Smooth, swirling, seemingly endless marble caverns carved by the turquoise waters of Lago General Carrera in Chilean Patagonia. The polished rock walls and shifting light create a dreamy, otherworldly space, where one would almost expect to meet a mermaid.
A modern luxury cave hotel carved deep into the soft tuff of Sasso Caveoso, where smooth rock walls, soft lighting and a heated pool set inside an ancient cistern.
Another Frutiger Aero fantasy, ddesigned with bold, playful, high-gloss interiors by Karim Rashid (the same designer behind the Prizeotels). The colourful, early-2000s aesthetic of the Temptation Cancun Resort, delivers a strong sense of nostalgia for a world that no longer exists.
Built inside a former china clay pit, the Eden Project’s massive hexagonal biomes house rainforest and Mediterranean environments. The combination of futuristic transparent architecture, controlled climate, elevated walkways and dense vegetation produces a strong sense of being inside a carefully curated, optimistic future.
A vast glass dome with a towering indoor waterfall and tropical planting. When quiet, it feels like a polished, climate-controlled dream.
Originally opened as Prizeotel, this budget-design hotel in Hamburg’s St. Pauli district, designed by Karim Rashid, delivers a strong early-2000s Frutiger Aero atmosphere, especially in the quiet corridors and lobby during off-peak hours.
Striking 17-storey pink cylindrical tower with a gigantic green dragon, coiled around it. Visitors can climb the hollow body of the dragon, emerging near the creature’s head at the top of the tower.
Permanent art installation titled ‘hi boo i love you’ by artist Simon Whybray. Bright, fully enclosed stairwell painted entirely in bubblegum pink, forming a vivid monochromatic tunnel that leads from street level, up through a multi-storey car park, to the rooftop of Frank’s Cafe in Peckham.
Four massive billboard-like troposcatter antennas, left over from the Cold War, still standing on Anvil Mountain above Nome, Alaska. Known by locals as “Nomehenge”.
Former diamond-mining town in the Namib Desert, abandoned and slowly swallowed by sand, with elegant German colonial houses now filled floor-to-ceiling with drifting dunes.
