Eighteen hotels, written down one by one
The Dormer Record is a reference to eighteen working hotels, written down one house at a time. Sections cover interior work, buildings of ice and packed snow, four Canadian resorts and compact houses. Everything comes from open sources: hotel sites, mapping data and published material. There are no prices, no stars, no verdicts of any kind and nothing to buy here.
All eighteen
In cities
- Hôtel BienvenueParis, France
- Hotel Am KonzerthausVienna, Austria
- Nimb HotelCopenhagen, Denmark
- Miss Clara by NobisStockholm, Sweden
- Hotel Indigo Verona – Grand Hotel Des ArtsVerona, Italy
- The Prime Pod GinzaTokyo, Japan
- Hotel Zen TokyoTokyo, Japan
- Point A Hotel London Kings CrossLondon, United Kingdom
By water
- Hotel Bachmair WeissachRottach-Egern, Germany
- Montréal Casino & HotelÎle Notre-Dame, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Fallsview Casino ResortNiagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
- River Rock Casino ResortRichmond, British Columbia, Canada
- Casino Rama ResortRama, Ontario, Canada
- MEININGER Hotel Amsterdam AmstelAmsterdam, Netherlands
In the mountains and the north
- Hôtel de GlaceSaint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Québec, Canada
- IcehotelJukkasjärvi, Sweden
- Sorrisniva Igloo HotelAlta, Norway
- Hotel of Ice at Bâlea LacFăgăraș Mountains, Romania
- six Art Hotels Six houses where the interior work, the fittings and the rooms were made for that building.
- four Ice Hotels Four houses built from ice and packed snow, raised again at the start of every winter season.
- four Casino Hotels Four Canadian resorts described as hotels: concert halls, restaurants, spas and the ground around them.
- four Capsule Hotels Four compact houses: two with moulded berths in Tokyo, two with small standardised rooms in Europe.
How this is put together
Houses are chosen because something about the building can be described from a source: the interior work, the material, the ground it stands on. Nothing is placed in an order of merit and nothing is compared with anything else. Each entry keeps the same shape, so one house can be read against the next without a system of marks.
Where a fact could not be confirmed, the sentence was rewritten until it was true without it. Seasonal buildings of ice and snow are marked as seasonal, and compact European houses are described as small standard rooms rather than berths. The longer note explains the method.