They not only lure guests back out of their rooms, but also locals more and more often into vibrant hotspots that don't look like a hotel at first glance. hotelbau talks to Gabriel Kacerovsky from the architecture and design studio Archisphere in Vienna about shared spaces in transition.

"This new hotel plays in the Luxury & Lifestyle league and is part of the Hyatt Group."

"The residential and hotel complex planned by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano and his team, the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) with headquarters in Paris, had only recently been opened. The interest in visiting Renzo Piano's first and so far only building in Austria was therefore correspondingly great - but the number of participants was unfortunately limited to 50 people."

"Whether it's Translation or the Grand Budapest Hotel - numerous gems of cinema history are set in the hotel as a place to be seen. But what does this place look like in the digital modernity of 2019? On the occasion of the opening of the Andaz Hotel at the Belvedere in Vienna, we spoke with the architects and interior designers Carmen Dumitrescu and Gabriel Dumitrescu from the Viennese architecture firm Archisphere about current trends, the Airbnb phenomenon and Prince Eugene's living room."

"Gabriel Kacerovsky and Carmen Dumitrescu from the architecture and design studio Archisphere in Vienna have exceptional standards when it comes to design. Not only in their own projects, but also in their free time. To A-List, the two reveal their favourite pubs, hotels and contemporary architecture in Vienna."

"Austrian premiere for Andaz: With the Andaz Hotel Vienna Am Belvedere, Hyatt has now opened the second hotel of the luxury lifestyle brand Andaz in the German-speaking region - after the Andaz Munich Schwabinger Tor (Tageskarte reported) a few weeks ago. With Andaz, Hyatt wants to stand for a "new form of luxury": urban, individual, cosmopolitan and with local flair, Hyatt writes."

"Upscale demands: The seasons change, even in autumn it is sometimes still good to sit outside. And now it's high season: Rooftops are magnets that draw people upwards - worldwide."

"Enjoying time and space, informally exchanging ideas over a hot drink: coffee house culture is a story with a long tradition and a firmly anchored part of everyday life in Vienna. South of the new main station, Vienna is currently showing a much less local face ... "