Abstract
The elements of the environment are characterized by variability. The structure of the city is also a subject to constant structural, social and material transformations.
 Objects in the city can play significant role for urban landscape. In recent years, it can be observed that the architecture of hotels in cities is becoming more and more unique. After years of building similar hotel facilities, architects began to create more and more original forms that attract the attention of passers-by and are remembered. The importance of individual places in the hierarchy of these space is also changing. Hotels are elements thatbuild the image of cities, often becoming their visual dominant. This applies to creating a sculpture in a space that catch attention with its form and play of colors.
 The aim of the article is to show, on the example of selected projects, how hotel buildings can shape urban images. The research method is based on the analysis of selected objects and showing their role in shaping the image of the city. The concept of the hotel influences the building of identity. The form of the hotel, the functionality, the materials, and their combination, create the semantic experience for observer. The hotel becomes a ‘story’ narrative that gives visitors or pedestrians a personal feeling of reading architecture.
 According to Kevin Lynch (1960:8), the external image we perceive can be analyzed by combining three factors: identity, structure and meaning. Identity is identifying an object, distinguishing it from others, making it exclusive. Thus, fragments of space of greater importance are created in the city, which are shaped in terms of public utility. These areas, having greater value, are also of greater prestige for the city. They add as well the aesthetic energy to the city.
Highlights
Contemporary architecture is a collection of various forms in public space
Architects become the creators of images
Hotels are elements that can build the image of cities, often becoming their visual dominants
Summary
Contemporary architecture is a collection of various forms in public space. Moving around the city, we participate in space, we examine and observe it. It is an interesting place that can take people to the dream zone, which is especially true for the building interiors This architectural project brought together nineteen of the best architect and designer studios in the world and boasts the work of four Pritzker Prize holders: Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki, and Jean Nouvel. In Poland, an interesting example of hotel architecture is the Nobu Hotel (figure 21) at the Wilcza Street in Warsaw It was designed by architects Przemo Łukasik and Łukasz Zagała and constructed in 2020. Hotels often become characteristic landmarks of cities and constitute the architecture of sign (the Inntel Hotel in Zaandam, the Cube Houses in Rotterdam, the Nhow Hotels in Amsterdam and Berlin, the Nobu Hotel in Warsaw). The aforementioned American town planner Lynch (Lynch 1960), writing about the advantages of forms, mentions that special forms make architecture unusual, noticeable, expressive, and recognizable
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