From lakeside resorts to private properties with spectacular sea views, take a virtual tour of the finest waterfront properties making a splash…
Pictured: Sunrise Kempinski Hotel, Beijing, China
Grotto, Canada
Experimental Toronto practice Partisans devised this unusual sauna, which sits perched atop a granite outcropping in Georgian Bay, Lake Huron
Grotto, Canada
Called Grotto, the sauna’s sleek, angular burnt-cedar envelope echoes the silhouette of the main house it belongs to. Unlike the sleek, angular wood exterior, the interior is a jigsaw of complex, amorphous shapes
JW Marriott, Italy
Built on Sacca Sessola, the largest of the hundreds of islets scattered across the Venetian lagoon, the newest launch from hotel group JW Marriott is ‘a return to nature’, says its Milan-based architect Matteo Thun
JW Marriott, Italy
The sprawling property comprises 20 buildings – including private villas, and a spa and wellness centre – surrounded by a lush oasis of olive trees, ivy-trellised terraces and a vegetable garden that furnishes the resort’s two restaurants with fresh produce daily
Manshausen, Norway
It’s not often a hotel is owned by a celebrated Norwegian polar explorer (Børge Ousland in this case) but this sleek retreat Manshausen in northern Norway can stake such a claim. Conceived by Tromsø-based architect Snorre Stinessen, he hotel’s four cabins balance on a series of listed old stone jetties on the quayside, with sweeping views of the island’s rugged landscape and beyond.
