<strong>Living the high life:</strong> Stockholm Arlanda Airport has teamed up with vacation rental company HomeAway and Swedavia to create a luxury apartment in the airport's disused flight control tower.
Living the high life: Stockholm Arlanda Airport has teamed up with vacation rental company HomeAway and Swedavia to create a luxury apartment in the airport's disused flight control tower.
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<strong>360-degree views:</strong> This disused tower is now home to a spacious, bright space -- complete with luxury trimmings and 360 views of the runways below.
360-degree views: This disused tower is now home to a spacious, bright space -- complete with luxury trimmings and 360 views of the runways below.
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<strong>Prize winners:</strong> Stays at the Arlanda tower being offered as prizes in a competition.<br />Five winners -- and their guests -- will get to spend a night in the apartment, followed by a further three nights at a HomeAway rental of their choice.
Prize winners: Stays at the Arlanda tower being offered as prizes in a competition.
Five winners -- and their guests -- will get to spend a night in the apartment, followed by a further three nights at a HomeAway rental of their choice.
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<strong>Scani design</strong><strong>:</strong> Swedish multimedia artist-designer Cilla Ramnek is the brains behind the Scandi-cool, minimalistic design.
Scani design: Swedish multimedia artist-designer Cilla Ramnek is the brains behind the Scandi-cool, minimalistic design.
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<strong>Blue skies: </strong>Living the high life: Ramnek has designed a 1960s gray-scale color scheme. The chic design is complemented by pops of color and blue skies glimpsed through the floor to ceiling windows.
Blue skies: Living the high life: Ramnek has designed a 1960s gray-scale color scheme. The chic design is complemented by pops of color and blue skies glimpsed through the floor to ceiling windows.
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<strong>Natural furnishings:</strong> "This is by far among the most fun environment I have ever worked with," says Ramnek. "I am inspired by the place itself with its special conditions and then the furnishing comes naturally."
Natural furnishings: "This is by far among the most fun environment I have ever worked with," says Ramnek. "I am inspired by the place itself with its special conditions and then the furnishing comes naturally."
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<strong>Aviation extras:</strong> Winners will also get to a take a trip up to the balcony of the airport's new flight tower -- the perfect trip for any aviation geek.
Aviation extras: Winners will also get to a take a trip up to the balcony of the airport's new flight tower -- the perfect trip for any aviation geek.
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<strong>French connection:</strong> HomeAway are renowned for transforming inventive spaces -- in 2016, the company transformed the Eiffel Tower's unused conference room into a luxury apartment, pictured here, which was also available to rent through a competition.
French connection: HomeAway are renowned for transforming inventive spaces -- in 2016, the company transformed the Eiffel Tower's unused conference room into a luxury apartment, pictured here, which was also available to rent through a competition.
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Inside the air traffic control tower turned luxury apartment
CNN  — 

Spending the night at an airport isn’t usually an aspirational sleeping arrangement.

That was before someone transformed the original flight control tower at Stockholm Arlanda Airport into a luxury apartment.

The disused tower is now home to a spacious, bright space complete with panoramic views of the runways below.

1960s chic

The airport control tower is now a chic, minimalistic apartment space.
The airport control tower is now a chic, minimalistic apartment space.
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Arlanda has partnered with vacation rental company HomeAway and Swedavia to reinvent the 80-meter-high tower as a destination that’ll appeal to aviation geeks, design freaks – pretty much everyone else.

Swedish multimedia artist Cilla Ramnek is the brains behind the aparment’s Scandi-cool, minimalistic look.

Ramnek has designed a 1960s gray-scale color scheme. The chic design is complemented by pops of color and blue skies glimpsed through the floor to ceiling windows.

Watch the workings of the runway from above.
Watch the workings of the runway from above.
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“This is by far among the most fun environment I have ever worked with,” says Ramnek. “I am inspired by the place itself with its special conditions and then the furnishing comes naturally.”

Most of the products incorporated into the apartment are available for purchase inside Arlanda.

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One night only

Only a lucky few will get to send a night here.
Only a lucky few will get to send a night here.
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Stays in Arlanda’s tower are being offered as competition prizes.

Five winners – and their guests – will get to spend a night in the apartment, followed by a further three nights at a HomeAway rental of their choice.

“It feels great to be able to offer international guests the opportunity to experience this hidden secret at Stockholm Arlanda. At the same time, we see this as an opportunity to showcase what we have to offer here at Scandinavia′s fastest growing airport,” says Kjell-?ke Westin, Airport Director at Stockholm Arlanda.

Winners will also get to a take a trip up to the balcony of the airport’s new flight tower and enjoy a meal at airport restaurant Pontus in the Air, owned by acclaimed Swedish chef Pontus Frithiof.

In 2016, HomeAway transformed a disused space in the Eiffel Tower into a luxury apartment.
In 2016, HomeAway transformed a disused space in the Eiffel Tower into a luxury apartment.
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HomeAway are renowned for making use of inventive spaces – in 2016, the company transformed the Eiffel Tower’s unused conference room into a luxury apartment.

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