Low-cost luxe: bedding down in affordable designer accommodation
Dream Hotel, Tampere, Finland
Dream Hostel owner, hospitality enrepreneur Ville Virkki, has now extended the premises of the industrial building with an additional floor, to create a boutique hotel.
Åkerlundinkatu 2, 33100 Tampere, Finland; Tel: 358.45 236 0517; www.dreamhostel.fi; Rates: from €59
Backstay, Ghent, Belgium
Best known for its high-quality student accommodation, property development company Upgrade Estate has now launched Backstay, a new hostel with 15 double rooms and a series of pod-style beds.
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 128, 9000 Ghent; Tel: 32.9 395 9660; www.backstayhostels.com; Rates: from €18.50
Hostel St James, Logrono, Spain
Named for the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, architect Sergio Rojo has revived a dilapidated nineteenth-century cultural centre in the city of Logrono, a stop off point for travellers.
Ruavieja, 42, 26001 Logrono, Spain; Tel: 34.941 256 976; Rates from: 14 USD
Generator Paris, France
The latest offering from boutique hostel brand, Generator is this time located in Paris’ gentrified 10th arrondissement, moments away from the vibrant Canal St. Martin.
11 Place du Colonel Fabien, 75010 Paris; Tel: 33.1 7098 8400; www.generatorhostels.com; Rates: from €25
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Gstaad Saanenland Youth Hostel, Saanen
Gstadd Saanenland Youth Hostel's gently asymmetrical design references the local chalet vernacular.
Spitzhornweg 25, 3792 Saanen (BE), Switzerland; Tel: 41.33 744 1343; www.youthhostel.ch; Rates from: 40 CHF
Hlemmur Square, Reykjavik, Iceland
The brainchild of hotelier and designer Klaus Ortlieb (behind New York’s Hotel Gotham), Hlemmur Square is a chic hybrid property housed in a distinctive Art Deco building built in the 1920s.
Laugavegur 105, 105 Reykjavik; Tel: 35.4 415 1600; www.hlemmursquare.com; Rates from: 2,700 ISK
Koyasan Guest House, Koyasan
Simplicity and modernity meet in Koyasan guesthouse, a new hostel in the eponymous village in Japan’s Kansai region.
Yubinbango 648-0211, 49-43 Itogun Koyacho Koyasan; Tel: 81. 0736 26 7216; koyasanguesthouse.com; Rates from: 3,500 JPY
Lauren Ho is the former travel editor at Wallpaper*. Now a contributing editor, she roams the globe, writing extensively about luxury travel, architecture and design for both the magazine and the website, alongside various other titles. She is also the European Academy Chair for the World's 50 Best Hotels.
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All aboard: Azimut moor a yacht in the heart of Milan
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By Cristina Kiran Piotti Published
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A low-energy farmhouse provides a rural escape in North Carolina
This low-energy farmhouse is a net zero architectural re-set for a Californian client, an East Coast relocation for a more engaged and low-key lifestyle
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Objects Are By unite creatives with artisans to create a new world of product design
Milan-based brand Studio Objects Are By is introducing a novel idea to the design process. They're asking: What if you let an artist, an actor or a chef moonlight as a product designer?
By Laura May Todd Published