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Shigeru Ban has designed a wooden meditation retreat named Zenbo Seinei, which is nearing completion on a verdant site on Awaji Island in Japan.

With the year drawing to a close, some of us are already thinking about where to holiday in 2022. As part of our review of 2021, Dezeen rounds up 10 impressive new hotels, including Pharrell Williams Goodtime Hotel, a 17th-century monastery conversion and clifftop villas on the Jurassic Coast.

Dezeen's top 10 hotels from 2021 include Pharrell Williams' Goodtime Hotel in Miami and clifftop villas on the Jurassic Coast.

Studio Avoid has completed a retreat in China's Hebei province comprising a series of cave-like brick-clad pods connected by a raised walkway.