There is the building 20 meters high and the huge sign that reads: Hotel.
However, it is a very particular hotel,
in which it is impossible to stay.
It is situated next to a highway on the outskirts of
Melbourne
, in the state of Victoria.
in Australia.
It is the EastLink Hotel but unlike others,
tourists are not allowed
in this one , or anyone really.
Because the EastLink Hotel
is not what it seems.
Designed by local artist Callum Morton, the (not) hotel opened in 2007 and
has confounded everyone ever since.
The strangest hotel in the world.
It's not as big as a high-rise hotel: it's 20 meters high, 12 meters wide and 5 meters thick, but going past it at high speed for the first time is really hard to tell, so it's not surprising that
the people actually look it up on the internet and call to reserve a room.
To make it even more confusing, at night some of the windows are lit up making it look like
some of the rooms are occupied.
But there are no rooms
, and you can't enter the building itself, because the whole thing is a sculpture designed solely for ornamental purposes.
“Motors will see it from the car
as a real hotel
and perhaps in time as an oddly scaled accessory that has escaped from a theme park or movie set,” artist Morton described the concept for this project.
The strangest hotel in the world.
Now, nearly two decades later,
his creation still plays on
people's minds as they pass through the motorway, also called EastLink, in Melbourne's Dandenong suburb.
At first, the large rectangular building with a big red "HOTEL" sign on top looks pretty normal, but then it's not as
imposing as it's supposed to be
and it's located in the middle of a barren field. , and that's when things start to get confusing.
But that's
all by design.
Eastlink Tollway FAKE Hotel Art Piece – Getting a Drone Up Close!
“I think it's interesting how to put something in a space that's a little seductive or a little weird, how that
maybe changes the way people think about art
or practice,” Callum Morton said of his unique artwork. .
Even EastLink Hotel even
has its own website
(https://www.eastlinkhotel.com.au/), although, of course, you can't book a room, it only offers more information about it.
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