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Article: Submarine dream.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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Design of the interior of a new hotel on a remote island in the North Sea draws on the floating drifting forms of marine flora and fauna.
The two islands of Heligoland, lying 70km from the mouth of the Elbe, are a three hour hydroplane ride from Hamburg. For such minute, isolated specks of flat red rock (the main one is one mile long, at most one-third of a mile wide) they have had an extremely interesting history.
Supporting a spa and a fishing community, Heligoland was passed during the nineteenth century from Denmark to Britain which gave it to Germany (in exchange for Zanzibar). As a German possession during both world wars, it was an important ...