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This Is What A Resort Carved Into A Mountain Looks Like

What good is a resort that sticks out like a grotesque pimple in an otherwise gorgeous locale? No good, that’s what. The designers of Wadi Rum Resort are taking the opposite approach by integrating the resort into a Jordanian mountainside, which they say has “nominal impact” on the surroundings.

You’ll be able to see the results of spas and rooms built into fissures and faults when it opens in 2014.

[FastCo Design and Inhabitat]

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    red t-rex

    Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM

    Paradise????

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    James F

    Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 4:07 PM

    Seems like a strange blend of Bladerunner, The Island, and the sahara.

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      Steve

      Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 5:46 PM

      There’s nothing Blade Runner in this at all. In fact, this is the most cliched description people will use for any vaguely-futuristic dystopian cityscape.

      On the other hand, it’s a dead ringer for Vulcan (from the newest Star Trek adaption). Desert settings, geometric shapes, minimalism, etc.

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    Des

    Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 4:25 PM

    Much of the attraction of Wadi Rum is that it’s so empty…not too sure about this.

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    Roh

    Friday, April 29, 2011 at 9:22 AM

    It’s got a touch of Total Recall’s Mars as well, especially concerning the big windows looking out onto the desert landscape. At least there wont be a life sucking vacuum if there is a crack in one of them.

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