Yesterday we showed you one of our favorite "real" bathrooms from our very first house tour. Today we're highlighting one of our favorite fantasy bathrooms, from our stay at the amazing Hotel Puerta America Madrid. Each floor of the hotel was realized by one of 12 different designers, offering you 12 different aesthetic experiences to choose from. We chose Zaha Hadid's all-white, thermoformed Corian cave...
Zaha Hadid Fantasy Bathroom
Hotel Puerta America Madrid, Spain
This is one of those spaces that reminds us of a dream world — walls, floor, and ceiling flowing seamlessly into one another with only soft gradients of light and shadow to distinguish each new surface. The softness of the Corian creates a warm, silky cave, irresistible to the touch. While this entire hotel room is wrapped in the same continuous, thermoformed surface, we love the idea of this bathroom existing inside of a "real" house — you know, with walls different from the floors and actual corners. Then, when you entered the bathroom, it would really feel like crossing over into a dream.
For more on this modern architecture funhouse of a hotel, check out this flickr pool.
Last image via Hoteles Silken, Hotel Puerta America Madrid, Spain.
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view thedeanery.'s profile
It's all fun and games until someone actually uses it.
view molly k's profile
Only the last photo gives any idea what it's actually like. Intriguing in terms of the shapes--sculpturally exciting--but all that white is kind of nightmarish to me. Sort of like I'd died and got stuck in limbo. (Or would that be gray?)
view Spotsalots's profile
I would hate to be the poor person who cleans that room.
view dennisd's profile
Those photographs did nothing for the space. The first 3 pictures were just abstract photography.
view Comicgeek's profile
A couple comments, based on the replies...
We stayed here and used the bathroom, it was very functional and would be way easier to clean than a normal bathroom. There are no corners, seams, or grout, anywhere. Corian is super easy to clean, not that we cleaned the bathroom but you could pretty much hose down the entire bathroom.
The pictures do everything to show the space... it is abstract space and a very small bathroom. The second picture is looking straight at the tub, hardly abstract photography.
view Wesfs33's profile
lovely... but JEEZE!! Try cleaning that thing!!
view wampler's profile
Why do people think THIS would be hard to clean? It's practically seamless and there are no tight corners. Just mop it and wipe it dry and you're done.
Looks far, far easier to clean than a conventional bathroom, with all of its tight, dust collecting corners and nooks, not to mention tile grout and other gunk collectors.
view sunspot42's profile
I think it's terrific. And I agree that it would be super easy to clean. I dislike grouted tile in the bathroom (or anywhere, actually).
view SunnyBlue's profile
Awesome.
THX 1138, anyone?
view machete's profile
I stayed at the hotel and used the bathroom as well. Absolutely amazing space... it was a pleasure being in this bathroom. However there are a few flaws...
The washbasin is extremelt shallow and the location/ choice of the spout results in the water splashing everywhere.
Secondly the bathtub can fit two people but the shape of it makes the volume area of it quite large... which means filling it can take 3 times longer than your average bathtub.
There is no space for products etc which is a bit annoying. Wouldn't want a bathroom like this at home but its a great experience for a couple of nights at a hotel...
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