Dive Brief:

• In Glåpen, Norway – off the beaten track but on one of the nation's 18 official tourist routes – architects based in Oslo and New York have designed a hotel and apartment building that bends around, riding the contours of the sparse bits of land on the coast.
• The firm, Snøhetta, plans a low-rise building of roughly 118,000 square feet that will maximize views to the sea on the south and west sides of the site on a spit of land.
• Snøhetta says in a statement that the goal is to have a project that feels "in the middle" of the area's features, sandwiched between sea and mountains.

Dive Insight:

This facility is supposed to include sea-water basins, an amphitheater and spas as it twists down a hillside. It is no doubt a dramatic location. It may be a place for string nerves in a storm, too.