The top 10 hotels of 2025

For the latest in our review of 2025, we explore the best hotel designs of the year – from a surrealist hotel by Philippe Starck to an Oaxaca hotel modelled on pre-Hispanic pyramids.

The hospitality industry stepped up its game this year, with a number of exciting openings ranging from the adapted reuse of existing buildings to brand-new designs.

Below, we've collected the 10 best hotels we saw this year.

Banyan Tree Higashiyama Kyoto, Japan, by Kengo Kuma

An early...