Upper House Chengdu

What the classifiers highlight

Two glass towers by the UK firm Make hold 142 rooms above a restored courtyard building that once housed scholars and translators, part of a thousand-year-old monastery complex where the Daci Temple still stands. Forbes notes rooms from 678 square feet in white, black and taupe, and an Italian kitchen, Tivano, known for wood-fired pizza and a bone-in rib-eye.