These are hotels in buildings drawn for another purpose, or hotels that keep works of art in their public parts. What is recorded below is the shell: what the building was, when it went up, and which of its rooms are open to callers.
Barcelona, Spain
The street front belongs to the former Palau Vedruna; the guest floors behind it were rebuilt. Pieces from the owner's Egyptian holdings stand in the halls and on the landings, with more held at his museum nearby.
Barcelona, Spain
Hundreds of small ceramic eyes were fixed across the neoclassical front by an artist, and they are the one loud thing about a plain elevation. Dining rooms and a bar occupy the lower two floors.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Several narrow houses were tied together and given one entrance, which leaves the interior full of level changes. A small terrace with water sits on the roof, above the lane that runs to the river.
Hamburg, Germany
The house backs onto the canal, and its trading past is legible in the shell rather than the fittings, which are new throughout. It stands among warehouse blocks, on a lane narrow enough that the front is read at close range.
Zurich, Switzerland
Brewing halls were kept and given new floors, and the tallest of them now holds a library whose shelves run the full height. Thermal baths in the old cellars are reached from the same site.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Practice rooms and halls were laid out for sound, which left thick walls and generous ceiling heights for the rooms that followed. The stair and much of the stonework at the entrance were held over from the academy.
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