Photo Gallery Take a Break 21st-Century Style

At the end of 2009 an underwater area will be opened at the Poseidon Hotel on Fiji. It will have 24 aquarium-encased suites...

...an underwater diving center and a golf course with nine holes.

No more boxy little rooms: The team of researchers has come up with an organically formed room design.

Atlantis Hotel in Dubai, complete with a huge aquarium.

Sketches of the Waterworld project in Songjiang, China.

It can only be reached by boat or helicopter. The designs for the Apeiron Island Hotel in Dubai, to be built 300 meters off the coastline.

Entrance to the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden. Every winter the hotel has to be rebuilt.

The guests relax at temperatures of minus five degrees in minimally furnished rooms. Reindeer skins adorn the beds...

Vodka is served in ice glasses in the bar.

The ice clock sculpture on the hotel wall.

The rooms look a little different each year.