Hotels across the Americas are drawing on local history to create memorable guest experiences, say AHEAD Americas awards judges in this video Dezeen produced for the awards programme.
Many of the winners of this year's AHEAD Americas awards, which had its ceremony last week at the Faena Forum in Miami, are urban hotels with interiors that make reference to local history.
Johnathan Garrison, director of design firm Yabu Pushelberg and AHEAD Americas judge, noted that a number of the urban hotels amongst the winners combined historical details with modern design principles.
"They're pulling these ideas from the past and reinventing them for now," he says in the video interview, which Dezeen shot on the judging day of the AHEAD Americas awards. The Siren Hotel in Detroit by ASH NYC was named Hotel of the Year
The Siren Hotel in Detroit, which was named of Hotel of the Year, was commended by judges for evoking the glamour of the Motor City in the early 20th century instead of referencing the popular aesthetics of industry and decay associated with the city's recent past.
Garrison praised New York design studio ASH NYC for its unconventional approach to The Siren's design.
"It really creates this fantasy of what Detroit could be," he said. "It's moving away from the industrial nature of how everybody thinks of Detroit, giving it a romantic point of view."
Judges commended the project for its unconventional representation of Detroit's past
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