Dezeen promotion: a guest villa in rural Mallorca and a log-clad hotel near the Arctic circle are some of the hospitality projects to be shortlisted in this year's AHEAD Europe awards.
The AHEAD Europe awards celebrate outstanding hospitality projects that have launched, opened or reopened across the continent between June 2019 and May of this year.
Top image: The exterior of The Standard in London, which is on the awards shortlist. Above: one of The Standard's colourful guest rooms
Submissions were first arranged into 15 categories, which recognise everything from a project's guest rooms to its lobby and public spaces.
A shortlist was then put together by a judging panel made up of hotel industry experts. As well as assessing a project's aesthetic appeal, they also consider factors like use of budget, how well it has met the client brief and whether it captures the "theatre of hotel life". Among the panel this year is Signe Bindslev Heniksen, co-founder of studio Space Copenhagen, and Ana Ortega-Miranda, director of interior design for Marriott International.
A freezing river surrounds Arctic Bath, another one of the projects on the awards shortlist
One of the projects to have made it to the shortlist is The Standard in London, which occupies a brutalist building opposite one of the city's major train stations, King's Cross.
Guest rooms and communal areas throughout the hotel are decked out with bold colours like cherry red and cobalt blue, playfully contrasting ...