Hotel Puerta America is the most exciting thing to happen in Madrid's accommodation scene in decades. When the owners of the hotel looked at their location - halfway between the city and the airport in an area of apartments - they knew they had to do something special. So they did something beyond most people's wildest imaginations.
Their idea? Take some of world architecture's most eminent and innovative names and give them a floor each to design. The result? An extravagant pastiche of styles honouring the legacy of everyone from Sir Norman Foster and David Chipperfield to Zaha Hadid and Ron Arad. With such a gallery of the great and the good, there's something for everyone, from curvy minimalism to zany montages of 1980s chic, from bright red bathrooms that feel like a movie star's dressing room to white and glass and stainless steel all in one. The bar (a temple to the liturgy of pleasure), restaurant, façade, gardens, public lighting and parking garage also each had their very own architect. The unifying theme is luxury, comfort and no-expense-spared. Somehow it works, hanging together as would a gallery of the finest in contemporary art. It's a whole new concept in hotels, one sure to catch on elsewhere.
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