Ice Hotels · Meltaus, Finland
Beana Laponia
The surroundings are the point here, which is exactly what a low grey sky takes away.
A reader on bad days indoors
Eighteen hotels, and what each of them does when the weather turns.
No forecasts, no seasons to recommend, no promises about the sky. Just one day in the life of a house: where it moves the hours, which part quietly closes, and what the building itself does about it.
- Hotels
- 18
- Collections
- 4
- Questions each
- 4
Four collections
The same four questions asked of very different buildings.
4 hotels
Ice Hotels
Northern houses where a poor day is mostly a dark one.
6 hotelsArt Hotels
Hotels where the building itself is part of the reason people came.
4 hotelsCasino Hotels
Four Canadian resorts, read through covered links and interior streets.
4 hotelsCapsule Hotels
Hotels that occupy floors of larger buildings, and borrow their shelter.
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Hotel Emma
The building was raised for beer rather than for guests, and it holds its own temperature.
Casino Hotels · Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
River Rock Casino Resort
A covered walkway runs to the station next door, so the wet part of an arrival is short.
Capsule Hotels · Singapore
The Pod Boutique Capsule Hotel
A shower here changes the last stretch of a walk rather than the shape of the afternoon.
Art Hotels · New York, United States
Nine Orchard
It occupies a bank building restored down to the marble, with a vaulted hall behind the entrance.
Capsule Hotels · Tokyo, Japan
Book and Bed Tokyo Ikebukuro
A rainy day suits a hotel built around shelves, where the lounge is where everyone reads.
Every entry answers the same four things
In the same order, for all eighteen hotels.
- 1
When the weather turns
- 2
Where everyone goes
- 3
What stops working
- 4
What the building does
Confirm anything that matters with the hotel
Descriptions here are assembled from public sources and public sources age. Which parts of a house are working on a given day rests with the hotel and the conditions of that day.