Ice Hotels
The year the ice came late
Two seasons in the last decade opened weeks behind schedule, and the planning advice that follows from that is not the advice most guides give.
Field notes
Longer pieces
Six notes on the things that did not fit inside an entry: seasons, conversions, materials, and the editorial rules that keep this list short.
Art Hotels
What a conversion keeps
A brewery office, a film company head office and a corner pub. Three Sydney buildings that were given a second job, and what survived each translation.
Capsule Hotels
The arithmetic of a capsule
Why the format works in central Sydney and nowhere else in the country, written out in floor area rather than in opinion.
Casino Hotels
Expo buildings that lived
World fairs leave behind structures with no purpose. A small number found one, and one of them is in this guide.
Ice Hotels
Short spans, thick walls
Snow and ice are structural materials with strong opinions. What they will carry, and what they refuse, explains every plan in the ice chapter.
How This Works
Nineteen and no further
The editorial rule that keeps this guide small, and the three properties we removed rather than let the list grow.