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Stay onboard london's new river boat hotel.

Home newStay onboard london's new river boat hotel.

Stay onboard london's new river boat hotel.

Jan 16, 2012 | new |
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Images from david kohn | click > enlarge

Situated on the roof of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, A Room for London is a major new collaboration between Artangel and Living Architecture, in association with Southbank Centre. It is a one-bedroom installation, available for rent, designed by David Kohn Architects in collaboration with Fiona Banner. Apparently inspired by the steamer from Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” a novella set in the Congo in 1890. Artangel, a company that commissions unusual artwork, and Living Architecture, which rents homes, or in this case, rooms, of an equally unique nature, hosted a competition to “create a room with one of the most visible sites in the British capital, where up to two people at a time could spend a unique night in an exemplary landmark.”

Think of A Room for London like a pop-up hotel: it’s in a unique location (atop the Queen Elizabeth Hall) and it has a limited engagement: it’s only open for a year and guests can only stay for one night. It’s exclusive, but it’s not expensive. In fact, at about $185 it’s a pretty darn affordable stay for a London room with a Thames River view. Of course, that only means the wait list is going to run as long as the Thames River itself. If you’re lucky enough to nab a night, you’re invited to open up the room’s log book and “reflect upon what [you] see and hear during [your] one night stay, logging [your[ thoughts, observing cloud patterns, the character of the river and deeper undercurrents.” But if you just want to chuck your diary and get drunk in a cool hotel room, we won’t tell anyone.

Bookings for July through December 2012 go on sale January 19th.





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Perrin Drumm is nothing if not a road trip enthusiast. After moving from her hometown of LA to NY and to LA again, she hiked through half a dozen National Parks, snow-shoed a sizable portion of the Adirondacks, and resisted the overwhelming charm of the South to get back to Brooklyn, where she struggles to learn the trumpet, aspires to be a better Scrabble player, and lives and writes, and remains, as of yet, catless.

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