Atlantis Paradise Island
— — pink towers held above turquoise water.
Not only on a wall.
“The pink coral towers on Paradise Island, across the bridge from Nassau. The resort opened in stages from 1994 under Sol Kerzner, with the arched Royal Towers added in 1998 and the Aquaventure waterpark and its near-vertical Mayan Temple slide following across the next decade. The reef behind the resort is a working aquarium, the largest open-air saltwater habitat in the Caribbean. from the studio
Atlantis Paradise Island, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Atlantis Paradise Island is a resort and marine park on Paradise Island, a thin barrier island off the north shore of New Providence in The Bahamas. Two road bridges connect it to Nassau, the national capital, two kilometres to the south. The complex opened in 1994 under Sun International and Sol Kerzner and expanded with the Royal Towers in 1998, the Cove and the Reef in 2007, and the Aquaventure waterpark across the same years. The site sits on what was once the small fishing settlement of Hog Island.
The marine habitat behind the resort holds about fourteen million litres of saltwater across more than twenty connected exhibits, the largest open-air aquarium in the Caribbean. Around fifty thousand animals from about 250 species live in it, including hammerheads, sawfish, and Atlantic stingrays. The Predator Lagoon runs a transparent acrylic tube through the shark population, and the Ruins Lagoon is themed as a sunken city. Seawater enters from the open ocean and cycles through filtration before returning out to the reef.
The resort is open in every season, and most of it requires a room booking, a day pass, or a dining reservation to enter. The Aquaventure waterpark holds eleven slides and a kilometre-long river ride; the Mayan Temple slide drops near-vertical through a clear tube inside a shark tank. Dolphin Cay, on the east end, runs ticketed swim sessions. Atlantic hurricane season runs June through November, with the highest risk in September; the resort closed for ten weeks after Hurricane Dorian in 2019.