Ladies and gentlemen, I present The Hydropolis Underwater Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates:
Currently under construction in Dubai, Hydropolis is the world’s first luxury underwater hotel. It will include three elements: the land station, where guests will be welcomed, the connecting tunnel, which will transport people by train to the main area of the hotel, and the 220 suites within the submarine leisure complex. It is one of the largest contemporary construction projects in the world, covering an area of 260 hectares, about the size of London’s Hyde Park.
“Hydropolis is not a project; it’s a passion,” enthuses Joachim Hauser, the developer and designer of the hotel.
The estimated cost of the hotel is £300 million, and it’s set to open in December 2007. Come one, come all!
28 Comments
July 12, 2007 at 8:43 am
Litbrit – You win the prize with this one…. OMG!
July 12, 2007 at 8:44 am
Brings a whole new meaning to the term “water sports.”
July 12, 2007 at 8:45 am
Apparently, it is a passion. The passion of the cock.
July 12, 2007 at 8:59 am
Oh my.
July 12, 2007 at 9:12 am
i love, love, love, the bubble action right at the appropriate place up top. i gotta go. i bet they have a caberet room where we could play.
July 12, 2007 at 9:15 am
Wow, the possibility of drowning without even leaving your hotel!
July 12, 2007 at 10:14 am
I predict a summer blockbuster in 2008 set in this hotel.
The possibilities are endless.
July 12, 2007 at 10:31 am
too.much.expendable.cash.
not.enough.architectural.taste.
July 12, 2007 at 10:44 am
Alarming.
July 12, 2007 at 10:53 am
Oh, I think it can’t be a surprising in a world where the phallus has achieved the status of a deity, though there is no man in the world capable of such a sustained erection.
It is opposite of the fear of the vagina dentata, the fantasy of the everlasting erection.
July 12, 2007 at 11:12 am
*snicker* *snicker* *snicker* heeheeheeHAHAHA
Jesus, I haven’t had so much fun snickering since I was about twelve and first heard about something or other that was big news to me at the time.
July 12, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Perhaps, when Mclame’s campaign comes completely unstuck, he’ll invite the few people still on board and not in jail to the opening. From todays news I understand they love “Water Sports”.
July 12, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Hahahaha-lolsnorf.
It’s Sealab.
Heeheeehee.
July 12, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Wow. And it’s even uncircumcised. That’s… something, alright.
July 12, 2007 at 5:29 pm
I think I dated this hotel. It looks strangely familiar.
July 12, 2007 at 6:51 pm
I’m desperately trying to think of something involving “wet spots” here, but nothing somes to mind.
I guess my brain is just too flaccid to rise to the occasion with all this competition.
July 12, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Regarding the phallic resemblance, well…. too easy (sea-men, wet spots, etc).
What I want to know is why billions of dollars are being spent on constructing the obvious site of future horror films.
Come on…
“We’re very excited with the progress on our construction of the latest representation of mans hubris. The posh furnishings will appeal to a wide range of the arrogant wealthy (who would provide great social catharsis, should they die for unforseeable reasons), and our friendly staff of down-to-earth underdogs with an unlikely range of survival skills will be happy to see to your needs. Our first round of guests have already made reservations for the exciting “Reckless Science” convention. Dr. Nyarlethotep will be hosting a public discussion titled “Archaeology: New techniques for unleashing Ancient Evil”, followed by a lecture on the recently mapped “Brain-eating killing machine” human genome, with the promise of an on-floor demonstration. Computer buffs will be excited to know that the whole event will be under the administration of our advanced AI, the DIpolar EFfectual LEns SHaped Binary Alpha Gamma System, affectionately dubbed “DI.EF.LE.SH.B.A.G.S”. In other exciting news, our Marine Predator Eugenics and Combat Training Lab is almost fully operational, pending some minor problems with animal containment.
We are absolutely certain that nothing could possibly go wrong, though radar above the Hotel does indicate an incoming storm which may interrupt all communica…..”
July 14, 2007 at 5:13 am
Gee, looks like it was modeled on one of my toys. I wonder if the architects shop at the same store or if they’ve been raiding my toy drawer.
July 14, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Of course all this discussion on “phallic” buildings overlooks
where the real power is: the capital. A giant tit.
July 14, 2007 at 3:42 pm
capitol
July 14, 2007 at 3:50 pm
I think that the Islamists finally have a credible cause they can all rally around.
They could call it ‘Death to the Giant Cock’
July 14, 2007 at 4:05 pm
[...] Dubai gets in on the act. [...]
July 14, 2007 at 5:15 pm
It looks like a Nike.
July 14, 2007 at 6:31 pm
What a copout. They’re building it . . . UNDERWATER?
Of course, not only would it not be possible to build such a thing above water in Dubai or the Middle East in general, I don’t think it would be possible anywhere else. Above ground phallic efforts still have to be marginally more abstract (e.g Swiss Re London, Chicago Spire). The underwater thing has given architects the freedom to do what they really think, and the client has bitten on it. We trust not literally. Funny.
July 15, 2007 at 12:41 am
Somewhere, Irwin Allen is smiling….
July 15, 2007 at 3:56 am
nice underwater hotel it looks like a man hotdog.:):)hehehe
July 15, 2007 at 9:01 am
I refuse to stay at an uncircumcised hotel! But they probably would not let me into their country anyway.
July 15, 2007 at 9:42 am
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