With ever-increasing numbers of travel-savvy customers has come the need for hotels to upgrade their concept of what makes for a comfortable stay. The many innovative designs found in these pages are destined to redefine the concept of what a hotel should be - from a design perspective as well as using criteria of comfort for customers. Thorough documentation is provided in the form of floor plans, the architects' own sketches and notes, and gorgeous, full-color photographs.

• United Designers. Metropolitan Hotel
• Eric Raffy. Bras Hotel
• Tadao Ando Architect & Associates Hotel al Naoshima Contemporary Art Complex
• Werner Weitz. BIeibtreu Hotel
• Baumschlager & Eberle. Hotel Martinspark
• Geoffrey Bawa. Hotel Kandalama
• William Sofield. Hotel Soho Grand
• Rave Architects. Art Otel Postdam
• Neururer & Neururer. Hotel Klinglhuber
• Paul Andreu & Agence Martinet / Group Ecart. Hotel Sheraton Roissy
• lfsits,Ganahl& Larch Architects. Hotel Domino Suites
• Anouska Hempel. The Hempel
• Eduardo Souto de Moura & Humberto Vieria. Pousada Santa Maria do Bouro
• Peter Lorenz & Terence Conran. Hotel Das Triest
• Cesar Buiz-Larrea, Enrique Alvarez-Sala & Carlos Bubio Carvajal. Hotel La Posada de Babel
• Patrick Derderian. Hotel Square
• Joaquin Diez-Cascon. Hotel Turo de Vilana
• Michael Graves. The Miramar Hotel
• Toyo Ito. Hotel Poluinya Shari-gun
• German del Sol & Jose Cruz. Hotel Explora in Patagonia
• Mathias Klotz & Felipe Assadi. Hotel Terrantai
• Denton Corker Marshall. Adelphi Hotel
• Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama. D - Hotel
• Kerry Hill. II Serai