hotels
Design
Tarzan’s Making His Reservations At This Frame Hotel
1:20PM Rosa Golijan | Finding a room service guy who doesn’t even blink if you’re running around in a loin cloth (or less) shouldn’t be tough in this Dubai hotel. The place already almost looks like a jungle on the inside. More »
Design
3:45AM Dan Nosowitz | A Holiday Inn in New York City, with the help of master house-of-cards builder Bryan Berg, has built a guest house (lobby, bedroom, bathroom) out of 200,000 key cards. That even extends to the undoubtedly-painful key-card toilet paper. More »
Hotel Guest Room Built Entirely From Key Cards
3:45AM Dan Nosowitz | A Holiday Inn in New York City, with the help of master house-of-cards builder Bryan Berg, has built a guest house (lobby, bedroom, bathroom) out of 200,000 key cards. That even extends to the undoubtedly-painful key-card toilet paper. More »
Science
You Wouldn’t Believe What You Can Cook In A Crappy Hotel Room
12:40PM Matt Buchanan | This week’s all about where gadgets meet gastronomy, but the truth is, the magic’s not in the gear, it’s what you do with it. Just look at what comedian George Egg does with the crap in his hotel room. More »
Design
Sleep In A 747 Cockpit For $US420
1:20AM Jesus Diaz | I loved the Swedish 747 Jumbo Hostel, not because it was Swedish, but because it’s funky to have a hotel in an aeroplane. Here is how it looks inside, including its $US420 cockpit suite. More »
Vehicles
The Hotelicopter Outed as a Fake
8:25AM Sean Fallon | Admittedly, the renders of the Hotelicopter all pointed to a hoax, but the truth is that we all got swept up in a viral campaign for Yotel airport hotels. [Yotel and Boing Boing Gadgets] More »
Vehicles
Stay At the Hotelicopter: The World’s First Flying Hotel
9:20AM Sean Fallon | Since 2004, the company behind the Hotelicopter has been working to modify a Soviet-made Mil V-12 into two world firsts: the “world’s biggest helicopter” and the “world’s first flying hotel.” More »
Design
Oil Rigs Become Luxury Hotels
2:00PM Gizmodo US Edition | What do you do with 4,000 decommissioned oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico? Instead of blowing them up—costing millions and killing aquatic life—Morris Architects’ Hotelier At Sea project turns them into Dubai-esque luxury hotels. More »
Random Stuff
Planned 49-Floor Vegas Hotel Gets Kneecapped to 28 Floors Because of Construction Fail
9:00AM Brian Lam | A hotel designed by famous architect Lord Norman Foster will be cut down to little more than half of its intended design because of improperly installed rebar on 15 floors. More »
Design
Dubai Hotelier Hasn’t Heard of Flip-Flops, Plans to Refrigerate Entire Beach
9:55PM John Herrman | There’s nothing like a good bit of Dubai excess, but this just isn’t impressive enough to justify the profligacy: the Palazzo Versace hotel is building a beach with refrigerated sand. More »
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