Man has always been a natural innovator looking to the future to push boundaries and out-do their predecessors. These 10 futuristic concept hotels are no exception to that rule. Gathering inspiration from, one can only assume, science fiction novels and movies – will these hotels be the five stars of the future?
10. Hotel Full Moon and Hotel Crescent
These two hotels, designed to be counterpoints to one another, are planned to be constructed in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku. These hotels, while claimed to be inspired by the moon, look more like the Death Star from Star Wars than ultra-chic and modern hotels. These hotels are meant to sit in Full Moon Bay, will be joined by three tall residential buildings and a fourth, 43 floor office building.
9. The Poseidon Undersea Resort
Bruce Jones, a ground-breaking submarine designer for the rich and famous, has directed his skills toward the lucrative hotel industry on an island in Fiji. The design will be surrounded by 5,000 acres of lagoon and includes 550 square feet luxury underwater suites. Need more incentive? The resorts website states that, ‘the first 100 guest will have their names permanently inscribed on two monuments one on the island, and one on the floor of the lagoon.’
8. Waterworld
Designed around the Songjiang, China lagoon-like quarry the 400-bed resort and hotel is shaped within the lagoon’s natural elements, with distinctive subterranean public areas and guest rooms. Designed by the Atkin’s Architecture Group, the group and design won last year’s first prize award in an international design competition.
7. The Diamond Ring Hotel
Also known as the Voyager V1, there is very little known about this hotel other than it is a hotel of the future in the shape of a ferris wheel. Indications lead us to believe the hotel will be located in Abu Dhabi and is currently based on preliminary architectural renderings.
6. Hotel Pods
This concept hotel first imagined by Thomson Holidays in a report he released, “2024: A Holiday Odyssey.” The idea of these pod hotels is that they will be foldable pods built on stilts that offer all of the luxurious amenities of a traditional hotel. Most interestingly, guests could design their own rooms by projecting their favorite images on the walls. These pods could be transported to any location in the event of a tourism shift or terrorist attack.
5. Hydropolis
The Hydropolis Underwater Hotel and Resort, designed by Professor Roland Dieterle, is planned to be the world’s first underwater luxury resort. Located 66 ft underwater in the Persian Gulf, there are reported talks with the Disney Corporation to hold an underwater production of the Little Mermaid in the hotel’s lobby. Seems fitting, doesn’t it?
4. The Lunatic Hotel
This hotel is truly futuristic in that it is not projected to be completed until 2050. Steel and water will have to be launched to the moon for this endeavor, but its designer, Hans-Jurgen Rombaut, claims that the existing minerals and ores on the moon can supply a majority of building materials. The most interesting feature? Guests will supposedly be able to experience low-gravity in specially designed towers.
3. The Apeiron Hotel
While still being designed, the Aperion Hotel would be the second self-awarded 7 star hotel in Dubai. With a jungle theme in the 350 luxury apartment suites, the futuristic hotel includes a private lagoon, beaches, restaurants, cinemas, shopping, an art gallery, spas, and conference facilities.
2. Aeroscraft
A flying hotel equal to two football fields in the air would be able to accommodate 250 passenders and would travel at a speed of 174 miles per hour. The airship would provide tourists with a host of amenities including a casino, restaurants, and staterooms. In short, this hotel would be similar to a cruise liner in the air.
1. The Inflatable Space Hotel
This space hotel has a much sooner expected completion date of 2015. The Commercial Space Station Skywalker is an inflatable hotel to be located – where else? – in space! This hotel comes fully equipped for other future technology like space yachts and moon cruisers, and not to mention an estimated $1 million a night price tag.
These concept hotels may be in design and even some prototypes, however, for now some of these science fiction beauties are likely to stay just that for a while longer, fiction.
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