{"type":"city","city":"Graz","citySlug":"graz","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/austria/graz","description":"Graz has spent decades being Austria's most quietly confident city — the place that built the Kunsthaus (Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, completed 2003) and let it sit beside the medieval Schlossberg without apology or explanation. That biomorphic blue-gray blob, known locally as the Friendly Alien, is the most visible signal of what Graz actually values: not heritage preservation for its own sake, but genuine architectural argument. The city's Altstadt sits on the UNESCO World Heritage list precisely because it held its form long enough to matter, which makes the post-millennial design interventions all the more charged when they appear.\n\nThe two properties on this platform sit in different parts of the city and arrive at hospitality from different angles. In Jakomini, a residential district southeast of the Altstadt that functions as the city's art-school quarter, the Augarten Art Hotel has built its identity around the contemporary Austrian art collection displayed throughout the building — a deliberate programming choice that positions the hotel as a cultural institution with rooms rather than a decorative gesture toward local culture. The approach suits a neighborhood where the Neue Galerie Graz draws serious visitors who would rather engage with Klimt and Schiele in a focused context than trail them through a grand tour. At $123 a night, it operates at a price point that rewards travelers who care where they are more than how much they spent getting there.\n\nAcross the Mur River in Gries, Graz's historically working-class district that has been absorbing creative spillover for years, Hotel Das Weitzer occupies a different register entirely. The Weitzer is a long-established address — it has been part of the fabric of this neighborhood for over a century — and its position on the riverbank gives it an orientation toward the city that feels earned rather than calculated. At $104 per night in the medium tier, it is the more modest proposition, but Gries is itself more textured and less finished than Jakomini, which has its own appeal for travelers who prefer a city still sorting itself out. Together, these two properties sketch something true about Graz: a city that takes design seriously enough to argue about it, but remains too grounded to mistake polish for substance.","provider":{"name":"PressBeyond","url":"https://pressbeyond.com","description":"PressBeyond provides AI-optimized hotel content with a consistent 5-image structure across its entire portfolio. 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Designed by Graz-based architect Markus Pernthaler and opened in 2012, the nine-storey property sits in the Jakomini district with the directness of a convinced idea: exposed concrete ceilings run through the corridors and terraces, perforated metal screens cast diagonal shadow patterns across the glazed gallery walkways, and the building's rooftop lettering — visible punching through upper-floor windows in blue steel — functions as both signage and sculpture.\n\nInside, the interiors hold a consistent dialogue between Modernist furniture canon and original commissioned art. Le Corbusier LC2 armchairs in white leather anchor the common-area seating, paired against large-format abstract canvases in vivid colour — a deliberate counterpoint to the building's cool grey envelope. Guest rooms carry the same spare logic: oak-plank floors, floor-to-ceiling glazing framing rooftop views of Graz, and individual pieces like a copper-framed wire lounge chair that place the rooms closer to a design collector's apartment than a conventional hotel. The indoor pool, fitted beneath a steel-truss roof open to a glass wall, carries a large figurative mosaic in cobalt and gold on its end wall — the strongest gesture toward warmth in an otherwise rigorously restrained property.","snippet":"A 2012 Graz modernist hotel with exposed concrete, LC2 furniture, and commissioned art throughout.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and modernism collectors","vibe":"Brutalist-refined · art-forward","highlights":["Markus Pernthaler-designed 2012 building with exposed concrete and perforated steel","LC2 armchairs paired with commissioned abstract art in guest rooms","Rooftop pool with cobalt-gold mosaic beneath steel-truss glazing"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$117","pricePerNightExclTax":"$117","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujeqf03ff15ympp8z24l61713355962634_977c83e1-89e7-426b-a05f-75dbd263e60a.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Augarten Art Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Augarten Art Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Augarten Art Hotel captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujkml04h715ymcujzjxjb1713355963138_7f172427-49a9-4b62-8909-8df03f4c1d52.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Augarten Art Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Augarten Art Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Augarten Art Hotel, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujqg505iz15ympk3mn98w1713355962018_f64198c0-fa60-4910-806f-d5f0295df742.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Augarten Art Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Augarten Art Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Augarten Art Hotel — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujwd906kr15ymf9qwmcx21713355960755_ef8f6d97-eab4-45f7-9f55-9c5d8e5f4a1f.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Augarten Art Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Augarten Art Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Augarten Art Hotel, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uk27e07mh15ym22yx4a5p1713355963700_e19f8b94-8928-44e6-9e70-f4ccf1f1c219.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Augarten Art Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Augarten Art Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Augarten Art Hotel — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Hotel Das Weitzer","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/austria/graz/hotel-das-weitzer","city":"Graz","cityHeader":"Graz • Gries • OPTIMIZE","neighborhood":"Gries","designSummary":"Directly on the bank of the Mur river in Graz's Gries district, a late nineteenth-century Gründerzeit palace presents its cream-rendered facade and rooftop flaglines to the rushing glacial green water below — a composition that has defined this stretch of the Grieskai since the property first opened in 1909. Hotel Das Weitzer has been a fixture of Styrian hospitality for well over a century, its five-storey neoclassical envelope preserved while successive renovations have quietly modernised the 101 rooms within. The guest rooms carry herringbone-laid oak parquet floors and deep-set original windows with louvered shutters, furnished with dark-framed platform beds anchored by crimson and burgundy cut-velvet headboards in a bold arabesque pattern — a considered counterpoint to the pale sage and white plaster walls. Gilded baroque mirrors hung against sections of deliberately exposed, patinated render suggest a layered archaeology rather than a restoration.\n\nThe public spaces sustain that same productive conversation between periods. The vaulted dining room beneath sandstone barrel arches — warm-toned ashlar that carries the building's nineteenth-century weight — is furnished with burgundy leather banquette seating and bentwood chairs, climbing plants trained against the rear wall lending an almost greenhouse quality to the space. A second, more casual restaurant takes a Viennese Beisl approach: Thonet café chairs, a granite bar counter, pendant lights fashioned from inverted wine bottles with hand-lettered labels, and a deep apothecary cabinet in dark walnut running the length of one wall. 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