Pursuits
From Oil Rig to Luxury Resort
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Think "oil rig" and what comes to mind? Deafening noise, pounding seas, people covered in black muck and ugly metal structures? Perhaps even explosions and Red Adair, but it's unlikely "luxury resort" popped into your head. However, thousands of decommissioned platforms in the Gulf of Mexico could in future be given a new lease of life as exclusive, self-sufficient eco-resorts for those looking for a new holiday experience.
Morris Architects program to turn a disused rig into a high-end resort experience won them the $10,000 Grand Prize in the Radical Innovation in Hospitality awards.