Project: The Asbury, Asbury Park, New Jersey Designer: Anda Andrei, Anda Andrei Design (with architecture by Stonehill & Taylor and guestrooms in collaboration with Bonetti Kozerski Studio) Highlight: Besides being the beach town's first new hotel to open in more than 50 years (and part of a larger rehabilitation plan from iStar), it's the rec room-inspired lobby, complete with bright blue bleacher seating set under an all-glass atrium addition to the former derelict Salvation Army building. 134 July 2016 hospitalitydesign.com Photo by NIKOLAS KOENIG women of influencehttp://www.hospitalitydesign.com