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Floating hotel concept creates its own electricity Floating hotels have been popping up all over the world in recent years, with destinations like Dubai and Qatar leading the way with increasingly innovative and outlandish structures. But this new concept from Turkish design team Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio (HAADS) may just blow all the others out of the water in terms of eco consciousness. Not only does the luxury hotel design, which has 152 rooms, actually generate its own electricity, it also collects and reuses rainwater and food waste. Adopting the motto “minimum energy loss...
The Qatar eco-hotel concept that generates its own electricity CNN 1 hr ago © Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio Floating hotels have been popping up all over the world in recent years, with destinations like Dubai and Qatar leading the way with increasingly innovative and outlandish structures. But this new concept from Turkish design team Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio (HAADS) may just blow all the others out of the water in terms of eco consciousness. Not only does the luxury hotel design, which has 152 rooms, actually generate its own electricity, it also collects and reu...
Arctic Bath from above [Photo provided to China Daily] Intrepid globetrotters and holiday adventurers who think they've done and seen just about everything the travel landscape has to offer might want to consider a serene and spectacular escape at the enticingly named Arctic Bath. The just-opened resort in Harads, Swedish Lapland – home of the indigenous Sámi people, it's an area sometimes referred to as northern Europe's last wilderness – is well worth the plunge. Part of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World group, the audacious, circular 12-room floating hotel/spa (with a plunge po...