Treehotel sits in the small village of Harads in Swedish Lapland, in tall pine forest above the Lule River, a landscape hotel where each room is a treeroom suspended four to ten metres above the ground. There are nine treerooms, each designed by a different Nordic architect, from the mirrored Mirrorcube and the spherical Biosphere by Bjarke Ingels Group to the Bird’s Nest, the UFO, the Snohetta-designed 7th Room and the Blue Cone, reached by ramp, bridge or stairs.
A short walk away, the historic 1930s Guesthouse holds reception and the restaurant, where head chef Linus Lejon cooks hyper-local, microseasonal Swedish Lapland dishes, from a gastronomic tasting menu to a three-course dinner, with wine pairings. There is a bookable forest spa experience rather than a full spa. The setting is built for the outdoors, with northern-lights hunts and bonfire evenings, dog sledding, moose and reindeer safaris, snowmobiling and ice fishing in winter, and kayaking, foraging and midnight-sun paddling in summer. It suits couples and design and nature-minded travellers who want a bucket-list architecture-and-aurora stay in the Arctic.