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Now it’s really getting to be summer. The weather forecasts predict hot days ahead. If you don’t always want to visit the same swimming pool to cool off, or if you think that your favourite swimming pool really does have more than enough people going swimming, then here are a few practical tips on where cool water awaits you.

Very close to the famous burial site of Mada’in Salih in Saudi Arabia, Jean Nouvel submerged a special kind of resort inside a mountain. For the construction, he hollowed out the rocks and uses the incoming sun to create a dance of light and shadow. The online magazine baunetz interior|design recently reported on this fascinating project.

Bamboo is still a little-known building material here. However, an article we recently found in the online magazine “Collosal” shows that it can be used to create stunningly beautiful buildings. A glowing welcome center of interlaced bamboo stands at the entrance of the resort Grand World Phu Quoc in Vietnam is certainly an impressive example thereof.