Yule Mountain opens in Hangzhou

Continuation Studio redesigns Hangzhou's Yule Mountain hotel — (Image credit: TBC)

Continuation Studio’s renovation of the Yule Mountain hotel in Zhejiang’s scenic Taihuyuan qualifies as an extreme makeover. So thorough has been the intervention that it’s almost impossible to recognise the footprint of the original farmhouse.

Framed by the tree-cloaked Tianmu mountains, willowy bamboo forests and a bijou creek, the 15-room property fairly luxuriates in its sprawling sequence of stone-lined internal courtyards bordered with slatted screens, corkscrew stairwells, and a vast central reflecting pool whose mirror-flat surface amplifies the sensation of unending space.

A long perforated timber porch along the hotel’s outer edge not only deflects traffic noise, formerly a bane of guests, it also turns the perspective inwards and skywards. From every vantage point, the panorama seduces, with room 204 boasting the best views in the house. In the kitchen, meanwhile, head chef Jiang Yongshui cleaves close to the Zhejiang playbook with green tea dumplings, and garoupers steamed with bamboo shoots.

The intervention that it&rsquo;s almost impossible to recognise the footprint of the original farmhouse.

A long perforated timber porch along the hotel&rsquo;s outer edge not only deflects traffic noise

The panorama seduces, with room 204 boasting the best views in the house

The 15-room property fairly luxuriates in its sprawling sequence of stone-lined internal courtyards

Address

16th Taizi Temple
Baisha Village
Taihuyuan
Hangzhou
Zhejiang province

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Daven Wu is the Singapore Editor at Wallpaper*. A former corporate lawyer, he has been covering Singapore and the neighbouring South-East Asian region since 1999, writing extensively about architecture, design, and travel for both the magazine and website. He is also the City Editor for the Phaidon Wallpaper* City Guide to Singapore.