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Hotel Mare e Pineta, Milano Marittima, Italy

On a golden stretch of the Adriatic coast known as Milano Marittima, Hotel Mare e Pineta just got a contemporary makeover by Milanese legend Piero Lissoni. The architect has ribbon-cut a new wing featuring a ground-floor restaurant and 16 rooms and suites, but the overhaul of the 1920s hotel - one of the region’s most exclusive - started in earlier phases with public areas, lobby and beach club. Lissoni has created a clean canvas of white walls with teak, bronze and glass. Stay tuned for a new spa and more room renovations in the coming year.

Viale Dante 40, Milano Marittima, Italy; Tel: 39.544 992262; www.selecthotels.it

Writer: JJ Martin

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Mikkeller & Friends, Copenhagen, Denmark

Mikkeller & Friends, a contemporary beer hall located in Copenhagen's Nørrebro district, is the slightly unorthodox collaboration between a former maths and physics teacher and two of his pupils from one of the city's colleges. Tutor Mikkel Borg Bjergsø and students Tobias Emil Jensen and Tore Gynther started brewing beer in the school’s facilities after classes, going on to establish the wildly popular Danish microbreweries Mikkeller and To Øl. They aim to brew up something new with their latest venture, Mikkeller & Friends, a modern take on the Bierstube that offers 40 beers on tap. Turquoise floors, walls and bar top contrast with the custom-made wooden bar, seats, tables and lights assembled by Kristian Lillelund of carpentry studio Rum4. Designer Karsten K Lülloff's vision was of an informal, masculine setting, so he left the blond wood untreated and kept the furniture freestanding, enabling customers to congregate in their own intimate groups.

Stefansgade 35, Copenhagen, Denmark; tel: 45.33 31 0415; www.mikkeller.dk

Writer: Micha van Dinther

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To mark its 20th anniversary, Design Hotels has launched a giant version of its annual tome, which comes complete with its own pedestal in the form of Alvar Aalto's celebrated Stool 60 and table

Design Hotels launches a collector's edition of its annual book

Travel 14 May 2013

Barmini, Washington DC, USA

The man behind the award-winning Minibar restaurant, molecular Spanish chef José Andrés is adding to his Washington DC empire with Barmini. Offering concoctions like the 'Salt Air Margarita' invented over 15 years ago, Andrés brings us his first ever chef-driven cocktail concept, reinventing classics and bringing forgotten techniques to capital city diners. Spanish architect and designer Juli Capella, along with Georgetown-based architecture and design firm CORE and Forrester Construction Company, have created an inviting space that marries hard and soft surfaces. Guests sit at white pod counters, looking onto shelves behind the bar filled with antique glassware (some dating back to the 1930's), vintage barware and classic cocktail books. Cerruti Baleri's cactus sofa and fruit pouffes add a pop of colour to the stark black and white interiors.

Barmini, 855 E Street, NW, Washington D.C; www.minibarbyjoseandres.com

Writer: Carole Dixon

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Coya, London, UK

Continuing London's recent Peruvian invasion, the latest project by Arjun Waney (the man behind Zuma, La Petite Maison and The Arts Club) is private members bar and restaurant, Coya. Set within the grand confines of a classic Georgian building on Piccadilly, the space has been designed by London-based Richard Saunders of David D'Almada's company Sagrada, who has conjured a bohemian atmosphere with a modern spin. The eclectic interiors feature Peruvian antiques, painted murals and colourful textures. Food, by ex Ivy chef, Sanjay Dwivedi is a tasty array of Peruvian delights such as Conchas con ají limo (Scallops with limo chilli crumbs), while Lima's very best bars were scoured to create Coya's very own Pisco Sour served in traditional botija mud containers, traditionally used to store Pisco since the 1800s. The downstairs restaurant and pisco bar is open to everyone, but members will also have use of the separate dining area, outdoor terrace and bar.

118 Piccadilly, London, W1J 7NW; Tel: 44. 020 7042 7118; www.coyarestaurant.com

Writer: Sara Henrichs

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Leis Houses by Peter Zumthor, Leis, Switzerland

When we visited the beautiful wooden holiday home of Annalisa and Peter Zumthor in the small village of Leis in Switzerland over two years ago (W*142), we admired both Zumthor's timeless and refined architecture and the beautiful mountain site. If the visit gave you house envy, now you can have a taste of what it feels like to stay in a building designed by the much-admired Swiss architect. The first two solid-timber houses, the Oberhus and the Unterhus, were completed in 2009 and while the Zumthors occupy the former, the latter is now available for rent. A third house, the Türmlihus, will be a new addition to the family this year. Currently under construction, it will be available to rent from Autumn.

Tel: 41.78 642 8009; zumthorferienhaeuser.ch

Writer: Ellie Stathaki
Photography: Ralph Feiner, copyright Zumthor Ferienhäuser

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Villa Extramuros, Arraiolos, Portugal

Portugal's latest boutique hotel, on the outskirts of pretty, whitewashed Arraiolos, breaks the creative mould. Inspired by the pre-Roman fortified farmhouses that once dominated the area, Extramuros has a monastic all-white open-plan kitchen, reception and dining area. Five bedrooms over two floors, designed by Jordi Fornells and Gonçalo Byrne protégé Rolf Heinemann, have recessed angular garden terraces edged by sliding glass doors overlooking acres of olive grove. The local natural cork, with its cool, velvety touch and intense aroma, swathes walls and ceilings and provides thermal and acoustic insulation. Quirky Cubist turrets protrude from the roof garden and maximise the natural light below. You can order breakfast, or even a massage, under ancient olive trees by the infinity pool, or take your Mariage Frères tea with a fresh pastry.

Horta do Chaveiro, Caixa postal 209, 7040-114 Arraiolos. Portugal; Tel: 35.1 266429506; www.villaextramuros.com

Writer: Rupert Eden

August travel news: editor's picks

British Aviation Posters comprises a fascinating collection of vintage advertisements during the golden era of aviation history

Vintage British aviation posters

Aan Zee Restaurant, Oostvoorne, The Netherlands

Peeking out of a solitary patch of land within the Voornes Duin nature reserve in the Netherlands is the twisting spiral of a new restaurant, called ‘Aan Zee’. Designed by Amsterdam-based firm Emma Architects, the striking structure is completely self-sufficient, using the sun, wind and wood fire as sources for its heating, cooling, ventilation and water management. Fashioned mainly out of glass and wood, which has been left chemically untreated and heated to withstand the elements, the building can also be dismantled, with each material component fully re-usable. Using fresh ingredients from local farmers and fisherman, the menu comprises a mouth-watering array of comfort treats from tomato soup to cheese and ham toasties.

Strandweg 1, 3233 CW Oostvoorne; Tel: 31.181-820990; www.aanzeeoostvoorne.nl

Writer: Lauren Ho

July travel news: editor's picks

Shrimpy's is the latest in the seemingly unstoppable poppables conceived by London's Bistrotheque restaurant team

Photogprahy: Jamie Smith

New restaurant Shrimpy's opens in London

The restaurant in Bulgari's new Knightsbridge hotel is accessed by a sweeping staircase, featuring a handcrafted steel balustrade. It is backed by a metalised fabric-covered wall, adorned with sketches of Bulgari's jewellery collections from the 1920s and 30s

Bulgari Hotel, London

AMMO Café, Hong Kong

In a city that is still hell-bent on thrusting up silvery skyscrapers at every street corner, it’s almost a relief to stumble into the newly opened AMMO Café in Hong Kong’s Admiralty quarter. Set in a low-rise, mid-19th-century British ammunitions compound, the café is the sophomore project for locally-based interior designer Joyce Wang, following her breakout renovation work on the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Taking cues from Jean-Luc Godard’s sci-fi classic Alphaville, Wang has created a grand statement space, lining the high-ceilinged room with chandeliers made of burnished copper plumping pipes, bent copper mesh and rods, and copper ribs, all of which are obvious nods to the building’s history. In the kitchen, Tony Cheng has concocted an east meets west menu that includes angel hair pasta with uni, slow cooked eggs with toro and sea urchin, and langoustines wrapped in Vietnamese rice paper and basil.

9 Justice Drive, Admiralty, Hong Kong; Tel: 852. 2537 9888

Writer: Daven Wu

June travel news: editor's picks

The Port Adriano marina is a pared down and elegant structure by Philippe Starck

Port Adriano marina by Philippe Starck, Mallorca

Discover & Deliver is a new online concept that enables you to purchase furniture you've seen in design hotels around the world, including Belgraves in London (pictured)

Discover & Deliver: a new website that brings the hotel to your home

Café Royal, London, UK

Alfred and Georgi Akirov, the duo behind the Mamilla hotel in Jerusalem (W*127) and the Conservatorium in Amsterdam (W*157), are soon to complete a three year-long project with David Chipperfield Architects transforming the legendary Café Royal into a contemporary hotel, in readiness for hosting guests during the Olympics this summer. Opened in 1865, the Café Royal was the favourite haunt of bohemians and intellectuals such as George Bernard Shaw, Paul Verlaine and Oscar Wilde (who once had too much absinthe in the Grill Room and mistook a waiter stacking chairs for a man watering tulips), and later saw the likes of Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill and, more recently, David Bowie walk through its doors.

Chipperfield’s team restored the original 1860s and 1930s features of the listed Domino and Grill Rooms, which will reopen as a private members’ club and restaurant respectively, and took inspiration from the apartment of Regent Street architect John Nash to create the interiors of the hotel’s spacious 155 rooms with marble, oak and bronze details, high windows and large lobbies. The five suites, meanwhile, have been sympathetically restored by Donald Insall Associates. Our favourites are the Empire Suite, which boasts a massage room, and the Dome Suite located under the building’s copper dome, which has two terraces overlooking Piccadilly Circus and Big Ben. Café Royal opens in September 2012

68 Regent Street, London; www.thesethotels.com

Writer: Sara Henrichs
Photography: Michael Bodiam

May travel news: editor's picks

Berlin’s Plus One offers travellers not only a well-appointed apartment in Kreuzkölln, but the chance to meet a like-minded local for an insider experience

Plus One Berlin: stay, meet a local, be a Berliner

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Public Chicago, USAFresh from launching his Editions group, boutique hotel king Ian Schrager has opened the first property of new, more affordable hotel chain in the US. Working with interior designer Anda Andrei, he has completely overhauled the Ambassador East hotel, built in 1926, whose famous Pump Room restaurant was frequented by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and John F Kennedy. The new hotel's 285 rooms, are classic, clean and comfortable - 'we are not trying to be hip - in fact we are anti-hip,' says Schrager - and start from a modest $135 a night. Meanwhile, the supper club-inspired Pump Room has been reinvigorated by chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, who has also devised a gourmet takeaway service: the Public Express.1301 North State Parkway, Chicago, USA; tel: 1.312 787 3700 www.publichotels.comWriter: Sara Henrichs

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