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Treehotel
Harads, Sweden · Treehotel · Accessible Luxury
Eight treehouses hang four to ten metres up in a pine forest at Harads, Swedish Lapland, each by a different architect: Snohetta's 7th Room, Tham and Videgard's mirrored Mirrorcube, Rintala Eggertsson's Dragonfly, Bjarke Ingels's Biosphere wrapped in bird nests. Kent and Britta Lindvall dreamed it up on a fishing trip after the film The Tree Lover.
- 8 rooms
- Opened 2010
- Architect: Multiple, including Tham & Videgard, Snohetta, Bertil Harstrom, Cyren & Cyren, Sandellsandberg, Rintala Eggertsson; BIG
About Treehotel
- It opened in 2010, inspired by Jonas Selberg Augustsen's film The Tree Lover. The adjacent guesthouse is a restored early-20th-century retirement home.
- The eight tree rooms include the Mirrorcube, Bird's Nest, UFO, Blue Cone, Cabin, Dragonfly, Snohetta's 7th Room (2016), and BIG's Biosphere (2022).
- Biosphere's facade holds hundreds of bird nests. Britta's Pensionat is the breakfast house on the ground.
History
Treehotel opened in 2010 in the forests of Harads, in Swedish Lapland near the Lule River, founded by Kent and Britta Lindvall and inspired by the Swedish film 'The Tree Lover' (Tradalskaren). Its adjacent guesthouse is a restored former retirement home dating from the early 20th century, while the hotel itself is a collection of individually designed tree rooms suspended several metres above the forest floor.
Each tree room was created by a leading Scandinavian architect or studio, including Tham & Videgard (the Mirrorcube), Bertil Harstrom (the Bird's Nest and the UFO), Cyren & Cyren (the Cabin), Sandellsandberg (the Blue Cone), Rintala Eggertsson (the Dragonfly, 2013), Snohetta (the 7th Room, 2016) and BIG / Bjarke Ingels (the Biosphere, 2022). The result is a globally celebrated design destination that has drawn architecture enthusiasts and high-profile guests to the Arctic north.
The setting
In a pine forest at Harads, Swedish Lapland, near the Lule River. Lulea is the town; this is the trees, not a lakeside spa.
Amenities
- Sauna
- Hot tub
- Water sports
- Pet-friendly
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