Guests at this hotel in Mexico City, designed by local architect Regina Galvanduqu, can bathe in rooftop jacuzzis, drink tea on tatami mats or find zen in its courtyard garden.
Galvanduqu, who runs GLVDK Studio, designed the Ryo Kan hotel for slender plot on Rio Panuco in the city's Cuauhtémoc neighbourhood.

The surrounding area has become known as Little Tokyo, making it particularly apt for the hotel, which is intended as a fusion of "Japanese and Mexican identity and values".
The hotel is named after "ryokan" ? a traditional Japanese inn ? and follows the country's hospitality approach as Omotenashi.

As a result, many features of Galvanduqu's design take cues from Japanese culture, liked the striated white facade of the building based on origami paper folds. Accommodation is arranged around a slender courtyard outfitted like a Japanese garden. A glazed roof tops the space to provide plenty of natural light to stone benches and tables, where guests can enjoy breakfast, read or spend time working.

A small pool of water is positioned in front of an adjoining glazed kitchen, where Ryo Kan employees prepare food and drinks. Japanese tea is available on request throughout the day.
Monochrome terrazzo that covers nearly all of the kitchen is one of the materials that Galvanduqu sourced from Mexico, and peppered throughout the hotel.

Others include a gauze made of bejuco vine, which fronts the wooden bookshelves of the sunken library at the rear of the ...