Dezeen promotion: a nine-suite boutique hotel housed within a 158-year-old aristocratic palazzo and a disused wine factory-turned-luxury resort are some of the projects to be shortlisted in the 2019 AHEAD Europe awards.
This year's edition of the AHEAD Europe awards celebrates outstanding hospitality projects completed in the region between June 2018 and May 2019.
All projects have been organised into 15 categories, which recognise everything from event spaces and hotel conversions to lodges, cabins and tented camps.
The Dexamenes Seaside Hotel has been shortlisted for the AHEAD Europe awards
The shortlist has been compiled by an expert panel of architects, interior designers, hoteliers and industry commentators.
This includes Javier Hortal, director of technical services at Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Geraldine Dohogne, architectural and interior design director at Zannier Hotels, and Patricia Holler, senior interior design director at Marriott International. Mollie's Motel and Diner is also on the shortlist
One of the shortlisted projects is the Dexamenes Seaside Hotel, which takes over an abandoned 1920s wine factory. Its pared-back guest suites are set inside the building's former storage tanks and look directly out over a stretch of sand on Greece's Peloponnese coast.

Another project on the shortlist is Mollie's Motel and Diner. The roadside hotel in Oxfordshire, England has been designed with unexpectedly luxurious bedrooms and communal areas dressed with plush f...