Hotel Design, Planning, and Development, New Edition

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Perfect !!
I was assigned to teach at the Master Degree class on "Facility Management" subject focusing on Hotel Facility. I have gone through several books regarding hotel design. I think this book is the best of all. Any designer who reads this book back to back will certainly understand the whole concept. It is not only about how to design the hotel as an architecture piece, but the reader will also understand the hospitality business. This book also covers the design and management issues of related topics such as "Restaurant", "Entertainment Venue" in the hotel. It is the 'must have' for all architects who want to design a hotel efficiently. It can also be a good book for anyone who is in the hospitality business and currently in charge of renovating or upgrading the hotel space; or the hotel's representative who need to communicate with architects or interior designer. This book can be the great tool to evaluate the result of the hotel construction project or even to 'correct' it. The tables and formulas for space calculation in this book are easy enough for anyone to understand. This book can be of great use to all building design professionals. It can also be a valuable one for any people who is interested in hotel business.


The Most Outstanding Resource for Hotel Architecture!
The work of the design and the planning of hotel is different from other architectural work; it requires a detailed arrangement of the businesses of hotel. Consequently, the architecture of hotel became one of the hardest work for architects. (another work is the architecture of hospital.) However, this book proposed directives of design for a hotel adapted to the model of businesses. Initially, it explains various types of properties of hotel. In the second place, it shows not only directives of design for equipment but also of the methods of approach of planning for the choice of place and the determination of size. In conclusion, if you read this book, you can early consider the effective system of management of the property of the phase of the design. Among many books on the architecture of hotel, I think that this book is the most exceptional resource.


Good for anyone interested in hospitality design
I am an Interior Design student and found this book very helpful in completing a hospitality design. It provides a breakdown of the areas of the hotel, the different types of hotels, and the type of customers that use them. It really helped me in laying out the floor plan. There are also some awesome color pictures of fabulous hotels in the world. I highly recommend for anyone interested in hospitality design.


Great book!
This a book that be should always be close to you if you work in the hotel development industry.


Comprehensive and beautiful
I found this in the Rizzoli bookstore and had to slit the shrinkwrap to see what the book was like. Then sat down in a soft chair to browse through it but after a half hour decided it made more sense to just buy it and read it at home. Not disappointed. The book covers everything in great detail - lots of text - with pictures of hotels from the Chilean Andes to London and Paris and New York. A "must have" for people interested in travel and hotels and architecture.


Absolutely terrific!!
DEFECT OF THE SOUND REPRODUCTION! I have a copy of the version of the Eighties of Rutes and Penner -- this is a completely new edition, all new photography, etc. -- and the ' bible ' for the design of hotel considers it. But the new edition is twice also large and full with the examples and information currents. It has 32 pages of the splendid photographs of color of large hotels and resources of everywhere in the world. The text is in three principal sections: Types of hotel (the centre town, resources, centers of conference, hotels of luxury, hotels of casino, etc...); Guide design (the information of planning and design for all the sectors of the hotel); and guides development (feasibility, programming, tendencies of future). Moreover, there is a good number of appendices and sidebars of the people such as ian Schrager, of I.M. Pei, poop of Robert, and John Portman. I looked at other books of design of hotel in the stores and there are not something which is so complete or current. There are other books on hotels of shop, with a good number of images, but nothing with this total insurance of all the types of properties housing. With good more than 400 pages, this book will be the new bible for the design of hotel. I cannot imagine a better choice for no matter whom implied of the development of hotel, architecture, or the interior design.



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