(ORDO NEWS) — The EastLink Hotel is located off the motorway outside of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria. What looks like a high-rise hotel is actually just an unusual sculpture.
The EastLink Hotel, designed by local artist Callum Morton, opened in 2007 and has been baffling motorists ever since.
It’s not that big, 20m high, 12m wide and 5m thick, but when driving past it for the first time, it’s really hard to tell, so it’s no surprise that people actually search for it online and call to book.
To further confuse the situation, lights are on in some windows at night, making it appear that some rooms are occupied.
But there are no rooms here, and the building itself cannot be entered, because it is all a sculpture created solely for decorative purposes.
“Motorists will look at it from the car as a real hotel, and perhaps over time as an oddly reduced prop that didn’t make it to a theme park or film set,” says artist Callum Morton, who described the concept for this project in early 2000- x years.
And now, almost two decades later, his creation still excites the minds of people passing the Eastlink toll road in Melbourne’s Dandenong district.
At first, a large rectangular building with a big red sign on top seems quite normal, but then you start to realize that it is not as imposing as it should be, and that it is located in the middle of a barren field, and that’s when everything starts to confuse. But it’s all by design…
“I think it’s quite interesting how to put something in a space that is a little bit seductive or a little weird, how that maybe changes people’s idea of art or practice,” said Callum Morton of his unique piece of art.
Earlier we talked about a unique ice hotel that can host guests all year round. It was built in Swedish Lapland near the city of Kiruna, two hundred kilometers from the Arctic Circle.
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