Oil Rigs Become Luxury Hotels [Architecture]

a good idea! should cost of refitting one of those rigs should be less than building one offshore hotel structure.

...it's only a "good idea" until the first category-5 hurricane passes through their area.

...is anybody prepared to evacuate everyone each time a hurricane pops up? Imagine the lawsuits if they didn't and someone dies!?!

I thought these rigs survived the tempests that went through them. The refurbishment work should include reinforcement, with greatly improved safety features that will ensure no guest falls off the rig accidentally.

Evac? Same method the rig owners used. If they were prepared for such eventuality, so should these new "hotel" owners be.

Do Cat-5 hurricanes occur every week, or every month?

Lawsuits? These types of hotels are only for the high risk-takers, with a death wish. It won't be difficult to have them sign a waiver clause either.

How have things turned out for the Pirate Radio Stations that located on old rigs in the North Sea? Believe one declared itself a country. Wonder what really would make these places attractive destinations. Gambling and women made Las Vegas attractive for instance, out in the Desert. Are these rigs out there along ship routes where ships might stop for R&R? What seaplanes in connection with this sort of thing would be fun to apply? I think that Seaplanes have been more ignored than they really ought to be. Personally I hate the idea that everything radical is supposed to also be exclusive.

The last free American holdout. Spend your deflated federal reserve notes at the American Dubai free union (gold and silver accepted). Constitutional Common law only, Statutes prohibited. No Tariffs, Taxes, or attorneys please.

A very good idea but not practical enough to be done....

In this world, my friend, it is often the less 'practicle' things that do get done. If there is money to be made someone will do it and once they have done it suckers will come.

you hit the nail right on the head, Shade.

man is an insatiable creature. people today crave for "new" and "strange" ways of getting fun. who'd have thought bungee jumping or extreme games would become common?

space tourism? Virgin is working on a space pad in the UAE that will offer space flight (at a price that only kings and the filthy rich can afford, of course). beats the mile-high experience, wouldn't it?

a hotel out in the ocean? that'd be way out cool. and Dubai-esque, at that.