Alizé

In Lausanne's harbor district, this mid-century hotel occupies a modernist structure with curved glass walls and open-plan ballrooms of austere proportion. Fifty to one hundred fifty guests gather in a space of clean lines and spare materiality—steel railings, polished concrete, unadorned walls—where simplicity becomes its own ornament. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the water; the view is the room's chief decoration. It attracts couples comfortable with geometric clarity and contemporary minimalism.