
Located in Barcelona´s new business zone and close to the overlooked Fórum, stands the cubic entryway leading to an annexed edifice, the principal building of the hotel. It is tall and slender, a partition in front of the sea. Priceless views from some rooms and the swimming pool of this towering structure, which is practically in the water, like a ship anchored in the Mediterranean. This hotel of...


Next to the highway that circles around the city, on a high spot that looks out over the entire walled in medieval villa, executives on business will find accommodations beyond their expectations in this hotel. A towering edifice serves as the entrance to this newly constructed building that has assumed Toledo’s Mozoarabe essence. Most of the bedrooms and common areas are housed along the right wi...


Mature and essential Catalonian design. Contemporary and cosmopolitan style, also recognizable in the interior architecture proposals of London, Berlin and New York. Every corner of this hotel can be seen as praise for minimalism and an invocation of aesthetic originality that steers clear from the easy geometric and floral forms from the Far East.This hotel stands out from the impersonal establ...


The old Hotel Málaga Palacio, rehabilitated by the official architect of AC, Josep Joanpere. The interiors have a minimalist, contemporary feel and revel in good taste. The vestibule and reception area is sleek and spotless, adorned with wood panels, halogen light and Japanese-style low coffee tables. Although the bedrooms enclose elements already seen in other hotels by this chain, they are all i...


A five-star recompense, after 20 years of bleak closure and four years of strenuous renovations. This is what the hotel chain AC has created from the 19th century palace standing along the centric Gran Vía de Colón, the convent of San Jerónimo de Santa Paula built around 1513, and a cluster of adjoining Moorish houses that date even further back. With Lorenzo Marqués de la Riva leading a team of a...


Lorenzo Marqués and José Luis Pereiro have converted this 19th century convent, which housed the religious order of the Oblatas for over a hundred years, into a suggestive construction. The original building is communicated with a contemporary annex by way of a glassed in corridor that reveals the hallways on each level and air-conditioning tubes in the brutalist architectural style. The interior ...



Previously owned by the chain Habitat under the name of Capital, this hotel does not need a post-card-horizon-line to develop its effective minimalist design, which articulated above all in simplicity and luminosity. The structure is a landmark in this zone of the grand Barcelona. Two concrete cubes stand in front of each other; one is clear and the other dark. They are connected by way of a glass...


The seven colors on Huertas Street. Seven? In reality there are ten, one color for each bedroom in the guesthouse belonging to the Chic & Basic chain, where economic doesn’t have to sacrifice novelty. This establishment enthusiastically fallows the principals of chromotherapy, which establishes a relationship between emotive colors and energies. Therefore, the passion and intensity of the red ...

The old Palacio de Vedruna recovered by the Egyptologist Jordi Clos, enjoys a luxury location on one of the most elegant streets the Eixample neighborhood of Barcelona, between the streets of Pau Clarís and Valencia, very close to the Paseo de Gracia. The architecture, endorsed by names such as Bohigas, Mackay and Martorell, has a stunning neoclassic façade, decorated with diverse floral ornaments...



One step more in the expansion of the chain Habitat, between Catalonia and Madrid: 2005 saw the opening of a new establishment in the heart of Madrid’s Gran Via, occupying classic building constructed in 1917 that is declared Patrimony of the Community of Madrid. This is a recommended spot for living up the frenzy of the bubbling city center and for retreating to shelter of a good book; the hotel ...



It would be hard to find another establishment so snug at the feet of the Pyrenees, and it would be hard to find another establishment so well communicated with the slopes of Baqueira, just 40 meters away from the doors of this exclusive refuge are the chairlifts of Esquirós. Set in the urbanization of Tanau 1700, this hotel is enclosed in stone, wood and slate and pitched roofs. But the real trea...



Due to its unique architectural style and spectacular views of the ocean, this hotel is practically an island inside an island. Perched atop a rocky sea cliff, 20 minutes by car from Funchal, the hotel boasts its position as a watchtower under the sun. Time ago, this was a country home owned by a wealthy family from Madiera, and when it was renovated into a hotel, three new buildings were added on...