hotel hot list The Buda Resort Visegrad, Hungary About 30 miles north of Budapest, near the Danube River, an unfinished concrete structure once intended as a Hilton in Hungary's Visegrad Hills is being transformed by Copenhagen-based Johannes Torpe Studios into the Buda Resort, a 210-key luxury spa retreat. Built into a former stone quarry, the form nods to its hillside setting. In fact, the property itself rests on circular columns, opening seven of the building's floors up to a massive, 100-foot-tall rock that sits at the center of the lobby and serves as a breathtaking anchor. Based on the idea of a lotus flower-recognized as the symbol for the heart chakra-the design explores a sense of opening up from the earth to the sky. 086 June 2020 hospitalitydesign.com Renderings courtesy of THE BUDA RESORT and THE LONDONER -http://www.hospitalitydesign.com