Hotels The Kowloon Hotel, 19-21 Nathan Road, Kowloon, (85-2) 2929-2888, fax (85-2) 2739-9811, www.peninsula.com, had a busy lobby and tiny, well designed rooms.
In this respect, a well designed control room is crucial for safe and efficient operation.
A well designed minimalist garden can effectively provide you with an extra room.
Surely the foundation of a well-designed room would be good workmanship and impeccable maintenance?
If it's installed in a well-designed room with enough space, said Peter Poljan, a senior associate with Corcoran Group in Manhattan, "it can be an attraction: buyers can see the potential that they could work out in their own apartment, and not have to go to the gym".
Forgetting to Layer A well-designed room has multiple layers.
Room entries, large bathrooms and sleeping quarters are cleverly separated by a sliding, translucent shoji screen, or panelled room divider, which provides both privacy and light in the well designed, minimalist rooms, which overlook the National Diet building, the Prime Minister's residence and the peaceful, 500-year-old Hie Shrine.
Another good option for the city centre, the Plaza offers comfortable well designed en suite rooms.
Die Träumerei's 17th-century building houses just four chic and individually designed rooms, as well as a cafe (die-traeumerei.com).
"I look for the hotels that have figured out the comfortable balance — a modern room that is well designed, and really clean sheets," he said during a telephone interview while on a recent business trip to Washington.
