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Travel + Leisure 2 012 t + l i t l i s t June, 2012 Courtesy of Singular Hotels
Design: The Singular, Puerto Borries, Patagonia, Chile Here’s a challenge: take a century-old meat-storage facility on the shoals of Patagonia’s icy fjords and turn it into a top-notch adventure resort. The first hotel from Singular, an independent, Santiago-based hotel company, is up to the task. Chileanborn designer Enrique Concha helped transform the brick-and-timber structure an hour from Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park into a cavernous main lodge with cathedral ceilings and dramatic walls of glass. Fifty-seven guest rooms—all with floor-to-ceiling windows—look onto the original pinewood dock, the Last Hope Sound, and the snowcapped Andes. After a hearty traditional breakfast we were fortified enough to explore our surroundings, which included the two for-guestsonly private reserves, just a short sail away. thesingular.com. $$$$ —Rocky Casale
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