First Look: Hotel Aka Alexandria
Boutique hotel Aka Alexandria, located less than 20 minutes from Washington, D.C., is the first American hotel designed by Lissoni New York.
Boutique hotel Aka Alexandria, located less than 20 minutes from Washington, D.C., is the first American hotel designed by Lissoni New York.
Since Washington has yet to gain widespread fame for its wines, now is the time to try, and buy, the best the state has to offer before demand increases and prices explode.
The American capital’s southwest waterfront has been transformed by the opening of Pendry Washington DC – The Wharf, the seventh addition to the Pendry Hotels & Resorts portfolio.
For the second-most-important wine-producing state in the United States, Washington is surprisingly little known internationally. Perhaps it’s because second is so far behind first: California.
The natural world seems larger than life in Washington State, where towering conifers drip with lush green mosses and volcanoes sit quietly.
When the President of the United States comes calling, you answer. Even if that means arranging for a full-size, 1,800-kilogram Neapolitan pizza oven to be delivered to the tarmac of Washington’s Paine Field Airport so that you can personally cook for Barack Obama.
Room 272 at the Edgewater hotel in Seattle seemed like most other hotel suites in the early 1960s. That is, until August of ’64. The Edgewater is perched above the waters of Elliott Bay on Pier 67, and it is steeped in rock-and-roll history.
Like its leading restaurants and hotels, the American capital’s architecture is expensive and dull. Every note composing Washington’s new buildings is fine—the best limestone and marble, hammered copper roofs, and exotically tinted high-tech glass—but there is no architectural music here.