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| Subject: Floating snowflake hotel offers different view of Northern Lights Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:26 pm | |
| Travellers who dream of seeing the Northern Lights will have the opportunity to do so from a glass-roofed, snowflake-shaped floating hotel come 2017.
Developed by Dutch Docklands, a company that specialises in the construction of floating structures, the Krystall hotel will be a luxury property stationed between fjords near Tromso in northern Norway. In the Arctic Circle, the city is one of the best places in the world from which to see the Northern Lights.
Construction of the 86-bedroom hotel is expected to start in mid-2015, with the hotel due to open about 18 months later. It will be built in sections in a wharf and towed into position. Inspired in part by the floating houses already in the Netherlands, the property will be built with a concrete base and tethered with cables to the adjacent fjords. The lack of firm foundations mean the complete structure could sway from between six to 10 feet to each side of its epicentre but guests should be oblivious to these gradual shifts in position.
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-planning/travel-news/floating-snowflake-hotel-offers-different-view-of-northern-lights-20140730-3ct61.html |
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