Outside view of the ski-slope at Emirates Mall in Dubai...
This is the first submission of a future series showing various hotel room views, taken during some of my recent trips... Often quite bland, other times memorably exciting, the view from one's hotel window is often an important, but somewhat underestimated, element in hotel (room) design. It's usually the second thing I check out after first gaining an initial overall impression of a room... Granted there's often not much a designer can do to improve the view itself, however, how it is framed, directed (angled), shaped, tinted, shaded, etc. does allow one to manipulate and direct the gaze, the quantity and quality of the light that enters, and which features of the view the room's user should be intuitively drawn to...
For earlier impressions taken from hotel rooms click here for Turkey, here for Australia, and here for a different view of Dubai...
Night view over Tokyo's Shinjuku district...
A Copenhagen view, with the Finnish Embassy opposite...
A view across the Salmiya shoreline in Kuwait...
Above and below: My view in Venice, with the Grand Canal to the right, and one of the city's multitude of smaller canals to the left. The hotel was located opposite a school...
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