West Baden Atrium

We originally were

going to get an outside room

but I then decided to splurge

and get an atrium balcony one

I am glad we decided on this

The atrium is the main focus

of the resort.

View from the upper

parking lot

 

walking towards the valet station

 

When you walk in from the 

valet desk you

walk through the 

circle area where on the 1st floor

all of the shops, restaurants, bars 

lobby and amenities are

the second doorway goes into the atrium

 guest rooms are built in two concentric circles

 around the atrium on the second through fifth floors. 

Rooms on the inner ring overlooked the atrium; 

Some of the 4th and 6th floor rooms

 have balconies into the atrium

 

  

the rooms on the outer ring 

have a countryside view

 

In the morning the dome:

 

The tiles are 1 in squares - 12 million of them

 

 originally they coverd the whole atrium

but because the place sat unused for so many years

many were ruined

 We spent a lot of time 

people watching from our balcony

 

At night the atrium looked

completely different

The dome spans 200 ft 

 

 The fireplace in the atrium 

is so large it can accommodate

 logs as long as 14 feet

The colors of the disk

changed with the help

 of a computer program

These photos

can't even begin to show

the beauty of the atrium