Will the hotel of the future look something like this?

Rethink Hotels, a design competition by Tablet Hotels and Jovoto asks designers to dream up New York's social hotel of the future. Tablet described its ideal property as “a hotel that’s a creative crossroads, where guests and locals make serendipitous connections of all kinds.” One concept blurs the line between hotel and the community in which it is placed. The hotel doesn’t have its private services. All facilities (laundries, restaurants, hairdressers, gyms, etc.) are used by hotel visitors and locals mutually. There are a range of entities already on the street – as theatre, gym, trattoria,etc., which will be used along with new, located inside heart, as part of the hotel services. Hotel visitors are provided with “all inclusive” card, which allow to use all aforesaid functions for free. See all the submissions here.