Architects and designers working across the Americas are now invited to submit their entries to the 2020 edition of the AHEAD Awards.
Championing standout hospitality projects from around the world, the AHEAD Awards focuses on four different regions: the Americas, Asia, Middle East and Africa (MEA) and Europe.
The 2020 AHEAD Americas competition will review projects that have opened, reopened or launched in the continent between November 2018 and December 2019.
The Siren Hotel was named as Hotel of the Year at the 2019 AHEAD Americas
Submissions will be arranged into 15 categories: Bar, Club or Lounge; Event Spaces; Guestrooms; Hotel Conversion; Hotel New Build; Hotel Renovation & Restoration; Landscaping & Outdoor Spaces; Lobby & Public Spaces; Lodges & Tented Camps; Resort Hotel; Restaurant; Spa & Wellness; Suite; Transport and Visual Identity. The judging panel praised the Detroit hotel for preserving original features
Projects will then be scrutinised by a panel of industry experts that the AHEAD team feels represents the "wide spectrum of disciplines involved in delivering new hotels".
Judges last year included Studio Tack's creative director, Jou-Yie Chou, managing partner of Yabu Pushelberg, Johnathan Garrison, and partner of Rockwell Group, Greg Keffer.
Los Angeles' Gold-Diggers hotel ? which has its own music studio ? was also a 2019 winner
Winners will be announced at a June 2020 ceremony at the OMA-designed Faena Forum in Miami.

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