From the rise of modular design and adaptive reuse to the lack of quality design and construction teams, hospitality leaders see both exciting developments and emerging challenges in a hot market that might cool off by 2020.

In the early 1930s, New York architects were competing in a frenzied, media-driven “race to the sky” to build the world’s tallest steel-frame skyscrapers, with the Empire State (riveted steel and limestone) breaking the steel and brick Chrysler...

With dynamic speakers from Brazil, Sweden and the UAE, the third annual HotelSpaces retreat had an international flavor, maintaining its intimate atmosphere while drawing more than 200 hospitality leaders to the Casa Marina Resort in Key West, FL.

Within the hotel industry, one will find that Birmingham, UK-based BLOC Hotels is shaking up a number of established models—creating more efficient spaces for business travel, using minimal design and modular construction.

Modern, minimalist and industrial are not typical terms associated with the Florida Keys, but The Perry Hotel in Key West, is putting a fresh spin on the image of a Florida island getaway.

Some of today’s most dynamic, architecturally intriguing hotels are adaptive reuse projects that have transformed car factories, parking lots, shopping malls, theaters, offices, apartments, nursing homes, warehouses, and banks and other older...