Patrick Blanc, a botanist and a pioneer of the vertical garden (whose own house in the suburbs of Paris includes growing walls and an aquarium floor), has designed or inspired living walls for the New York Botanical Garden and a luxury apartment building in Sydney, among dozens of businesses, homes, schools and museums, whose walls whisper and bloom.
Back in Dubai Mall, there's a huge aquarium, floor to ceiling with one of the largest tanks in the world at 51 m x 20m x 11m, where people scuba dive and swim amidst the fish.
Stuff reports that aquarium staff found tracks suggesting that the football-sized octopus, Inky, climbed through a gap at the top of his enclosure, treaded across the wet aquarium floor, and squeezed his body through a six inch-wide pipe that headed back into the sea.
Stones were spread on the floor of the experimental aquarium to ensure that the aquarium floor and the animations shown on the computer screens were at the same height.
The Tatiana Grill has an aquarium dance floor in which dozens of large koi swim under your dancing feet.
With modern furniture, a built in aquarium and floor to ceiling windows, as well as a private rooftop, it is a warm inviting space conducive to hosting the healthy-focused dinner parties that his client Sarah, founder of Holistically Slim Movement, hosts with the help of the culinary creations by Chef Charles.
The next, they're standing in the lobby of a hotel staring up at two giant gold giraffes that flank a marble staircase in front of them, as fish swim in an aquarium in the floor beneath their feet.
Mark Collier, who owns Custom Marine Aquaria in Scottsdale, Ariz., once built a 30-foot-long aquarium into the floor of someone's game room, which contained a pool table, big-screen TV and "water wall" that gave the illusion that water was cascading into the aquarium (it wasn't).
Today, the fortress houses an aquarium on the ground floor, stocked with fishes from various parts of the Adriatic Sea.
Houdini or not, General's antics pale in comparison to Inky, a football-sized octopus who somehow managed to climb out of his aquarium, tread across the floor, and squish his body through a six-inch pipe to return to the sea last year.
And then, in the midday heat out on the end of the first Palm island, a guide tells her tour group that the launch party they threw on this spot last year for the Atlantis, a £1bn, 1,539-room pink-crenellated monstrosity with its own 65,000-fish aquarium and a top-floor suite that costs £13,000 a night, included a fireworks display so big it could be seen from the moon.
