The number of great hotels in New York’s outer boroughs lags behind Manhattan by quite a bit. With recent openings like Ace Hotel Brooklyn, that could be changing.
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Wythe Hotel Shines a Beacon in Brooklyn
As COVID-19 escalated in New York City, we’d heard heart-wrenching stories of hospital workers sleeping in their cars to avoid exposing their families to the virus. The Wythe Hotel had heard these stories too, and they wanted to help.
At many hotels in spectacular locations, the pools are positioned to provide the best possible views of the surrounding scenery. They’re often the star attraction of the property, and as we confirmed recently, Tablet users can’t get enough of them.
These decaying and decrepit buildings have been resurrected from the dead, brought back to life as shockingly fresh hotels.
From poured concrete and exposed pipework to transformed factories and converted shipping containers, more hotels than ever are taking their design cues from industrial architecture.
If you focus only on visual style, you might miss out on the fact that the biggest change to hit the world of hotels has been a conceptual one. The best hotels these days are social spaces.