An architectural register of hotels
Eleven hotels, set out in four chapters, described the way a drawing describes a building: what it is made of, how it is arranged, and what it asks of the person standing inside it.
Four chapters, four zones
The register divides into four zones. Each is dimensioned below and drawn to the same convention: an outlined boundary, a reference tag, and a line back to the origin point.
Art Hotels
Hotels where the building, its collection and its commissions are part of the reason to book a room.
3 entries
Open chapter A-100Capsule Hotels
Compact-berth hotels built around a small sleeping unit and generous shared floors.
3 entries
Open chapter B-200Casino Hotels
Hotels with a gaming floor among their facilities, described here as places to stay first.
4 entries
Open chapter C-300Ice Hotels
Seasonal hotels built from snow and ice, rebuilt each winter and melted each spring.
1 entry
Open chapter D-400Nothing here is for sale. There are no scores, no stars and no booking links — only written descriptions of buildings that are interesting for a reason we can state plainly. Where a chapter is short, it is short because the real supply is short, and we would rather leave a sheet partly blank than draw something that does not exist.