Atkins has won an international competition to design a resort hotel
which is going to be built in a 100 meter deep quarry in the Songjiang district near to Shanghai in China.
Although from these pictures the hotel looks almost unreal.
De Vrouwe van Stavoren: Recycled Wine Barrels Hotel – Netherlands
The De Vrouwe van Stavoren Hotel in the Netherlands salvaged four wine casks from Switzerland and converted them into rooms. Formerly filled with 14,500 liters of Beaujolais wine from the French chateau, each now holds a modest two-person room with standard amenities and even an attached bathroom and a sitting room.
General rates for a cask room are from 74-119 Euros a night with discounts of up to 75% off depending on season. If you go in the wintertime, a wine cask room can be as low as 18 Euros a night, cheaper than most hostels.
Hotel Blue Crystal: A Giant Iceberg – Dubai
Crystal Blue is the new crazy project that is about to rise in Dubai. This is a seemingly impossible to achieve. a hotel of ice in an area of land where the thermometer does not pray to get to 50 degrees. How do you support? Thanks to clean energy.
The ice hotel there for some time, the most famous one is built every year catching large blocks from a river Nordic. And ‘normal meeting in Russia or Canada or Scandinavia, but in Dubai? But we know that the emirs nothing is ruled out and so there are plans for a hotel and ice here.
The Hotel Blue Crystal will need a reckless amount of energy for self-sustaining and does not melt completely under the powerful sun of the Middle East. Make sense of this? And admitted that it is not granted a buffalo prefer projects greener dell’Emirato as Almeisan Tower and the towers to irrigate with salt water. In any case, the German duo of architects Frank and Sven Sauer has thought of everything. Thanks to an efficient system of solar panels.
