The Joule

The Joule is a four-star, 160-room hotel at 1530 Main Street in downtown Dallas, Texas, developed by Headington Hotels and owned by Timothy Headington.

Condé Nast Traveler's Readers' Choice Awards 2026 place it No. 6 among the best hotels in the world, after earlier Readers' Choice awards in 2021, 2024 and 2025. The magazine calls it an art-inspired hotel and suggests its lobby may be the most beautiful boutique-hotel lobby in the city.

The building was put up in 1927 as the Dallas National Bank Building and is one of two Gothic high-rises in the city. Its interiors were designed by Adam Tihany, and its 10th-floor pool cantilevers eight feet out over the easement below. The art collection includes works by Tony Tasset, Andy Warhol and Millard Sheets, and in the basement the cocktail bar Midnight Rambler draws on the bar from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining for its decor.

Sources of this text: Wikipedia · Condé Nast Traveler (US)