Propeller Island City Lodge: Odd Architecture of the Week

Vacations are all about the destination and what goes on once you’re there, but there are some places where even the hotel can be a visual adventure. The rooms of Propeller Island City Lodge in Berlin, Germany, are art in and of themselves and are both beautiful and just plain odd at the same time.

Flying Bed Room
The room was built with a slanted floor designed specifically to make it look like the bed is flying in the middle of the room. The table and chairs are designed to complement the slanted room, so it feels like you are sitting down in a normal chair even though there is nothing normal about any of it.

Nightlight
While this room with the bronze abstract painted walls may seem normal at first glance, it’s a voyeur’s dream come true. The room includes a “spy mirror” so you can see the goings on of the room next door. If that isn’t strange enough for you, the bathroom was created to look like a giant plastic bag. Yeah, that kind of came out of nowhere for me, too.

Two Lions
Have you ever wanted to sleep in a cage? Me neither, but if you did, then this room features dual cages on stilts about four feet off the ground. You can choose to sleep in the cages or on a double bed. The hotel’s Web site says the kids love to sleep in the cages, but I don’t know if I would ever let them out again.

Nudes
Can you guess what this room is all about? The room is beautiful, with a blue sandstone bathroom, lilac colored walls and velvet curtains, but adorning the walls are nude paintings (also known as pictures of naked people). Leave it to the weirdest hotel in the world to create the perfect room for romantic ambiance and take it a step further by adding a bunch of naked people.

Space-cube
I am a science fiction nut at heart, and the Space-Cube room is a testament to futuristic minimalism. Sparse and metallic, the room features a bed that has a mechanical barrier, which can be raised or lowered to create one bed or two. The bed also has a blue light, and the walls are made of a colored glass. It’s very… umm… interesting.

Gruft
Twilight fans might want to choose this room if they want to get a little closer to Edward Cullen. A labyrinthine maze leads you to your two coffin beds high above the floor. Don’t worry about vampire hunters finding your sleeping quarters, as they have to traverse the maze, and with your aerial vantage point, you will see them coming.

Upside Down
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder, the upside down room has the furniture above you while you walk on the “ceiling.” Don’t worry, you won’t be hanging like bats on the upside down bed, because the real beds and furniture are located in caves under the floor… err… ceiling.

The Propeller Island City Lodge is the oddest hotel on the planet, and these are only a few of the many crazy rooms his hotel has to offer.

Image Source: flickr.com/photos/dsopfe/3927852733/

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