The Beijing Soluxe Courtyard Hotel was architecturally inspired by a Chinese traditional home centred around a courtyard. But just outside is Beijing’s centrally located Gulou Street of Xicheng District near a subway station. Built on the site of two Ming temples, the builders of the hotel says it ‘undertook elaborate renovations on the entire buildings which are embellished with large scale and elegant decoration in the distinctive architecture style of Ming and Qing dynasties’.