If a hotel is built in a forest, and no one can see it, does it still exist? Deep thoughts, guys.

Provoking us into epistemological crisis today is the Mirror Cube Tree Hotel, one of several airborne retreats (see: The Bird’s Nest, The Cabin, and The Blue Cone) that make up Tree Hotel, a Swedish company offering arcadian vacations with an architecturally-radical spin.

We’ve covered it several times in the past, but these new images of the Mirror Cube deserved their own post. Click through.

Designed by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, the Mirror Cube is supported both by the trunk it’s tethered to, and a series of tensioned wires connecting to surrounding trees. It’s accessed by a rope bridge that loops through the far-north forest, visible in the plan below. Write the architects, “a lightweight aluminium structure hung around a tree trunk, a 4x4x4 meters box clad in mirrored glass. The exterior reflects the surroundings and the sky, creating a camouflaged refuge. The interior is all made of plywood and the windows give a 360 degree view of the surroundings. To prevent birds colliding with the reflective glass, a transparent ultraviolet colour is laminated into the glass panes which are visible for birds only.”

by Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

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