After a night in the one functioning hotel, I drove a few miles down the rutted road to Kabul.
But relief is at hand from the artist Allen Ruppersberg, hero of the Los Angeles avant-garde, who created a fully functioning hotel in 1971 that's been restaged here as part of Frieze's noncommercial programme.
If your space is clean and well-maintained, you can transform it, essentially, into a functioning hotel space with relatively little additional work.
"To the best of our knowledge, the building has been operated almost exclusively as a pub in recent years and has few of the requirements of a functioning hotel.
Budnschuh envisions the final product as a "mini-resort," which will include a fully functioning hotel, a health-oriented casual diner called The Farm Fresh Café, a live music and entertainment space called The Falls Music Lounge, and the highly anticipated Bloom Nightclub.
The artist surrounded a statue of Queen Victoria in Liverpool, England, with a temporary functioning hotel; created a one-room apartment over the roof of a 14th-century cathedral — enclosing a bronze, angel-shaped weather vane — in Basel, Switzerland; and built a temporary hotel suite around the Merlion fountain in Singapore.
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Most of the service corridors and former servants' sitting rooms are turned over to the operations of a fully functioning modern hotel, with waiters and chefs scurrying past the stacks of firewood used in the great hall, and unused foldaway beds.
The authorities also have agreed to spend $414m on upgrading ports where cruise ships could function as hotels.
The 90 houses and cottages function as hotel and time-share.
