Common Areas

A cloakroom is sized on garments, not on covers: you need one linear metre of rail for every 18 hanging […]

A luggage store that copes with the peak of a changeover day takes up between 0.25 and 0.35 m² per

A hotel breakfast room is sized on 1.2-1.6 sqm per cover for table service and 1.6-2 sqm per cover when

The hall is the hotel’s entrance area, the lobby is the seating and waiting zone within it, and reception is

A hotel reception desk works on two levels: the operator worktop sits between 72 and 75 centimetres from the floor,

Real or artificial? The question always comes phrased this way, and the answer depends on a figure the hotelier holds

There’s one constraint that governs a play area above everything else, and it matches the actual conditions of use: children

Three common beliefs about reading rooms waste the same investment in the same way, and all three fall apart once

The real question comes before any talk of desks: will someone actually pay to sit there? Answering straight away would

The first thing you need isn’t a catalogue: it’s the slab’s load capacity in kg/sqm, certified by a structural engineer.

A hotel gym that works starts at 25-30 sqm of usable space and rises to 40-60 sqm in properties with

One sunbed for every 1-1.5 beds, 4 to 6 sqm per sunbed including walkways, 120-150 cm of clear walking space

In the guest-room corridor, there’s one measurement that decides everything else, and it isn’t an aesthetic one: the clear width

Furnishing a hotel spa means making a dozen binary decisions, almost all between an option that costs less today and

The design benchmarks for a lobby sit between 300 and 500 lux on the reception desk’s working surface, 150-200 lux

The lobby is the one space in the hotel every single guest passes through. Not everyone eats at the in-house

A hotel restaurant isn’t a restaurant. Or rather: it shares tables, chairs, lighting and a kitchen with a traditional restaurant.

A hotel bar isn’t just a bar. It’s the one space in the property that stays with guests from the