The Electric Hotel

I DREAM of a visit to this wonderland…

“In the midst of an urban wasteland, crowded with jagged, thick-set metal cast-offs, there sits a chunk of elsewhere. Announcing itself as the Electric Hotel is a four-storey, glass-fronted building bejeweled with the sort of winking neon signs that entice passing tourists, preying on their naivety with glitter and dazzle. It’s almost as if the structure has been wrenched from its Costa del Sol or Copacabana foundations. Light and sound cue the start of a piece of total theatre, a beautiful, meditative and eerie exploration of isolation and violence seen through the eyes of voyeurs.”

“The hotel itself is built from six 40 foot high cube shipping containers which were all hacked apart to fit the floor to ceiling windows, stairwells and larger rooms. And although there is a well documented experience of shipping containers being turned into a variety of different buildings, there are few examples where the finished building then gets broken down into its component parts, driven across the country to get put together again in less than three days as the Electric Hotel has experienced now three times.”

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