Ambitious Florida-based Oppenheim Architecture + Design have quite the design in mind for a resort in Wadi Rum, Jordan. Modeled after the mountain city of Petra, the design would see 47 lodges carved into the side of a sandstone mountain.
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.
It’s bad enough that we have gadgets and software sticking an ‘i’ in front of their product name to try and pretend that they’re Apple, but toiletries? Isn’t that taking it just a step too far? I mean, iVanity Kit? Really?
City Centre, the newest mega-resort in Las Vegas, boasts a few awesome-looking attractions, including gigantic ice popsicles, water tornadoes and laser-coloured fountains.
