Living in a futuristic utopia might be closer to reality than we realize. Brandan Siebrecht, a graduate architecture student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, revealed an ingenious hotel design that combines transport with accommodation. The concept aims to transform Elon Musk’s innovative Hyperloop One into a high-speed transit hotel. The Hyperloop Hotel shoots guests through tubes from city to city in a blink of an eye, all while never leaving their pod-like rooms. The concept enables travelers to manage everything from reservation, check-in and check-out from a device or a smartphone app. Basically, this futuristic transit system involves using magnets to levitate pods inside an airless tube, creating conditions in which the floating pods shuttle at near supersonic speeds. Guests would feel almost no sense of motion. The hotel concept uses sustainable, modular design in the form of shipping containers, all outfitted for luxury. Featuring customizable layout and design, each capsule includes an office, bedroom, bathroom and a living room. When arriving at destination, the shipping container “suite” simply docks to a modular hotel. 13 U.S. destinations Siebrecht’s proposal includes the following travel stations across the U.S.: Austin, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Nashville, Tenn.; New York; Portland, Ore.; San Francisco; Santa Fe, N.M.; Seattle; Washington, D.C. An award-winning hotel concept The Hyperloop Hotel is this year’s student winner of the Radical Innovation Awards, a competition for imaginative hotel designs, because it combines the comfort of a hotel with the convenience of speedy transportation, all in one. A jury of seven hotel investors, developers and architects selected Siebrecht’s idea out of over 65 submissions from 24 countries. The Radical Innovation team rewarded him $10,000 to develop the concept further. Costs and feasibility Siebrecht estimates each hotel will cost $10...