The hotels below look like a few other buildings in the world. However, the designers of these rooms have not only triggered for visual spectacles. At every place below, architecture and design not only support the experience, but also the experience, but also the experience, but also the experience Are The experience.
In a brilliant design, guests can apparently disappear into the waters over the coral reefs that they can explore. In another case, innovative construction creates a variety of outdoor spaces up and cool above the desert floor. In a third place, hotel buildings cannot be distinguished from the museum that the island environment gives up – and guests sleep in a living gallery.
The Michelin Guide Inspectors selected the five hotels as nominated for the first Michelin Architecture & Design Award. On October 8, the Michelin leader celebrates the success of one and at the same time announces the best hotels in the world for this year: the 2025 Michelin Keys.


Who stays here: Ultra Luxus travelers are looking for a spectacle in one of the most extravagant goals in the world.
This addition to Dubai's constantly developed skyline is not a challenge for conventional hotel design – and for skyscrapers as a genre – only for aesthetics. The avant -garde silhouette of Atlantis The king consists of six interconnected towers, each consisting of terraced, self -supporting blocks with their own rooms and amenities. The constantly interlocking design looks fantastic and futuristic; It also creates a variety of naturally ventilated, shady outdoor spaces for hotel guests. The result is a building that feels less like a hotel than its own indoor/outdoor and garden district.
Guest rooms are referred to as cloud landscapes and sea rescue companies, and inside, elegant interiors revolve around water features – an allusion to the history of the region, in which the search for water often defined daily life. Via the many individual building blocks of the hotel you will find 795 guest rooms and suites, 15 restaurants and a dramatic skybridge that connects the surfaces of the building.
Define features:
- The 11.5-meter lobby sculpture of stainless steel “droplets”, supplemented by private wells in suites and cascade pools throughout the public rooms of the hotel.
- Geometric patterns, complicated glass windows and immersive lighting systems that reflect the professional craftsmanship.
- Innovative technologies, such as LED screens, which form 7,200 marine animals around the three aquariums of the hotel.
- A 90-meter infinity pool on the 22nd floor, which offers a comprehensive view of your palm and Golf.
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Who stays here: adventurous couples and families who want to break the shape with an intimate, environmentally conscious experience over the flawless coral reefs of Saudi Arabia.
The Shebara Resort of the Red Sea, an ambitious effort for the development of the western coast of Saudi Arabia, is the country's answer to the over water villas of the Maldives. Travelers come to diving and snorkeling among lively coral reefs, and the unmistakably radical architecture of the resort reflects their mission: celebrating and preserving the fragile marine environment. The 73 villas that resemble shimmering pearls were built outside the location and almost completely transported here to minimize the disorder. 38 villas sit directly over the water itself, supported by narrow columns that are supposed to disturb as little from the sea floor as possible. Your stainless steel panels shimmer in the sun and carry the reflection of the water as camouflage.
The villas are completely self -contained and are deliberately distributed for optimal privacy. And the advanced technology of the resort of its own massive solar park, desalination and reverse osmosis system as well as the fully electric transportation brought it to a Leed Platin rating. In every “pearl”, elegant interiors feel as light as the villas themselves, equipped with polished steel and tailor -made furniture.
Define features:
- Two types of villas: overwater and country, each equipped with amenities, including Infinity pools, double daily beds, outdoor shower and sunken lounges.
- Five specialist opportunities for marine views, including indoor omakase, a family grill on the beach, a homemade pasta laboratory and a pool bar only for adults.
- A spa indoors and outdoors with hammam, a yoga pavilion, tennis and paddle dishes and several outdoor pools.
- Feeded snorkeling and diving tours through the extensive coral reef network, including nightly bioluminescent experiences.


Who stays here: Urbanites and families looking for an opulent mix of Brazilian tradition and a design -thinking design, only a few minutes' walk from São Paulo's legendary boulevard.
From the cidade development of Matarazzo-Einst A complex of the cultural heritage of the 20th century and today a lively mixed lifestyle center is a bold, 93-meter-,-22-story vertical garden tower. The indigenous design of the Rosewood Tower is wrapped with over 10,000 growing trees and dressed with over 10,000 growing trees, which are native to the Mata Atlântica Rainwald, and deals with the reintroduction of the urban environmental challenges by reintroducing the local flora into the metropolitan landscape. Near a renovated delivery station are the two buildings 160 guest rooms and over 100 local suites, two pools and six restaurants.
Rooms and public spaces retain the characteristic philosophy of the “sense of place” and at the same time remind of the rich past and sustainable future of Brazil. They have 100% local materials: wood, marble, custom -made furniture and an art collection of 450 original works of 57 Brazilian artists.
Define features:
- A striking, hand-drawn mural that reproduces an abstract night sky that exceeded the jazz bar of the 1930s from the 1930s-a performance that required 68 design hours.
- An infinity pool on the roof with Skyline view and a pool lined with mosaic on the floor for families that were hugged by tropical green.
- Stand -modern spa and fitness center, including a health chamber with mirrors and shelves with over 400 Brazilian quartz crystals.
- The chapel of Santa Luzia built in 1922 and a renovated rosette, which was designed by the internationally known Brazilian artist Vik Muniz.
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Whoever stays here: art lovers and couples long for a peaceful retreat on the coast with private access to an extraordinary collection of modern art and contemporary design.
The revolutionary design concept behind Besse House was founded in 1992 by Tadao Ando, Pritzker award winner and the most famous Japanese architects. Together gallery rooms and guest quarters to create an unprecedented museum shotel hybrid-on Naoshima, one of several islands in the Japan Inlandsee, four wings with different architectural properties, attractions and guest rooms. The minimalist concrete form of the “museum” is partly embedded in the coastal landscape. “Oval” has an open-air reflective pool that circles from a sun-drenched portico; “Park” – among the rare Ando buildings here to integrate wood – blur the border between inside and outside; And “beach” with visual lines that are aligned with the surface of the sea creates the impression of a floating structure.
Each of the 65 guest rooms, which are spread between minimalism and geometric simplicity between the buildings, is spacious and defined by elements such as reserved furniture and room-high windows, the deliberately view of the sea, gardens and the distant Shikoku mountains frame.
Define features:
- Invisory layouts that inspire visits to galleries and installations of artists such as David Hockney, James Turrell, Yayoi Kusama and Andy Warhol after business hours.
- Sculpture parks along the coast and in a nearby forest that forms a living museum harmonizes indoor and outdoor area.
- Restaurants and spa facilities that are in glass, with light and water view, including a herbal medicine pool outdoors in front of the sea.
- Six exclusive rooms in the oval: sitting on a hill and accessible from a private monorail over the sea.
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Who stays here: couples or solo travelers who appreciate privacy, wellness, nature and culinary adventures in a target of the European island under the radar.
The Eco Luxury accommodation from Villa Nai 3.3 were carved directly into the hill. The excavated stone was then used under the primary materials of the building, an innovative selection of emissions. Embedded under a 40,000 square meter olive grove, from which an award-winning olive oil is cultivated, inspired traditional Dalmatian building methods inspired the wavy design of the hotel, especially the walls of dry stone-one technology, in which stone is carefully stacked without mortar to create organically shaped terraces and walls. The result is an almost non -detectable fusion of buildings and the environment, which is almost invisible in the rough topography of the island and encourages guests to disappear in the natural environment.
The interior of the building is as elegant as its outdoor colleagues: Each of its eight guest rooms is improved with natural materials – Italian marble, wooden surfaces and subdued colors that complement the sustainable ethos of the hotel.
Define features:
- Five Deluxe rooms and three suites with a combination of skylights, independent tubs and private terraces, which extend living space in their geographical environment.
- The 1.6-meter lobby measuring value swords from GoriorTetti.
- A restaurant on site that highlights the award -winning olive oil of the property both by its dishes and in the glass wall, which frames the landscape.
- A responsible water system that is installed in the entire property and contributes to cleaned, desperate water in bathrooms, a salt water lap pool and recycled rainwater irrigation.
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Hero Image: Shebara Resort on Saudi -Arabia's Red Meer, disguised by the shimmering reflections of the water.