Philippe Starck has revealed plans to build a 14-storey hotel in the French city of Metz, with an 18th-century-style house on the roof.
The French designer was commissioned to design the "habitable, surreal and poetic work of art" by the Hilton Group, to operate under the Curio Collection brand.

In an arrangement that Starck describes as phantasmagoric, a traditional regional home will be placed on top of a monolithic and monochromatic hotel tower containing 119 rooms and suites.
"This project is an out-of-scale phantasmagoric architecture. It's a game about uprooted roots, a symbolic construction of Lorraine", said Starck.
The house, which will contain a "poetic restaurant and lounge bar", will be surrounded by a rooftop terrace and garden.
Designed to resonate with the nearby Centre Pompidou Metz, designed by Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines, the hotel will be located in Metz's recently developed Quartier de l'Amphitheatre.
"Metz is going through a revival," said Dominique Gros, mayor of Metz. "The opening of the Centre Pompidou Metz and the wider Quartier de l'Amphitheatre redevelopment is attracting investment and drawing household names such as Philippe Starck and Curio Collection by Hilton."
"It's great to see projects of this caliber come to Metz and there are exciting times ahead for the city," he added.

Patrick Fitzgibbon, senior vice president, development EMEA at Hilton added: "Maison He...