Hotels do not come more elegant or decadent than the Alvear. Hermes toiletries, Egyptian cotton sheets, roof top movies. Don't know about you but it works for me.
At the time this was built it was the tallest building in South America. Amazingly it still towers over the other buildings in spite of the fact that it was completed in the 1920s.
Yes, the building is carbon neutral, but how many Olympic mascot pins had to die to make it? While we love that the building is self-sufficient (they even collect their own rain water on the roof), we just wish it were a tad more subtle.
The Uluṟu and Kata Tjuṯa are two massive sandstone formations that are spiritually significant to the Anangu people. One of 19 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Australia.