Seventeen hotels, and the part of each you can walk into.

Most hotels have a part that belongs to everyone and a part that does not. A bar with its own door to the street, a restaurant, a garden, a hall of carved snow that people walk through in the afternoon, a lounge that any passenger with a boarding pass can reach. Behind that part sit the rooms, the corridors and the lifts. This site looks at one thing only: where that boundary falls in seventeen hotels, how it is crossed, and what the crossing does to the building.
sleep 'n fly Dubai Airport Terminal 3
One stands in a public terminal hall; the other sits past security, reachable only by passengers.
One borrows an airport lounge for its front; the other has a restaurant door onto a street.
One opens onto island parkland; the other spreads halls and a golf course across flat ground.
One stacks its public gallery below the rooms; the other sets its concert hall alongside them.
A castle rebuilt in the same place each winter, walked through by day.
One works to the rhythm of a mountain restaurant; the other to the rhythm of the pistes.
One opens as a village pub; the other as a set of rooms the city books by name.
Palacio Duhau – Park Hyatt Buenos Aires
One puts its open part in a garden between wings; the other puts it at street level.
One built a glass room for the neighbourhood; the other inherited a lobby people already visit.
The rule behind every entry, and the things this site refuses to print, are set out in What Is Open To Everyone.
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