At the crown of the China World Trade Center Tower III — a 330-metre curtain-wall tower that dominated Beijing's CBD skyline when it completed in 2009 — Park Hyatt Beijing was fitted into the upper floors of one of the tallest buildings in the capital, with interiors by Remedios Simon Design that translate the tower's corporate ambition into something considerably more considered. The rooms carry a palette of warm celadon greens, pale oak, and brushed brass, the headboard panels upholstered in panels that echo traditional Chinese lacquerwork without resorting to ornament. Floor-to-ceiling glazing turns the CBD's nightly theatre of illuminated towers — Rem Koolhaas's CCTV headquarters visible on the middle distance — into something close to a living installation. The sky-level pool, sheltered beneath a vaulted glazed barrel vault of white-painted steel, sits high enough above the city that the water's surface reflects only sky and structure, creating an atmosphere closer to a contemplative bath house than a hotel fitness facility. The restaurant above deploys a greenhouse logic — full-height glass ceiling, slender birch trees planted between tables, raw volcanic stone cladding one wall — that manages to feel genuinely sylvan despite sitting some two hundred metres above Chang'an Avenue. With 237 rooms spread across 20 floors of the tower, the hotel maintains a density low enough to keep the corridors quiet, which in Beijing's Chaoyang District counts as a minor architectural achievement in itself.

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