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Rosewood Hotels & Resorts is continuing its strategic global growth plan and will open its first property in Venice, Italy, in 2025. Rosewood announced it ... More

Claesson Koivisto Rune Architects have converted a former 1920s bank building in Tokyo into what they describe as a "micro-complex of creative eateries, bars, gathering ... More

Rockwell Group have unveiled designs for luxury hospitality and wellness amenities at Manhattan's 550 Madison office tower, which is currently being renovated by co-owners Olayan ... More

Chybik + Kristof have created a wine bar and tasting room in a converted 19th-century brewery and its adjacent 1970s technical space by employing two ... More

Mirbeau will open a new inn with a 12,000sq ft spa in Rhinebeck, New York this fall. Based on the Mirbeau philosophy of balancing life ... More

The world’s first and only revolving glass floor is now suspended and spinning at Seattle's Space Needle, providing unmatched views of the city below. In ... More

Italian chef Carlo Cracco has unveiled his newest culinary enterprise in Milan – the restoration of Italian architect Giuseppe Mengoni’s 19th century Galleria. The landmark building, ... More

Virgin Active has launched its latest full-service Collection club in the re-generated Silo District in Cape Town, South Africa. Located on the city’s V&A Waterfront ... More

French skincare brand Caudalie has opened a three-storey flagship boutique and spa in Seoul, South Korea, complete with an in-house wine bar. Inspired by the ... More

The Bavarian American Hotel – a landmark Cold War building which once housed judges and prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals – ... More

French artist and interior designer Emilie Bonaventure has drawn on her experience as a set designer to create an adaptable new restaurant in London’s Covent ... More

A former fortress and concentration camp on an island in Montenegro is set to be turned into a luxury resort and spa after a controversial ... More

A glass-bottomed swimming pool connecting two matching skyscrapers has been named the winner of an ideas competition called Sky Pool Paris. The design, named Skyframe, ... More

Improvements to clubhouses, a focus on coaching and investment in artificial pitches have been highlighted as ways to improve and maintain adolescent participation in rugby. ... More

A six-year, US$34m (€32m, £22.5m) renovation of the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) has been completed, with a grand reopening of the institute having taken place ... More

An Azerbaijani steakhouse inspired by the myths and legends of fire has opened in Baku’s JW Marriott Absheron. The Fireworks Urban Kitchen is the creation ... More

Robin Snell and Partners is to transform the largest theatre in London’s West End as part of a £1.2m ($1.77m, €1.65m) renovation project. The company ... More

London’s Gherkin skyscraper has been bought by Brazilian billionaire Joseph Safra for a fee of £700m. The Foster & Parners-designed building, first opened in 2004 ... More

St. Regis Hotels & Resorts, part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, has launched The St. Regis Chengdu in the capital of the Chinese province ... More

Global airline alliance SkyTeam's Exclusive Lounge, which opened in 2009 at London Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 4, is offering a two-month yoga pilot project to customers ... More

Mirbeau will be adding its second location with the opening of its new Inn & Spa at Pinehills, New England, US in 2014. The Mirbeau ... More

Kempinski Hotel Yixing in China is now fully operational following a soft opening in January 2013. It is the first international five-star hotel in the ... More

The Elysium Group has announced plans for a new £5m boutique hotel, bar and restaurant to be built in the centre of Colchester. The hotel ... More

A new Touche Spa has opened at the Beyond Resort by Sula in Nashik - India's largest grape-growing region. The spa features three treatment rooms ... More

The 240m euro (£199.6m, UD$321m) M/S Viking Grace cruise ship has taken its maiden journey on the Turku-Stockholm route, between Sweden and Finland. The 218m-long ... More