The Floating Sphere Hotel

Written by Beth Flanagan

Remember those sci-fi movies of the 80s and 90s about life in the new millennium? Well, they were right. Sort of.

The Sphere Hotel is an orb, or pod if you will, that will be situated on a cliff face between Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the UAE. The location is roughly 300 meters from the beach on an artificial island that is accessible by bridge.

Floating sphere cliff hotel design The concept is to provide hotel guests with complete isolation and solitude, a place where they can leave their worldly worries behind and harmonize with nature… or a fake island paradise.

The Sphere Hotel was created by Milla Rezanova, a Russian designer who graduated with honors from Rhodec, a British school of design in London. Her concept was to design a space where objects, light, color and architecture exist in organic interconnection with human beings.

Would you consider this “organic interconnection?”