Thursday, February 19, 2009

What do you do with old Oil Drilling rigs?

Well, you could dynamite them, but that leaves all sorts of oily junk on the seabed. Yuck.

Or you could turn them into luxury hotels.


You can tell it's a luxury hotel, and not a Red Roof Inn, because there's a yacht docked at it in the picture ...
According to BldgBlog, approximately 4,000 oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico will be decommissioned within the next century. Morris proposed to convert this space into exclusive, self-sufficient eco-friendly, high-end resort islands off the Gulf of Mexico, dubbing it our very own American Dubai
Kind of clever how he plans to do it. Click through to the article.

Hat tip, Chad Crayton.

2 comments:

  1. Weer'd BeardFebruary 21, 2009 at 8:57 AM

    Seems like the view, sunrise and sunset would be awesome, but might get a tad boring after a while. Reminds me of a cruise ship without the shore excursions.

    Still put a double-trap thrower up on the top deck and I'd go there for a month easy! ; ]

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  2. BorepatchFebruary 21, 2009 at 9:02 AM

    Weer'd, it would sure make rule four easy. Heh.

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