These materials and furnishings were designed to foster refined yet comfortable settings.

RECORD presents a wide-ranging selection of hospitality projects—from Oslo to Mexico City—that illustrates how the industry is alive and well and continues to push the boundaries of inventive design.

The richly layered scheme for a hotel and office complex in a changing Oslo neighborhood invites future adaptation.

In Mexico City, a new hotel meets the street with a lightness that belies the concrete block composing its facades.

Lissoni Casal Ribeiro transforms the giant Shougang Steelworks on the outskirts of Beijing into a luxury hotel.

Becker + Becker transforms New Haven's Armstrong Rubber Building into one of the country's most sustainable hotels.

Existing vaults and bold new pavements define Wingårdhs’ latest project for the Nobis hotel chain.

Architects Maison Édouard François and Peter Marino transform Henri Sauvage’s riverside-wing of the existing La Samaritaine into a luxury hotel.

Max von Werz anchors a new hotel in the historic fabric of La Paz, Mexico, a city with a literary legacy.

Herzog & de Meuron and Studio Rottet design a luminous luxury hotel in Washington, D.C.