An index, not an itinerary.
NHL Roud collects sixteen hotels and files them under four headings — art, capsule, casino, ice. The headings are not moods or price brackets. Each one describes something structural about how the building works: what it was built around, how long it lasts, how much room it gives you.
Every entry is written as prose rather than a specification sheet, because the interesting part of a hotel is rarely a number. There are no ratings here, no prices, no booking engine and no reviews — just a short, plain account of what each property is and where it stands.
Buildings where the collection came first and the bedrooms were arranged around it.
02Capsule HotelsThe sleeping berth as the whole unit — efficient, exact, and stranger than it sounds.
03Casino HotelsFour resorts with gaming floors, described here as hotels: setting, rooms, and what else is on site.
04Ice HotelsRebuilt every winter out of river ice and snow, then allowed to melt.
Four kinds, read side by side
Set next to each other, the four categories say something the individual entries do not. A capsule hotel and an ice hotel are opposite answers to the same question — how little of a building does a night actually require? An art hotel and a casino resort are both buildings that ask you to spend the evening downstairs. The index is arranged to make those echoes easy to hear.