Future Places, Architecture & Hospitality
Future Places, Architecture & Hospitality explores spaces designed to change how people experience a destination. REVELATIONS follows remote hotels, underwater rooms, mountain resorts, landmark towers, and architecture shaped by extreme landscapes. These stories ask how design, engineering, luxury, and narrative combine to turn a physical place into a vision of the future.
6 stories in this collection
Morocco’s Tower Reaches for Tomorrow
Morocco's skyline has been forever altered with the unveiling of the Mohammed VI Tower, designed by Rafael de La‑Hoz and Hakim Benjelloun. At 250 meters, it's the tallest structure in the nation, sparking conversations about its sci-fi aesthetics.
Desert Rock: The Future of Hospitality Is Being Carved Into the Mountain
Most hotels are built on land. Desert Rock feels like it negotiated with the mountain first.
Treehotel: The Future Can Be a Mirror Cube in a Swedish Forest
Treehotel, located in Harads in northern Sweden, is a collection of architect-designed rooms suspended among the trees. It is not one hotel concept repeated with different curtains. It is a small forest of ideas.
White Desert Echo Base: Antarctica Gets a Space-Age Hotel, Because Apparently Earth Was Not Remote Enough
White Desert’s Echo Base sells something stranger: the feeling that you have left the planet while technically remaining on Earth.
The Muraka: Sleeping Underwater Is No Longer a Fantasy. It Is a Status Symbol
The old luxury promise was simple: a room with a view. The Muraka looked at that idea and decided the view should surround you while fish swim past your bed like unpaid extras in a very expensive dream.
Shebara: The Future of Luxury Has Landed on the Red Sea
There are hotels that look expensive. And then there are hotels that look like they quietly escaped from a science-fiction film and decided to behave like a private island.