The Ritz-Carlton Beijing, Financial StreetMost Ritz-Carltons look, from the lobby if not from the street, like something out of Revolutionary France; in 21st-century Beijing that would just be (...)
The Regent BeijingBeijing is placing big bets on the future, with a wealth of high-profile building projects — Herzog & de Meuron’s Olympic Stadium and the Rem (...)
The Opposite HouseThough it’s called The Opposite House it’s not as high-concept as it may sound. Not a hotel where down is up, or the flat-screen TVs watch you, but a (...)
The Peninsula BeijingThe Palace Hotel, now the Peninsula Palace Beijing, is exactly what one expects from a Peninsula hotel in the Far East. This should not be taken to mean (...)
The EmperorWith the amount of construction that’s going on in Beijing at the moment we’d probably do well to get used to this sort of thing. For years, nothing (...)
Sofitel On Renmin SquareWith every decade that goes by China opens itself further to the West. By now Hong Kong feels like it’s right next door, and Beijing and Shanghai are (...)
Shangri-La Hotel, SuzhouSuzhou may be best known for its thousand-year heritage, and the innumerable gardens, temples and bridges. But that’s the postcard Suzhou — the (...)
Shangri-La Hotel, BeijingThe palatial megahotels of the Far East are renowned for their state-of-the-art facilities and for their almost absurdly high standard of service — the (...)
Shangri-La Hotel ChengduChengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province, is perhaps less familiar to foreign visitors than places like Beijing or Shanghai. But in an (...)
Shangri-La HarbinFirst-time visitors to Harbin might find themselves checking maps to see if this is really China. The distinctly Russian-style architecture (not to (...)
Red Capital RanchJust as the Red Capital Residence fondly recalls a bygone era of revolutionary Communist kitsch, the Red Capital Ranch, in the countryside outside of (...)
Le Royal Meridien ShanghaiIn Shanghai these days they don’t make anything small, least of all the luxury hotels. Just as in Beijing, there’s a construction boom going on, with (...)
Hotel Of Modern ArtYes, why not a Hotel of Modern Art. To be more exact, perhaps a hotel of modern sculpture: this resort outside Guilin, in China’s south central Guangxi (...)
Hotel GIf you accept the premise that this is China’s century (and we’re all just living in it) then logically one inescapable conclusion follows: they’re (...)
Commune By The Great Wall KempinskiThe Commune by the Great Wall Kempinski is most often described as an architectural museum, a design exhibition, an exercise in cutting-edge modernism — (...)
China World Hotel, BeijingThough you’d never guess it from the vaguely institutional name, the China World Hotel is actually a Shangri-La property — with all the luxury (...)
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