Hotel news
Sweett Group wins Shard fit-out job
Consultant will oversee administration, planning and quality monitoring of luxury hotel fit-out at top of tower
Eco hotel planned near Bangalore unveiled
Architect Mohsin Cooper and engineer Hurleypalmerflatt behind 9,450m2 scheme
Berkeley buys up 52-storey Beetham tower site
Housebuilder poaches site of Ian Simpson-designed scheme from administrator
BuildingTV: Europe's tallest living wall springs into life
Bennett’s Associates use 180,000 plants to create 11th-storey green wall at the Mint Hotel in London
Bulgari reveals plans for luxury London hotel
Squire & Partners are designing the luxury brand’s five-star Knightsbridge hotel
Sisk wins £40m Park Lane deal
Developer to re-start work on luxury apartments after cash injection from Lloyds TSB
Premier Inn plans to double London hotel estate
Hotel operator aims to add 47 properties with new buildings or converting existing ones
Buro Happold hotel in Georgia opens
Former structure was fully gutted and rebuilt, and now includes 249 rooms, restaurants, bars, a conference centre and spa
Aukett + Heese to design 464-room Berlin hotel
German arm of Aukett Fitzroy Robinson wins contract for scheme, which is part of wider mixed-use development
Plans submitted for Greenwich hotel
450-bed hotel by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands will include a triple-height pavilion adjacent to O2 arena
Gulf has hotels worth $7bn under construction
Research by Proleads shows most hotel development, totalling $4.4bn, is in UAE
Dubai opens world's tallest hotel
The 333m-high hotel by Rotana is set to be overtaken later in the year by a hotels in Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia
Stalled Foster hotel close to sale
Foster + Partners troubled Silken hotel in London is expected to be sold before Christmas, according to sources close to the situation
Stalled Foster hotel to restart
Construction work on the stalled Silken hotel in London, designed by Foster + Partners, is expected to restart in January after bank BBVA decided to develop the scheme rather than sell it
Tender of the day: £5m Islington hotel
Tender close is 7 December for general contract for 96-bedroom scheme in north London
437 hotels in pipeline in Middle East and North Africa
Hotel building spree will bring 120,682 new rooms to the market, with the UAE in the lead
Rotating hotel planned for Croatian coast
Hotel will rotate 1.3 times a day within an infinity edged swimming lake
Couple plan £90m hotel on derelict Soho site
Husband and wife team to develop London boutique hotel and housing on site left untouched since the Blitz
Kennedy Twaddle wins planning for New Cross hotel
Architect Kennedy Twaddle has been granted planning permission for this 60-bedroom hotel next to Goldsmiths college In New Cross, south-east London
Presidential scandal fails to draw bids for Watergate hotel
Notorious site of party headquarters break-in that led to Richard Nixon's 1970s downfall is a flop at auction
Alsop’s £250m Blackfriars hotel in for planning
28,000m² development would replace conference and event centre
Bin Laden to build two hotels in Mecca
Saudi contractor teams up with Fairmont Raffles to exploit kingdom's growing tourism industry
Cundall vs Global Grange: Payment dispute on luxury hotel
Consultant Cundall is suing a hotel group for failing to pay it for its work on a luxury hotel near St Paul's cathedral in London.
Floating hotel to open in Hartlepool
Premier Inn plans 54-bed hotel to float in Hartlepool docklands
Dubai hotel offers sacked workers free meal
Arabian Park Hotel offers free meal to anyone with proof of redundancy
New leaf: Richard Murphy Architects' Edinburgh hotel
Construction is shortly to begin on a five-star hotel in central Edinburgh designed by Richard Murphy Architects
Hotels embrace water-saving technology
Three hotels champion water-wise scheme by using eco efficient 4.5 litre ES4 WCs
Premier Inn secures agreements on eight sites
Whitbread-owned hotel operator adds 637 rooms to pipeline
Birmingham's Cube by Make: Square deal
The £100m Cube in Birmingham has moved closer to completion with the installation of 20,000 panels to form a metallic facade
Four Seasons to build hotel in Abu Dhabi
Mubadala joins forces with Four Seasons Hotels to develop 200-room hotel on Sowwah Island
Stacking up nicely: WAM's Architecten's Inntel hotel
The £13m, 12-storey Inntel hotel in the Dutch town of Zaandam near Amsterdam is nearing completion
Dubai’s ruler offers Victoria Beckham $25m to design hotel
Former Spice Girl could design a hotel in Nakheel’s World islands development
Conference to look at growth of London hotel sector
New London Architecture will explore planning and design of hotel in lead up to Olympics
Stalled Silken hotel bought by main creditor
Subsidiary of bank that put Foster-designed scheme into administration scoops it up after Middle Eastern bidder pulls out
Whitbread plans eco hotel
Whitbread, the owner of the Premier Inn chain, has announced that it will green its entire stock of hotels and build a low carbon hotel
Viñoly's Vdara hotel opens at Las Vegas' CityCenter
Other elements by Foster, Kohn Pedersen Fox, Pelli Clarke Pelli, Daniel Libeskind and Helmut Jahn also to open shortly
Mace drafted in to take on Savoy hotel refurb
Project manager Mace has been drafted in to the £100m refurbishment job at the Savoy hotel amid rumours of further delays and cost overruns on the project
Premier Inn buys land for three hotels
Hotel operator paid £18m for sites in Colchester, Edinburgh Park and Lincoln for three new hotels
Contractors suffer as hotels halt refurbishment plans
Workloads drop 80% as major hotels postpone work on existing rooms to keep them open for guests
Galliford Try wins £82.8m of hotel and housing contracts
Contractor to build three hotels in Surrey, Berkshire and Oxfordshire as well as student flats in London
Part-built Foster hotel on Strand goes into receivership
PricewaterhouseCoopers appointed receiver on controversial £25m, 11-storey development in central London
Mace bags £80m hotel deal
Mace has beaten ISG and Sisk to clinch the estimated £80m construction management contract to turn London’s Cafe Royal into a 160-room five-star hotel
Kier set to lose £6m on hotel in Liverpool One scheme
£60m Hilton hotel scheme on £1bn development to open six months after March deadline
Grand Prix hotel on track: Aldar's Yas Hotel
Part of the £27bn Yas Island development in Abu Dhabi, is on course to open in September
Dubai hotel trade plunges 25% in December
Impact of downturn revealed as hotel rooms slump during November and December
Dubai firm plans 30-storey hotel scheme in Manila
Kingdom Hotel Investments' £71m scheme will start on site in Philippines soon
Kier hotel scheme hit by three-month delay
A Hilton hotel project on Grosvenor Estates’ £1bn Paradise Street scheme in Liverpool is understood to be running up to three months behind schedule, writes Sarah Richardson.
Jumeirah to develop hotel in Macau
Dubai hotel group signs deal for new Cotai development
£1m hotel extension
Leisure contractor Multibuild has won a £1m contract to build a hotel extension in Merseyside
