Six notes
Notes
Longer pieces that do not fit inside a pair: buildings, seasons, and the limits of comparing two things at a time.
Lead note, 12 March 2026.
Method · 12 March 2026 · 17 min
What a pair cannot show you
A comparison holds two things still so you can look at them. It also hides everything the two hotels have in common, and that shared ground is often the reason a trip works or does not.
Art Hotels · 4 February 2026 · 12 min
The pool that stayed
Berlin closed dozens of public bath houses in the last century. One of them now has guests upstairs and water still in the hall, which is rarer than it sounds.
Ice Hotels · 19 January 2026 · 8 min
Six buildings that will not exist in June
Every hotel in our ice section has a fixed end date written into its material. We looked at what that does to the way they are designed, and to the people who build them.
Method · 8 December 2025 · 8 min
Why we stopped counting rooms
Room numbers, star counts and floor areas look like facts and behave like advertising. Here is what we use instead when two hotels need to be set side by side.
Casino Hotels · 21 November 2025 · 12 min
Expo 67, fifty-nine winters on
A world exposition leaves buildings behind that nobody planned a second life for. On one Montréal island, two of those pavilions are still in daily use.
Capsule Hotels · 3 October 2025 · 8 min
Two beds in Munich
A small room in a city centre and a capsule in a field answer the same question in opposite directions. Germany has very few examples of either, and that shortage is the story.