First Runner Up: MORPHotel

Italian designer Gianluca Santosuosso crafted the MORPHotel as a luxury hotel concept where users have the opportunity to experience a stay in a floating system moving around the world. Thanks to a linear structure developed around its "vertebral spine," the MORPHotel is able to adapt its shape according to the weather conditions and the site morphology. Unlike traditional cruise ships, Santosuosso says the hotel is "constantly moving at slow speed around the world (following sea currents) and tourists can get on board wherever it is. While tourists on cruise ships depart from point A, reach their destination (point B), and then go back, in MORPHotel the segment A-B they experience is just a small part of the endless journey of the hotel.

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^{Stacy Shoemaker Rauen, (2012), 'going the distance', ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛, (August), pp.67-69}