The Peninsula Beijing reveals complete redesign

$123m (£94m), top-to-bottom transformation.

The renovation was conceived by celebrated Hong Kong designer and long-term Peninsula collaborator, Henry Leung of CAP Atelier. By reviving imperial Chinese architecture, design and artisanal expertise from across the centuries, combined with modern Chinese art and technology, Leung’s redesign “upholds China’s noble traditions of artisanship and innovation, while providing guests with an authentic sense of destination.”

The hotel’s original 525 rooms and suites have been reduced and reimagined to just 230 suite-style rooms, each offering a separate bedroom, living room, bathroom and dressing room. Standard rooms now offer an average of 65 square metres - the largest in Beijing.

The Peninsula Beijing’ collection of 61 suites offer inspired design and technological innovations, with themed suites including The Peninsula Suite – styled after a Chinese aristocrat’s home – and 17 reimagined Beijing Suites, which feature large living and dining areas, private dressing rooms adjoined to the main bedroom, and a cinema room.

The Peninsula Beijing Lobby has been crafted to mirror Beijing’s modern transformation. The existing area has been reconfigured to create a grand three-storey Lobby, which is a Peninsula signature in its 10 hotels around the world.

Four newly styled restaurants and lounges celebrate the “unique Chinese heritage of The Peninsula brand.” The Peninsula Beijing’s team of nearly 90 Chinese and international chefs is helmed by French-born Executive Chef Dominique Martinez, who previously worked at Michelin-starred restaurants in Luxembourg, Germany and Barbados. Embracing the “farm-to-table” concept, the hotel works directly with 22 farms in China that supply sustainably produced, predominantly organic vegetables, fruit, meat and honey on a fresh, seasonal basis.

The new Lobby restaurant occupies the pride of place in the new enlarged Hotel Lobby. It serves a wide selection of international favourites, plus the celebrated Peninsula Afternoon Tea. The Peninsula Beijing’s international restaurant, Jing, has been re-imagined as a contemporary “Farm-to-Table” venue, inspired by a secret Chinese garden.

The signature Huang Ting, Chinese restaurant, which originally opened in 2008, recreates a traditional Beijing nobleman's courtyard home. The brand new menu emphasises Cantonese cuisine embellished with fresh, seasonal ingredients. The new Huang Ting Tea Lounge, adjacent to the main restaurant, is styled like an ancient palace with Ming Dynasty-era tables and parasols. It serves more than 50 varieties of premium Chinese teas and sweet dim sum, and the resident tea master will offer seasonal samplings and tastings theatrically prepared in front of guests in the style of a traditional Chinese tea ceremony.

For guests seeking to relax and rejuvenate in ultimate style, The Peninsula Spa and Fitness Centre provides a qualified physiotherapist who uses elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine to provide guests with personal fitness and health guidance rooted in Chinese wellness philosophy.

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