Eighteen hotels that
argue with the street
Every building here disagrees with its neighbours about something. This guide takes eighteen hotels and resorts and asks what each one refuses to copy from the buildings around it, and what it takes from them anyway.
Every entry is written the same way. The first block sets out what the building argues with, in form, material, colour or age. The second sets out what it agrees with, because almost every building keeps something from its street: a line, a roof, a stone, a slope. The third describes how the difference is settled on the ground, through a setback, a yard or a base. The method is set out in full on The Disagreement.
Water built where wood normally stands
Snow walls beside glass domes in forest
A yearly building among permanent shore houses
A snow fortress on a working waterfront
Identical berths inside a shophouse frame
One white unit repeated in a controlled city
Sleeping niches cut into book shelving
Bath floors held in dense station-side building
A glass wedge among brick dock buildings
Green house fronts stacked into one block
An oval tower in a right-angled quarter
Oval windows in a square-windowed old centre
Glass wings joined to an 1899 house
A 1928 stone bank among glass offices
Expo pavilions reused on a park island
A large resort along a natural gorge
A resort with moorings on a working river
One large roof in lake and forest country
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