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DRAINPIPE REAMS. DASPARKHOTEL.

Business Day (South Africa)

| January 12, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Johnnic Communications. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

DASPARKHOTEL DRAINPIPE DREAMS IT COULD be a contender for the world's weirdest hotel, as dasparkhotel, next to the Danube near Linz, Austria, provides its guests with accommodation in drainpipes. Andreas Strauss, who came up with the idea, buys them from concrete factories around Europe. Strauss told an international architecture magazine that the concept came from his own needs for easy access and minimal accommodation. He also wrote in an article that he prefers to work with ready-made structures which can be re-used in different ways and he likes the fact that if the hotel is closed, it can become drainpipes …

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