Top 10 Hotel Designs of 2025: From Philippe Starck's Surrealist Hotel to Oaxaca's Pre-Hispanic Pyramid Design
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Cajsa Carlson
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The article reviews the top 10 hotel designs of 2025, highlighting innovative hospitality architecture and design trends. It features a surrealist hotel by Philippe Starck and an Oaxaca hotel modeled on pre-Hispanic pyramids, showcasing how the hospitality industry has elevated its game with exciting new openings that range from adaptive reuse of existing buildings to brand-new architectural designs.
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The hospitality industry stepped up its game this year, with a number of exciting openings ranging from the adapted reuse of existing buildings to brand-new designs.
Below, we've collected
we explore the best hotel designs of the year
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