Hotel on stilts on the Red Sea | Foster+Partners

Hotel on stilts on the Red Sea | Foster+Partners

The unorthodox hotel design of the British architectural studio Foster + Partners will be realized in Saudi Arabia as part of the Red Sea project.

British architectural studio Foster + Partners dreamed up a plan for an exceptional hotel on the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia. As part of the Red Sea Project’s development, visual plans were published that clearly show that the hotel on the island of Ummahat AlShaykh features a semicircular promenade and suites supported by stilts.

The Red Sea Project aims to create a tourist paradise that is completely carbon neutral, and the architectural studio wants to keep in line with this commitment by designing an attractive complex of buildings with minimal intervention.

Source: dezeen

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