Top 16 Unusual Hotel Buildings in the World

1 – Grand Lisboa Hotel – Macau

Grand Lisboa Hotel is 258 meters high and shaped like a blossoming Lotus flower. The tower is inspired by the plumes of an exotic headdress of a Brazilian show girl’s carnival costume.

2 – Barin Ski Resort – Iran

The exterior of Barin Ski Resort was designed to blend with the surrounding snow covered landscape. Topographic layers instead of ice blocks are put on each other horizontally to make a domical form, inspired by igloos.

3 – Ryugyong Hotel – North Korea

Ryugyong Hotel is a strange 105-storey pyramid-shaped skyscraper. Its construction began in 1987, and it is still unfinished today.

4 – Hotel Axis Viana – Portugal

Hotel Axis Viana could be compared with a stack of box file or a giant pile of dominoes.

5 – Inntel Hotel – Netherlands

The insane Inntel Hotel is built up from almost 70 stacked traditional Dutch houses, where one building is on top of another, like a pileup of little houses. Photo by: Martiem – Flickr

6 -  Aviator Hotel – England

Aviator Hotel has the shape of an airplane propeller and is inspired by the aesthetics of aviation.

7 – Burj al Arab – Dubai

The exuberant Burj al Arab is a hotel designed to look like the sail of an Arabian dhow ship.

8 – Taj Lake Palace – India

Taj Lake Palace Hotel doesn’t feature a weird structure itself. What is unusual in this hotel is the fact that it looks as if it is floating in the middle of the lake.

9 – Hotel Unique – Brazil

Hotel Unique has really a unique structure that resembles a watermelon sliced in half. Photo by: Dan Araujo – Flickr

10 – Hotel Marqués de Riscal – Spain

The Hotel Marqués de Riscal building has an eccentric shape that reflects the colours of wine in a series of curved and asymmetry elements. Photo by: Gary Lloyd-Rees – Flickr

11 – Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort – China

Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring is a hotel shaped like a giant doughnut that was partially inaugurated in August, 2013. The whole hotel’s exterior is illuminated by LED lamps.

12 – Buqshan Hotel – Yemen

Buqshan Hotel has the typical architecture of Yemen, and its colorful façade really stands out. Photo by: Eric Laforgue – Flickr

13 – Hotel Jested – Czech Republic

Hotel Jested is below a strange tower structure that resembles a high pagoda. It is actually a television transmitter designed to extend the silhouette of the mountain it tops.

14 – Tianzi Hotel – China

Tianzi Hotel is a strange 10-story building that depicts Fu, Lu and Shou (Chinese gods that symbolize good fortune, prosperity and longevity). It holds the record of being the biggest image hotel in the world.

15 – Dunmore Pineapple – Scotland

The Pineapple is an eccentric summerhouse that features a pineapple-shaped cupola. The building’s hothouse was used for growing pineapples. In fact, it is not a hotel, but it may be rented as a holiday home.

16 – Marina Bay Sands Hotel – Singapore

Marina Bay Sands Hotel building consists of three towers that are connected by a 340 meter-long sky terrace on the roof, named Sands SkyPark, which resembles a ship and stands 191 meters from the ground. Photo by: Vibin JK – Flickr

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