Das Park Hotel

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To answer your first question [well, it was my first question anyway]: yes, those are sewer pipes. My ninjas, please.

Welcome to Das Park Hotel in Linz, Austria. This unique hotel has transformed standard concrete sewer pipes into hotel rooms, simply by giving them a back wall and large front door, and drilling a window in the side for a little bit of natural light. Throw in a lamp, a bed, and some sleeping bags and you’ve got yourself what looks like one of the most original hotel ideas that this ninja has ever seen.

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The three pipes/rooms are part of a larger hostel/hotel complex, which can be seen in the background of the two images above. My understanding of it is that visitors would normally stay in the main building, but can request the pipes instead [at extra cost? I'm not sure] – you get a key-code for the lock on the room, and enjoy your cylindrical accommodations. All the amenities – showers, toilets, mini bar, cafeteria, etc. are located in the main building.

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I’d be interested to know the designer – feel free to enlighten us over here at myninjaplease if you know.

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[ed. note: I forgot to mention that the pipes are seasonal - May to October, I believe - as there is no heat/insulation]

found at swissmiss, images from dasparkhotel

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Posted: January 26th, 2007
at 2:37pm by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, interiors, my ninja, please

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  1. Such a cool hotel! :)

    But it reminds me the japanese-rooms; those small cubicles to rest. But I would like to have one of this in my garden for my mother in law if she visits me. *s*

    Merucu

    27 Jan 07 at 8:46 pm

     

  2. it was me with a lot of help from a lot of friends and some other nice people …and ….after a two year testrun (180 bookings this year) …now we will trie to expand dasparkhotel to a nice little hospitalitytoolnetwork in and around austria in the next years.

    alll the best and visite us again in mai

    andreas strauss

    strauss@dasparkhotel.nte

    andreas strauss

    28 Jan 07 at 11:28 am

     

  3. [...] First off, let me introduce you to the Hotel Puerta America, in Madrid. Unlike your typical hotel, where there’s a ground floor with reception and all the public amenities followed by however many identical [or damn near] stacked on top of one another, this hotel has commissioned a different architect to design each floor. Yes, my ninjas – EACH FLOOR. [...]

     

  4. extremely innovative!!!!!!!!

    cod

    24 Oct 07 at 8:55 am

     


 

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