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A motel in Bjerka, Norway. A motel, also known as a motor hotel, motor inn or motor lodge, is a hotel designed for motorists, usually having each room entered directly from the parking area for motor vehicles rather than through a central lobby.
It’ll be a regular hotel perk. The drinks go with the games in the lobby as a way to meet fellow travelers. Later in the year, the 125-room EVEN Hotel Sweetwater-Doral will open, offering rooms ...
The palm court of the 19th century was reinvented by John Portman who created an influential design of grand atrium for the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in 1967. [13]Contemporary hotel design can be sophisticated and functional, involving specialist architects and designers, [14] environmental and structural engineers, interior designers and skilled contractors and suppliers, particularly for large ...
A floor plan with a modern vestibule shown in red. A vestibule (also anteroom, antechamber, air-lock entry or foyer) is a small room leading into a larger space [1] such as a lobby, entrance hall, or passage, for the purpose of waiting, withholding the larger space from view, reducing heat loss, providing storage space for outdoor clothing, etc.
Lobby of a contemporary apartment building in Washington, D.C.. A lobby is a room in a building used for entry from the outside. [1] Sometimes referred to as a foyer, entryway, reception area or entrance hall, [2] it is often a large room or complex of rooms (in a theatre, opera house, concert hall, showroom, cinema, etc.) adjacent to the auditorium.
Capsules in Tokyo Capsule hotel in Warsaw, Poland.The lockers are on the left of the image, while the sleeping capsules are on the right. A capsule hotel (Japanese: カプセルホテル, romanized: kapuseru hoteru), also known in the Western world as a pod hotel, [1] is a type of hotel developed in Japan that features many small, bed-sized rooms known as capsules.
The term "boutique hotel" was coined by Steve Rubell, who compared Morgans Hotel to a boutique as opposed to a department store, to which chain hotels were compared. [4] The hotelier Ian Schrager and the interior designer Andrée Putman are credited with opening the first boutique hotel, still known as the Morgans Hotel .
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