THE WHV WORLD
Places where spending the night is part of the discovery.
THE QUESTION WE BRING
OUR FIELD OF VIEW
Each selection begins with a specific subject, a reason to care and evidence worth examining.
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At Santo Estevo in Galicia, a former monastery has become a hotel without making its cloisters irrelevant. The attraction is the conversation between different uses of the same building.
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At Sweden’s ICEHOTEL, the winter rooms are not meant to survive spring. What continues is the ability to make them, and the experience of inhabiting something temporary.
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The Fife Arms in Braemar brings contemporary art into a former Scottish coaching inn. The interesting encounter is not a celebrity guest list, but the possibility of living briefly alongside works rather than filing past them.
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Canfranc’s former international station has another life as a hotel. The interesting luxury is not a star rating, but the possibility of inhabiting an ambitious railway building again.
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Chiiori in Japan’s Iya valley preserves a thatched house through another form of use. A bookable stay makes the relationship between old fabric, modern comfort and continuing care tangible.
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At La Tourette, a former friar’s cell offers a way to encounter Le Corbusier’s architecture at the pace of a stay.
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Astley Castle lets people inhabit a protected ruin because the new architecture makes its losses visible rather than pretending them away.
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Fogo Island Inn turns a remarkable building into a harder question: how much value remains in the place that creates the experience?
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