25hours Hotel Bikini Berlin

Berlin

The site is unique, a mixed-use redevelopment of some iconic mid-century office blocks, with views over the park and the zoo and an interior style that’s pure “urban jungle” — unfinished concrete mixing with vibrant colors and natural greenery.

Antonello Colonna Resort & Spa

Labico (Rome)

Chef Antonello Colonna is known for his eclectic tastes and his interest in architecture, so it’s not surprising that his resort is cool and contemporary, housed in a sleek concrete and glass structure that lies low to the ground amid field and forest.

Blow Up Hall 5050

Poznan, Poland

Blow Up Hall 5050 is half interactive art project, half high-design boutique hotel: guests in its stylish public spaces are monitored on video, their images incorporated into a real-time video installation, and rooms vary widely in style — one stay might scarcely resemble the next.

Boho Prague Hotel

Prague

BoHo Prague’s location in the Old Town sets the most classic of scenes, but once through its doors you’re quickly transported into a refined and contemporary vision of luxury-boutique hospitality.

Grand Ferdinand Vienna

Vienna

Vienna already has its fair share of glittering palaces; the Grand Ferdinand Vienna, rather than imitate their splendor, chooses to redefine Viennese glamour and refinement for contemporary travelers.

Hotel Parister

Paris

Behind a relatively conventional façade, Hôtel Parister blazes its own trail; there’s a high-modernist sparseness about its design, and a Brutalist beauty about its concrete surfaces and geometric lines.

Memmo Principe Real Hotel Lisboa

Lisbon

Memmo Príncipe Real Hotel Lisboa is the future: a four-story, rectangular ode to modern architecture and design nestled among 19th-century royal palaces and aristocratic mansions, which are being repurposed by the city’s youngest, hippest entrepreneurs and artisans.

Nobu Hotel Shoreditch

London

Nobu is best known for it sushi, but the hotel, a new build, is equal parts industrial patina and inventive contemporary construction — the rooms are nothing if not distinctive, taking their inspiration from Shoreditch street art and traditional Japanese design.

Viu Hotel

Milan

You don’t show up ill-dressed in Milan. Hotel Viu is the brainchild of noted Milanese architect and designer Nicola Gallizia, and everything from the parquet oak flooring to the sleek bespoke furniture is carefully calibrated to his modernist-meets-retro aesthetic.

Zoku

Amsterdam

Zoku’s slogan is “the end of the hotel room,” and while technically you can still check into a room that’s just a room — the tiny but efficiently laid-out Zoku Room — the draw here is the hotel’s series of cool and colorful modern lofts.