HOTELS & RESTAURANTS, beyond mainstream

The sea is not a view at Mazzarò Sea Palace. It is the project’s organizing principle. Set directly on the water in Taormina’s Mazzarò Bay, the hotel has reopened following a comprehensive redesign by Milan-based architecture and design studio De.Tales. The intervention completes a broader transformation that began with the guestrooms and now extends across the property’s principal public spaces: the lobby, Almarè Bar, Armònia restaurant, the new indoor dining room at signature restaurant Blum, the panoramic Velvet terrace and the private beach. 

The Hudson Valley is entering a new design era. The region’s familiar vocabulary of weathered barns, rustic farmhouses and informal tasting rooms is giving way to a more intentional approach, one in which architecture, interiors, landscape and agricultural production are conceived as a single experience. Across Hudson, Claverack, Hyde Park and Gardiner, four projects reveal how rural hospitality is becoming increasingly sophisticated without losing its connection to place.

For nearly eight decades, the Naples Beach Club has occupied a singular place in the cultural landscape of Florida’s Gulf Coast. Established in 1946 by the Watkins family, it was more than a resort: a beachfront gathering place where residents and visitors came together for dinners, celebrations and long evenings overlooking the water. Its identity was embedded in a series of familiar images – the striped awnings moving in the Gulf breeze, sunsets at the bar and the enduring presence of HB’s on the Gulf.

Rising 690 feet above Boston’s South Station, South Station Tower introduces a new model of urban living in which architecture, hospitality and mobility converge. Designed by Pelli Clarke & Partners and developed by Hines, the 51-story landmark places 166 The Ritz-Carlton Residences across its uppermost 16 floors, transforming one of the city’s primary transit hubs into a vertical ecosystem of living, working and connection

At Charleston’s new waterfront hotel, The Cooper, The Crossing emerges not as a conventional restaurant interior but as a calibrated response to its setting on the Cooper River. Designed by Meyer Davis, the multidisciplinary studio led by Will Meyer and Gray Davis, the project translates Charleston’s marshland geography and maritime culture into a spatial language defined by material nuance, controlled openness, and shifting perspectives on water

In the dense urban fabric of Venice, the Hotel Papadopoli Venezia - MGallery occupies a unique position, both geographically and historically. Situated adjacent to the Papadopoli Gardens and along the Tolentini Canal, the hotel forms part of a rare intersection between natural green space and the city’s characteristic waterways. Its location, within walking distance of key cultural landmarks