NASHVILLE, Tennessee — The creative process for designing a hotel and the spaces inside draws on a wide variety of factors to balance the wants and needs of both guests and hoteliers.
Business Immo brings you a selection of the most remarkable stories from the first half of 2025. Immerse yourself in hotel, office, logistics and shopping center projects that stand out for their bold architecture and/or the new uses they introduce.
Business Immo presents the most noteworthy deliveries of the1st half of 2025, in terms of their architecture and/or the new uses they offer. Hotels, offices and residential units were all on the agenda.
Following the opening of Tribe Paris Clichy to coincide with the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, the Galia Group continues its collaboration with the Accor Group brand, signing a new 4-star address on the outskirts of Paris. Located at 70 avenue du Général-Leclerc in Pantin - an address the group has owned since October 2017 - the Tribe Paris Pantin takes the place of a former parking lot dating back to the 1950s.
Among the skills required of hotel designers and architects, there's a budding trait that is becoming increasingly necessary and forces them to tap into a practice outside of their standard curriculum: proficiency with psychology.
A steady number of new hotels opened in the U.S. in the first half of 2025, including the largest hotel opening in California in 33 years and three new hotels near Universal Orlando Resort in Florida.
Not all hotel pools are created equal. From gorgeous views to interesting design elements, some pools stand out with their various cool factors, and temperature has nothing to do with it.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Africa’s population is set to boom between now and 2075, but if the continent’s hotel and room supply is to mirror that growth, hoteliers should probably think resorts, not urban hotels.
NEW YORK — In a world with increasing environmental threats such as hurricanes and wildfires, the hotel and real estate industries must make changes to their building and design processes.
NEW YORK — Marriott International's Noah Silverman believes that 2025, so far, is best described as a "story of two quarters" when it comes to investor sentiment in hotels.
Hardel Le Bihan Architectes and Coffim have delivered the Hotel Lyf (Ascott), at 4 rue de la Cour-des-Noues, in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. The building, which boasts 139 rooms, coworking facilities, a restaurant and a fitness area, is the result of the conversion of a former printing works in the Gambetta district.
It's a time that people under 20 couldn't have known... A time when commerce was seen as an investor's martingale, a sector with buoyant fundamentals that could confidently deploy large-scale volumes. Then one exogenous shock after another began to reveal a giant with feet of clay. First came the Internet revolution, which completely redefined consumer habits and plunged physical retailing into a profound identity crisis. Then there was the health crisis, which forced retailers to close their doors for long periods, and the ensuing surge in inflation and rising interest rates, which called into question their valuations.
The Calq agency was founded in 1990 with the aim of building its own projects. Along the way, it began to specialize in the renovation of existing buildings, with a dual project culture: architect and project manager. Explanations.
On the initiative of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, creator and organizer of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, a 4-star hotel will be built on the edge of the famous racetrack by 2027.
An over 100-year-old hotel referred to as the “Queen of the Gulf” has never had more of its original splendor than now thanks to its current ownership — so much so that it had Hollywood calling.
Taking the pulse of the real estate market from the people who make it happen, be they investors, bankers, brokers, operators, developers and other users, French of course, but also international: that was the objective of Business Immo 's editorial team for a week in Cannes, on the occasion of Mipim 2025.
