponding to your mood. In the marble-floored lobby, undulating purple and lilac lines point the way to curvaceous ink-black sculptures. By fusing clean lines and cutting-edge technology with natural textures and sleek finishes, lifestyle guru Colin Cowie and Miami-based interior architect Charles Allem have created a space to unwind and re-energize in the heart of modern Hong Kong.

 

The Mira Hong Kong`s 492 vibrantly accented rooms feature modernist chairs like Arne Jacobsen’s modernist Egg chair. Bose iPod docks create warm, resonant soundscapes that bounce off the translucent bathroom walls, while tropical-strength rain showers provide solace from the heat of Hong Kong’s vibrant, neon-lit streets. High-tech touches in the bedrooms include personalized color schemes, 40-inch LCD TVs, and a smart ‘My Mira’ service that puts you in touch with a concierge at the touch of a button. There’s even a ‘Handy’ smartphone device that lets you pick up calls to your room as you roam around Hong Kong, with unlimited data connectivity and free local and international calls. The Mira’s eight metallic, purple-hued Specialty Suites, uniquely feature black wooden floors, angular white tables and silver, cone-shaped armchairs and designer couches, and have private terraces facing the leafy fifth-floor open-air lounge or the city. 

 

 

Martin Lee is the vice-chairman of Henderson Land and the CEO of Miramar Hotel and Investment Company, as well as a director of The Hong Kong and China Gas Company. With his sleek and chic hotels, the iconoclastic Martin Lee is infusing the Asian financial capital with his finely honed sense of style and sophistication.

 

 

 

New Majestic Hotel, Singapore ( Rooms 30 /Architecture DP Architects /Interior Design Asylum, Phunk Studio, fFurious, DP Architects /The Original Loh Lik Peng )

 

A revamped historic hotel on a Chinatown street in Singapore once notorious for housing wealthy men`s mistresses, the New Majestic, with its shophouse façade, blends perfectly with the neighborhood. But inside, the juxtaposition of antique and modern, interior and exterior, provides a theatrical environment where guests can indulge their imaginations. The 30 guestrooms are individually crafted visions by a diverse group of creatives enlisted by Colin Seah of Ministry of Design. His core crew came up with four room ‘typologies,’ including the Hanging Bed Rooms where larger-than-life murals span whole walls, and the sensuous Loft Room where vintage twin tubs look up on an attic-area sleeping space that appears to float. In the hotel`s restaurant, ceiling portholes open onto the floor of the outdoor pool, as swimmers cast shadows onto the tables below, while the sensuously curved white staircase seems to invite a line of chorus girls. Majestic, indeed.

 

 

The New Majestic Hotel is a stimulating brew of local culture, art, and design that pries apart the molds of convention. The dramatic all-white open concept period lobby features vintage Compton fans, while the Majestic Restaurant, which is a modern reinterpretation of one of old Singapore’s favorite Chinese dining rooms, offers a dramatic lap pool with glass inserts floating above. Owner/creator Loh Lik Peng has engaged five of the city’s most prominent creative talents drawn from the fields of interior and graphic design, fashion and film production to personalize the five signature suites. The results are spaces ranging from cement-clad serenity to an outrageous party-den in fuchsia and turquoise. With all its quirkiness, the New Majestic Hotel is a tasteful concoction of heritage chic and modern design that brings out Singapore’s best—both old and new.

 

 

Of the 30 rooms, some feature floor to ceiling mirrors; others feature aquarium-like bathtubs in the middle of the room, whimsical four-poster beds suspended by poles from the ceiling, or a garden terrace with an outdoor tub. Each has been transformed into a visual and conceptual experience through site-specific artwork created by nine of Singapore’s emerging artists.

 

 

Loh Lik Peng’s global lifestyle draws him to different places for different reasons. The intimate scale of Dublin reminds him of his childhood, while London’s East End is all about the energetic vibe and the sense that new things are happening all the time. He opened his first venture, Hotel 1929, in a former brothel in Singapore’s red-light district in 2003. With its swank design and instant buzz, 1929 became a popular destination for travelers and locals alike. Three years later he opened the New Majestic and upped the style quotient in Singaporean hospitality even further. New properties opened recently in Singapore where he now lives, Shanghai, London, and Sydney. And not one of them is located in what your average guidebook would have considered the “right” kind of neighborhood—that is until his properties have put their once-undesirable districts on the style map.

 

 

Cover photo: The Mira Hong Kong, China