Crimont
Four kinds of hotel, written one cell at a time.
An independent editorial index of art, capsule, casino and ice hotels — plain prose about what each building is, with nothing scored or sold.
The four cells of the register
Art Hotels
Hotels where the collection, the commission or the building itself is the reason to book the room.
3 entries
CCapsule Hotels
Compact sleeping berths engineered for order, quiet and a short, efficient stay.
3 entries
CCasino Hotels
Full-service hotels that happen to keep a gaming floor among their facilities.
4 entries
IIce Hotels
Seasonal lodging cut from snow and ice, rebuilt from nothing each winter.
1 entry
The four groups have almost nothing in common as buildings, which is exactly why they sit together here. A restored bank in Manhattan, a seven-hour sleeping pod in Hiroshima, a resort above a waterfall and a village carved out of snow each answer the same question differently: what a room is for, and how long you are meant to stay in it. Read them side by side and the differences do the explaining.