Grand Hotel HeiligendammIt’s not exactly tropical, but the Baltic is a sea all the same, and for the German aristocrats of the nineteenth century, Heiligendamm was the (...)
Goldman 25Hours HotelAs they expand across Germany, one thing the 25hours group can’t be accused of is repeating themselves. The Hamburg version looks like it’s from (...)
GerbermuehleSome of the best contemporary-design hotels are renovations of existing buildings. But few start with structures as storied as Frankfurt’s Gerbermühle. (...)
Ellington HotelThe Ellington is, at least on one level, a throwback to a couple of Berlin’s golden eras — its reconstructed Weimar-style facade fronts a block-long (...)
Fairmont Hotel Vier JahreszeitenThe Vier Jahreszeiten has set the standard for luxury-hotel elegance in Hamburg since the late 19th century, a decade or so before the first Fairmont (...)
East HotelWe’ll try to resist linking it to some sweeping generalization about the practical and sensible nature of some imagined German national character, and (...)
Charles Hotel - MunichForget about Oktoberfest kitsch and the cliches of provincial Bavaria. Today’s Munich is a modern, cosmopolitan city — and it’s finally starting to (...)
Empire Riverside HotelGiven the rather colorful reputation of Hamburg’s St. Pauli district—long a harborside pit stop for visiting sailors, and home to the infamous (...)
Brenner's Park Hotel And SpaBaden-Baden is well-known as a spa, resort and convention town, and since 1872 Brenner's Park Hotel and Spa has been its finest hotel. This is a side of (...)
Bleibtreu HotelLocated on the sleepy Bleibtreustrasse, just off the shopper’s paradise of the Kurfürstendamm, the Bleibtreu Hotel is the sort of downtown boutique (...)
25Hours Hotel Tailored By Levi'sSpace concerns prohibit us from saying its name more than once, so here it is, eccentric capitalization and all: 25hours Hotel tailored by Levi’s is, as (...)
WaldspiraleA spiraled apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants. It is a loud testament to Hundertwasser's fear of straight lines.
Duesseldorfer schauspielhaus, GermanyThe playhouse imagined by the Düsseldorf architect Bernhard Pfau is one of the greatest theater constructions built after the war. Not only its curved (...)
Nürburgring - The Motorsport Race TrackKnow as "The Ring" between enthusiasts, the track was built in 1925 and it is considered to be the toughest, most dangerous and most demanding (...)
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