The Elyton Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama is both classical and contemporary all at once. Newly renovated and opened in 2017, the hotel occupies the Empire Building, a 16-story Classical Revival style skyscraper built in 1909. While the exterior is covered in molded terra-cotta with sculpted faces, ornate leafy details, pink granite columns, and a wrought iron awning over the entrance, the interior rooms are exquisitely modern, with bold artwork, marble bathrooms and Round disk covered light spheres that cast crazy shadows.

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