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Architects: WEI architects/ELEVATION WORKSHOP
- Area: 990 m²
- Year: 2015
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Photographs:Xia Zhi, Ying XING Team, Tingting HU, Liang ZHENG

Text description provided by the architects. WHY Hotel is a hot spring hotel located in the northeast Beijing suburb of Peking Backyard. ELEV/WEI Architects was initially hired to renovate an existing structure of 20+ rooms and add seven new units on top of an existing parking area, without any major changes to the cartoon theme of the hotel. However, the owners of WHY Hotel are a group of daring businessmen in their early thirties: once open communication was established between the clients and architect, they quickly agreed to transform the project from a cartoon-themed agritainment style hotel to a design-focused boutique hotel, unified by a beautiful bamboo grove.
