Oil Rig Eco Resort by Morris Architects
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Feb 2009
Our green friends from Inhabitat just shared this with us: Morris Architects, a Houston-based architecture and design firm, recently took top honors for two of their submissions in the Radical Innovation in Hospitality design competition. The grand prize winner, the Oil Rig Platform Resort and Spa makes use of one of 4,000 oil rigs out in the Gulf of Mexico and transforms it into a luxurious eco-resort and spa.
More details on the project, here.
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if the rich love oil so much, let them live with it.
where is kevin costner when you need him?
I think this is a very intelligent suggestion of what to do when the oil is finally over…
Exelent idea, recycleeee!!!!
Zero: Yeah very intelligent – to use gallons of fuel for transport to hundreds miles distant oil rig – making it absolutely uneco
good point Tapdo! Why not just demo the oil rigs and let the ocean be!
this idea only looks intelligent i guess. the gain is only the cost saving of the demolition, but the loss is forever expensive daily supply of the builidng operation, and the conflict between human living pollution/waste and the oceanic nature. silly?
couple of question guys…
during those windy nights, with splashin waves, thunder an all….
what will you do with the …roof palm trees? with the boats? with the pontoons?, light roof structures?
naaah dont need an answer.
but yes i agree with reuse!
perhaps an alternative to Guantanamo?
perhaps research station?
recycling plants?
alternative energy pods?
Haha!! Excellent point Claude…When can you actual take a vacation there, since hurricane season is from, I believe, March – October. It would probably be better as a prison (nod to Alcatraz).
such an ecologic place and totally without any connection with the enviroment it is in?
how you guys enjoy the sea & the place when living 25-30 meters above?
and the weather, the rogue waves, the wind?
errrr….NOOOOOO unless its a set for a horror movie that goes straight to DVD.
I think if it needs to be recycled, a school for marine biological research or a scientific platform perhaps fueled by wave and wind power….something more useful !! to Humanity perhaps.
when the oil is gone people aren’t going to be going on luxury vacations. and anyone with money isn’t going to want to hide out on abandoned oil rig in hurricane country. this place will be more like the abandoned naval station in the dr. who episode of the sea devils then the next posh resort in travel + leisure.
A stationary ugly cruise ship is not good idea. Are those yellow things lifeboats? I notice that the layout has been recently redone and it includes fewer powerboats and more sailboat. Obviously, the guest will have problems and fun during the lengthy hurricane season.