Traveling has already become a fashionable hobby. However it is necessary to note that fact, that the more the demand is, the more exquisite is the offer. In the market of elite tourism survive only those who can offer the clients something extraordinary. First of all it concerns hotels.
Who will stay in an ordinary hotel if there are places with amazing architecture and service? Hotels’ owners realize this and start to build the true miracles of hotel business - magnificent and, the main, unusual hotels. There are not many similar projects in the world however it is not for a long time. We represent you the list of the most futuristic hotels which are already constructed or will appear in the nearest future, and not only on the ground, but also under the water and even in space!
One of the most magnificent already existing hotels in the world is considered Burj al Arab, located in Dubai. This hotel amazes with its fantastic riches. It juts out above the Persian gulf on 1 053,15 feet and is the highest in the world. Its architecture is unique: the hotel is constructed as a sail; the last floor has a helipad. The building stands on an artificially created island in 918,64 feet from the coast. Ethnic design with east hospitality is combined here with the last technologies. Floors of the most magnificent apartments are covered with 22-carat gold, and that “simpler” with a marble. The 28-storeyed hotel has 22 apartments, the price for which reaches 28000 dollars. The hotel has 8 restaurants, including bars, fitness - club, conference hall and the entertaining center.
Hotel «Mysterious island Poseidon», with its area in 1 065 627,13 sq. ft, will be constructed at a depth of 39,37 ft already by the end of the next year on Fiji. “Poseidon” will be the first underwater hotel in the world. Only imagine: windows of your apartment will face surprisingly beautiful sea lagoon full of mysterious inhabitants and plants. Names of first thousand clients are promised to be engraved on one of two monuments which will stand on the island and at the bottom of a lagoon. Among the services of hotel there will be a journey on a submarine, excursions on reeves, scuba diving, research of the underwater caves and still more many other things. According to some information, a week holiday in” Poseidon” will cost about 15000 dollars for one person.
In the nearest future will appear other underwater hotel which is already under the construction in Dubai. Underwater resort Hydropolis will show all beauty of the underwater world. In huge territory of a hotel (1,1 million sq. meters) there will be a shopping center, a dance hall, restaurant, a cinema, and clients will live not in apartments, but on villas. By the way, underwater environment requires special precautions; therefore hotel will be supplied with antiballistic missile system. Also the hotel will have an above-water part intended for open-air activity. It is known, that 150 companies have already been involved in the construction of Hydropolis.
Some time ago Sybarite Company has offered its project of a unique hotel The Apeiron island hotel. In the nearest future hotel Apeiron with the declared category in 7 stars, which will cost for the investors about 500 million dollars, will appear in one small island of an elite resort. In design pictures the building of the hotel reminds the huge fountain growing from the ground. The general area of this unusual construction is 2 152 782,08 sq. ft, height - 606,96 ft, and amount of rooms is equated to 350. This futuristic hotel will offer own lagoon, beaches, restaurants, cinemas, shopping centers, spa, conference halls and even art gallery.
For the design of one more unique hotel named Waterworld which is planned to be constructed in the Chinese city of Suntsian, the group of architects engaged in its development, has received the first prize at the last year’s international design competition. The one who will get in Waterworld will find himself as if in a fairy tale. There will be underwater public zones, rooms for visitors, cafe and restaurants, and also huge magnificent pool-lake. And due to the unusual location of a hotel (direct on a precipice), extreme sports, such as rock-climbing, will be offered.
Another surprising project has been submitted by Igor Pasternak from Worldwide Aeros Corporation. His original idea is a hotel hanging in air. Aerocraft Hotel will be constructed as a 400-ton dirigible balloon onboard which tourists will find the most magnificent accommodation and unique feeling of being in air at the height of 1,49 mi. The flying hotel can contain 250 passengers, and the maximal speed of flight will be about 173,98 mph. In such hotel travelers will be able to fly up to 5 965,16 mi. Except for rooms, in Aerocraft will be a casino and a restaurant complex.
English jeweler Stephen Webster visited Moscow, organized a grandiose party and presented the new collection.
Festival was devoted to the creative anniversary of the designer which 30 years creates jewellery. But really popular he became about six years ago when he created wedding rings for the Madonna and Guy Richie. Their example was fallowed by many other Hollywood star couples. However the case with Madonna was only the catalyst, sooner or later his jewellery would become fashionable.
Stephen Webster creates ornaments always on a sharp edge of classics and rock’n'roll: courageous hooligan themes and kind good friends of girls - brilliants, large stones and gold.
But Stephen Webster is well-known not only by provocations, he is the skilled jeweler and works in his own techniques of laser processing of stones and their combinations. Such way was born collection Crystal Haze and appeared one more characteristic feature of Stephen Webster brand.
Last season for Stephen Webster was marked by the first female watch Libertine and two new collections «Twist it» and «Top Kat».
«Top Kat» - are lovely and playful pendants, rings, ear-rings, but from serious materials – they are decorate with brilliants and black sapphires.
Though space tourism is at the most initial stage of its development, it is quite possible, that in couple dozens years the most crazy projects will be realized. And then travelers without fear will sit down not in a plane, but in a spacecraft, and will be offered to stop on the Moon at a first class hotel. So, for example, German architect Hans-Urgen Rombaut has already created a volumetric breadboard model of a hotel named Lunatic Hotel. By the way, he plans to construct it by 2050. Tourists will live in conditions of the lowered gravitation and will walk in special suits, made as capsules. The thick layer of the hotel, made of a lunar rock, will protect inhabitants of the hotel from a harsh environment of the Moon, in particular from temperature differences and fatal space radiation.
Architect Xavier Kloromont also dreams about the invention of a first-ever space hotel. Hotel Galactic Suite in the project of the architect from Barcelona has 22 capsules - rooms, 22,97 feet at length and 13,12 feet in diameter. Its main feature will be a huge a window - illuminator, opening as a diaphragm of the camera through which visitors will look in space.
Well, the new project of Bigelow Aerospace company for certain will allow to make space our second home. Approaching to making a reality space hotel CSS Skywalker, Bigelow Aerospace already launched last July space vehicle Genesis I, which is a model of space station. The inspirer of the CSS Skywalker project Robert Gibelow plans to finish work on CSS Skywalker by 2012. The orbital hotel will be a capsule in diameter of 98,43 feet and will weigh 220 462,29 lbs. The spacecraft will be equipped with a three-level safety system.
Company Vertu has created the new limited series of mobile phones Vertu Ascent Ferrari 1947 Limited Edition, devoted to the 60th’ Ferrari anniversary. Design of Vertu Ascent Ferrari 1947 Limited Edition was evoked by dynamical and stylish Ferrari cars. Following the concept of last Ferrari GT, phone is framed by red and black leather with black varnished inserts on each side.
Huge attention was given to details; the phone has an ideal balance between the form and functionality.
To emphasize Vertu Ascent Ferrari 1947 Limited Edition exclusiveness, each model has serial number from 1 up to 1947 - in honor of the year when appeared the first model with the firm trade mark Ferrari, created by Enzo Ferrari.
«I think, that there are many reasons for cooperation of Vertu and Ferrari», - said the president of company Vertu Alberto Torres. «We have many common clients. Lately I have met many Ferrari owners, who have Vertu. However, the most important is that both Ferrari and Vertu have identical high standards of design and development».
Vertu Ascent Ferrari 1947 Limited Edition is collected by hand by a team of high quality masters at a factory in Great Britain. Model has also the stylish cover which design was developed by Ferrari designers.
Vertu Ascent Ferrari 1947 Limited Edition will appear in shops in July, 2007.
Roman Abramovich decided to purchase a plot on the coast of Mediterranean sea which is considered one of the most beautiful and ecologically clean places.
According to the press information, Abramovich is going to get in Montenegro a 13-kilometer beach near to the seaside Ulzin city, which received the nickname Velika Plaza (the Big beach) to transform it into a magnificent resort - “new Dubai”. Now the most part of the Velika Plaza beach belongs to the state and will be privatized during the open auction the next month.
Main Abramovich`s competitors are groups of oil tycoons - Arabian sheikhs and large Hungarian builder Trigranit, which has already offered to invest almost $4 billion. To get an advantage, Abramovich`s representatives started to buy secretly plots and private houses along the coast nearby to Ulzin the month prior to the sale.
At present time Roman Abramovich already owns several private residences worldwide, a flotilla of luxury class yachts and the football club. Today his fortune is estimated in 10,8 billion pounds.
When you get used to the luxury, it is very difficult to surround yourself with an ordinary things. Can one think, what simple beach slippers can be really a precious thing and cost tens thousand dollars? But why not? In fact there are some companies that think, that is necessary to live tastefully, and especially to have a rest!
For the most addicted admirers of glamour Moszkito offers slippers, decorated with brilliants. Snake Charmer slippers, supplied with an instep support for convenience one lady can not only walk around the beach, but also to stroll along the during the hot summer days.
Every slipper is made from a black leatherand decorated with a wavy string from 24 round, beautifully faceted brilliants in gross weight of 6 carat. Snake Charmer is the embodiment of a very convenient and simultaneously beautiful footwear, however the price for such pleasure is enough high. One pair of these precious beach slippers costs 20 thousand dollars.
For those who nevertheless prefer the easier variant, Moszkito offers ordinary, but also very convenient slippers of different sizes and colors on much more liberal price.
Visit of the British Queen to the USA could not pass imperceptibly. To honor this important event Crown Royal Company has produced an exclusive and the most expensive in the history of the company whisky.
Perfect Canadian blended Crown Royal whisky is known for its wonderful taste, elegant design of the bottles and an aristocratic history. The first whisky of this mark was born in 1939 as a gift to the English king George VI. But only in 1951 this whisky came into the mass production.
Now Crown Royal has created the new version of the whisky, using ancient recipes and the newest technologies. The Crown Royal XR Extra Rare Heritage Blend is the name that received the drink which was presented to the English Queen. The special design bottle as an elegant decanter, made by the artist Casey Hyland from Louisville’s Glassworks, was decorated by 24-carat gold incrustations.
Quite clear that this whisky is unique and will come into the market, at least now. However authors answered that such bottle of this historical drink would cost not less than 10 thousand dollars.
French wine Chateau Lafite Rothschild does not need presentation. One of the most known wine in the world, it is highly rated by wine gourmets. Now they have an opportunity to get the biggest collection of its wines, offered by The Antique Wine Company - 48 vintage bottles, with the oldest which is 220 years old.
London company The Antique Wine Company engaged in a sale of old wines, collected the collection for two years from the best restaurants, hotels and private cellars, including a cellar of one of the Rothschild family members.
The one, who will get The Great Antique Lafite Collection, will be the owner of a history part, the true wealth.
This collection includes bottles of all possible formats, even the 6-liter “Imperial”. And though the quality of the collected wines is undoubted, the best experts were called to prove its authenticity. The age of a glass of bottles was determined with the help of a combination of the radiometric analysis, gamma - radiation and proton beams and the wine itself was taken out with a medical syringe from a cork and put to the molecular and chemical analysis.
The sale of the collection will begin this May and only by individual negotiations. The exact price is unknown yet; it is expected, that the unique wines will change hands for 1-3 million dollars.
