The proposal by Capella Garcia Arquitectura is designed for a music-themed upscale Hotel Competition in Jurmala.The resort town, located on the Latvian coast of the Baltic Sea, in the Gulf of Riga ...

“There is a lot more to Jurmala than just miles of beach,” Dace Strele, one of the team at the Hotel Jurmala Spa, tells me over coffee and croissants. Indeed.

The five-star Baltic Beach hotel and spa, for example, will be slashing its prices for the peak season. Last July, sea-facing rooms fetched up to €8,000 for seven nights – the minimum stay ...