Hotel

Hotel Palácio de Tavira, the white neoclassical facade of the former Palácio dos Tavares with stone-framed windows, wrought-iron balconies and a balustraded parapet with urns, beside a tall pine on the square

Hotel Palácio de Tavira

Kimpton Las Mercedes Hotel in Santo Domingo's Ciudad Colonial, a restored two-storey colonial facade on Calle Las Mercedes with a wrought-iron balcony, timber shutters and a stone-framed doorway

Kimpton Las Mercedes Hotel

The Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, McKim, Mead & White's 1907 limestone Renaissance palazzo on Fifth Avenue with pedimented windows, a rusticated base and an arched iron entrance

The Fifth Avenue Hotel

Hôtel de Crillon on Place de la Concorde in Paris, Ange-Jacques Gabriel's long limestone façade with a Corinthian colonnade above arcades, end pediments and flags on the roof under a blue sky

Hôtel de Crillon

Entrance of Bulgari Hotel Roma between travertine pilasters and potted cycads, glass doors under the BVLGARI name opening onto a marble-lined vestibule with the ancient statue of Augustus

Bulgari Hotel Roma

Courtyard of Six Senses Rome in Palazzo Salviati Cesi Mellini, a curved green marble bar with high leather stools on travertine paving beneath an elliptical rust-red steel ring, with palms and the ochre palazzo walls and windows rising behind

Six Senses Rome

Whitehall façade of the Old War Office at dusk, now Raffles London at The OWO, its Edwardian Baroque stone front lit warm gold between twin domed corner towers, with an equestrian statue on a plinth in the foreground under a pink sky

Raffles London at The OWO

Street entrance of Paris Court on Ferenciek tere in Budapest, a tall glazed archway between carved brick piers revealing the golden glass vaults of the restored arcade, with a glass canopy over the Párisi Udvar doors

Paris Court (Párisi Udvar)

Bistro at Hotel Romeo Roma framed by glossy Makassar ebony walls, a sculpted vault of layered ribbed arches receding over dining tables with black chairs beside a pale stone arch

Hotel Romeo Roma