Top Seven World Hotels
While we have understandable doubts when junketeering journalists, Internet surfers, and random whats-his-names slap together best-of lists, the rundown of the seven best world hotels in last Sunday's Observer intrigued us. For one, it starts with the Hotel Unique in Sao Paolo, which looks oddly like a smile cut out of reinforced cement (considering its amenities, the hotel will probably make you grin) and is known by locals as the "slice of watermelon." The Observer writes:
The roof terrace is the most fashionable space in the city. It has a restaurant serving modern Brazilian cuisine, an ultra-hip bar playing the latest ambient house music and a pool terrace decorated with flourishes of shocking pink.The list also manages to fit in the Grand Hyatt in Shanghai, which, "against a skyline that looks like it's been designed by a hyperactive toddler... stands out as a monument to good taste;" and New York's Four Seasons, where, well, "Everything ... comes in epic proportions, beginning with the 33ft-high entrance hall with its French limestone pillars, marble floors and onyx ceiling." Onyx ceiling? Nice. Should do that in our apartment.
Magnificent seven: icons of modern hotel design [The Observer]
Hotel Unique [Official site]
Grand Hyatt Shanghai [Official site]
Four Seasons [Official site]
Previously: Hotel Fasano, Shanghai Shortlist, EuroCheapo's Guide to NYC Hotels, Sao Paulo Report, 88 Xintiandi Hotel
