Ace Hotel Kyoto: A Field Review of the Kengo Kuma Conversion
213 rooms in a 1926 telephone-exchange building reworked by Kengo Kuma, on Karasuma. Three nights testing the most ambitious design hotel in central Kyoto.
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The Eliza Jane
8.3 / 10 The Curb Score
Where: New Orleans
196 rooms stitched from seven 19th-century warehouses off Magazine Street, with a French brasserie inside.
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