10 Eccentrics Design Hotels around the world

Do you want to see the most eccentrics Design Hotels around the world? Take a look on this fresh new article at Design Contract.

The first one it´s Krystall Hotel by Waterstudio. A studio specialising in floating structures – led by Dutch architect Koen Olthuis – unveiled its design for the snowflake-shaped floating Krystall Hotel for an undisclosed site off the coast of Norway earlier this month. The 86-room hotel will be accessible only by boat and will feature a glass roof so that guests can get the best views of the Northern Lights. It is due for completion in 2016.

Innhotel hotel by WAM Architecten it´s the second of the list. Another Dutch design, this pile of houses is actually a single hotel building designed by Delft studio WAM Architecten for the town of Zaandam, in the Netherlands. The 11-storey building houses 160 rooms and its green shapes were inspired by iconic houses in the Zaan region. The architects said the project was “without a shadow of a doubt already the main eye-stopper in the revamped town centre and a building that has set many tongues wagging.”

Manned Cloud by Jean-Marie Massaud it´s a whale-shaped flying hotel and this is a proposal developed by French designer Jean-Marie Massaud with French national aerospace research body ONERA to accommodate 40 guests, plus a restaurant, library, fitness suite and spa. The airship would have a cruising speed of 130 kilometres per hour and a top speed of 170, and include a sun deck on top of its double helium-filled envelopes.

Antony Gormley’s Room at the Beaumont Hotel British it’s from a sculptor Antony Gormley who created this giant sculpture of a crouching man, which contains a £2,500 per night suite, on the side of a hotel in London’s Mayfair district. The space inside measures just four square meters, with a 10-metre-high ceiling and a small window positioned between the legs of the sculpture.

Designed for a site on a cliff near Lima in Peru, the proposal for the 125-room Unbalanced Hotel looks like it’s crashing into the landscape.”A hotel with these characteristics and dimensions constructed in a traditional way would be a visual barrier,” said the architects from Madrid firm OOIIO. “But, thanks to the hotel’s peculiar shape, the landscape is now even more relevant – we have framed it!”

The Bird’s Nest by Inrednin Gsgruppen it´s number 6 in our list. This tangle of twigs is just one of a series of highly unusual suspended hotel rooms at the Tree Hotel in Sweden.The Bird’s Nest is supported by existing trees on the site and includes a retractable staircase, with enough space for a family of four inside.

Water Discus underwater hotel by Deep Ocean Technology looks very much like a concept for a Bond villain’s lair, but this one is a real proposal by Polish company Deep Ocean Technology for the world’s largest underwater hotel. Inevitably, it’s being built in Dubai.The Water Discus will include 21 rooms, a diving center and a bar below water level, with smaller disc-shaped structures supported above the sea level on columns to provide additional facilities and that all-important helicopter landing pad.

The new Hotel Modez in Arnhem has a room covered entirely in scannable QR codes – linking to text, movies and even pornography – with the black-and-white symbols covering bespoke wallpaper, curtain and bed linen. “The room seems as abstract as it can be, but secretly you are surrounded by porn,” said Antoine Peters. “The abstraction of the room symbolizes the fact piquancy are always extracted from the eye, but I think these just belong to hotel rooms. And anyway, aren’t we surrounded by porn everywhere nowadays?”

At first glance, the visualisations for the Songjiang Hotel by Atkins don’t look all that unusual. But once you work out the scale – the hotel will be built into the 100-metre-high rock face of a disused quarry outside Shanghai – its true craziness begins to reveal itself. A huge waterfall will pour down from the top of the 19-storey complex, which will be partly built into a cave and have two floors underwater.

If you like remote locations, this is the hotel room for you the Alpine Capsule by Ross Lovegrove. The self-sufficient mountain living unit by London designer Ross Lovegrove will be located in Piz la Ila (Alta Badia, Italy) at 2,100 meters of altitude. The eight-metre-diameter design looks like a metal pebble, but is actually made from acrylic with a reflective coating to create a 360-degree view.