OPPOSITE HOUSE
For years, the Sanlitun neighborhood in east Beijing was a chaotic strip of bars and an open-air market. Now, it has been redeveloped by Hong Kong-based Swire Group with shopping malls, restaurants and a high-end hotel, the Opposite House. Designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, the hotel from outside seems to be wrapped in green glass; on closer inspection, it echoes the geometric pattern on rice-paper windows in old Chinese homes. Inside is an atrium draped with metal mesh and a wall covered in clear plastic cubbyholes -- a modern take on a Chinese medicine chest. Basement restaurants, nearing completion, overlook a stainless-steel swimming pool. Nearby is a converted factory called 1949 -- The Hidden City, now a quiet courtyard oasis.
HOTEL KAPOK
This hotel, near the Forbidden City's western gate, is a modest work from Mr. Zhu, the architect better known for his Digital Beijing building. Hotel Kapok is a refurbished office building wrapped in metal lattice; the facade's blurring effect has given rise to the nickname 'the Blur Hotel.' Mr. Zhu is also at work on a branch of the Guggenheim Museum for Beijing; his plans call for a steel- and glass-clad building that is nearly invisible.
THE EMPEROR
The exterior of this hotel blends in with the gray facades of the hutongs near the Forbidden City. The space-age interior was designed by the Los Angeles-based architectural studio Graft. Modular sofas in grey, orange and lime-green zigzag down the hallways, evoking pleasant versions of 'A Clockwork Orange.' Rooms, each named for an emperor, feature a bathtub by the bed. A rooftop bar overlooks the ancient grandeur of emporers' private quarters.
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