23 min

Airport Hotels: Designs That Defy Stereotype, from Amsterdam to Toronto Travel by Design

    • Design

What can a designer do to re-invent the forgettable trappings of a hotel that’s always been treated — quite literally — as a layover?

Hamish learns how airport hotels are being overhauled to deliver a travel experience that shakes up decades of design inertia, by chatting with Colin Finnegan and Lauren Holmes — who played crucial roles in overhauling the interiors at the Sheraton Amsterdam Airport Hotel and Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Toronto, respectively.

What can a designer do to re-invent the forgettable trappings of a hotel that’s always been treated — quite literally — as a layover?

Hamish learns how airport hotels are being overhauled to deliver a travel experience that shakes up decades of design inertia, by chatting with Colin Finnegan and Lauren Holmes — who played crucial roles in overhauling the interiors at the Sheraton Amsterdam Airport Hotel and Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Toronto, respectively.

23 min