The 1888 Hotel in Sydney features guest rooms with 10-foot ceilings; windows and desks constructed from recycled timber; and a lobby, an atrium and a bar studded with reclaimed wooden beams and exposed brick.
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Fabriken Furillen in Gotland, Sweden, was once a limestone refinery. Now the hotel is a haven of sharp-edged Scandinavian design in a stunningly scenic -- almost lunar -- setting.
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Once a cooperage, Brooklyn's Wythe Hotel offers floor-to-ceiling windows in many rooms that look straight out onto the Manhattan skyline over the East River,
Adrian Gaut
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A century-old neo-Gothic building in the heart of New York's Garment District, the Refinery started out as a millinery factory. It is now an elegant, eclectic 12-story hotel.
Rick Lew
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Sir Albert Hotel in Amsterdam has a former life as a 19th-century diamond factory.
Ewout Huibers
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Formerly a dockyard warehouse on the Huangpu River, Waterhouse is now a high-design hotel in Shanghai.
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Originally a tobacco warehouse in the 1930s, the Shangri-La Bosphorus opened in May 2013 with the largest guestrooms in Istanbul.
