best hotels of the world( La Purificadora Puebla, Mexico)

Design Hotel. Great Value Mexican hoteliers are just beginning to explore the notion of adaptive reuse by turning old structures into design-forward, modern hotels. Grupo Habita was a trailblazer when they sheathed a dilapidated 1950’s building in Mexico City in a frosted-glass envelope, and with the opening of La Purificadora, they’ve brought the same concept to the colonial town of Puebla, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The company enlisted legendary Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta and his son Victor to repurpose a 19th-century former water purification plant (from which the hotel takes its name) into this 26-room property. By far our favorite spots are the lobby—with its triple-height ceiling, gray slate floors, purple low-lying couches, and a completely open wall—and the rooftop bar, which has a transparent swimming pool that runs along the building’s edge. The only gripe is the hotel’s location: though on the fringe of Puebla’s historic center, it’s separated from the cobblestoned streets by a multilane boulevard.