Panama City’s Eco-Luxe Tantalo Hotel has a Two Story Living Wall and Artist Designed Rooms

<a href="http://www.tantalohotel.com/" target="_blank">Tantalo Hotel</a> in Panama City is the latest eco-luxe hotel chock full of art, repurposed furniture and sustainable design. The <a href="http://inhabitat.com/swedens-luxurious-hotel-furillen-is-set-within-a-renovated-limestone-refinery/" target="_blank">boutique hotel</a> brightens a corner in the Casco Viejo neighborhood, and features a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/torontos-corus-quay-building-boasts-a-5-story-living-wall-and-indoor-slide/" target="_blank">two story living wall</a> in the hotel’s daylit atrium. Coupled with a rooftop bar and artist-designed rooms, the Tantalo is a welcome hot spot for luxury eco-tourism.

The hotel’s incredible living wall is stocked full of lush native plants- 983 different species to be exact. The wall, which was installed by <a href="http://www.aqua-terra.ws" target="_blank">Aqua Terra</a>, is irrigated by recycled rainwater that is collected from the skylights which flood natural light into the atrium.

Visitors can enjoy the <a href="http://inhabitat.com/edible-stone34-complex-to-sprout-up-in-seattle/" target="_blank">living wall</a> from the lobby, or some lucky guests can get up close and personal with a view right form their rooms.

In the lobby below, guests relax at tables made from <a href="http://inhabitat.com/case-of-bass-turns-vintage-suitcases-into-travel-themed-boomboxes/" target="_blank">repurposed suitcases</a>, while sipping on native cocktails.

The Tantalo Kitchen restaurant and rooftop bar were both built from reclaimed wood from the Panama Canal, tying in a sense of history with their sustainable mission. Recycled newspapers and phonebooks keep the hotel nice and cool, functioning as insulation in the structural walls.

<a href="http://inhabitat.com/hotel-aliah-is-a-sustainable-luxury-hotel-complex-for-the-2014-world-cup/" target="_blank">With sustainability, Tantalo also brings luxury</a>, with a deep tissue massage included with each of the 13 guest rooms! Each is hand decorated by a local Panama artist, making the Tantalo a hotel-meets-art gallery. <a href="http://inhabitat.com/ben-long-etches-beautiful-reverse-graffiti-drawings-in-exhaust-grime-on-commercial-trucks/" target="_blank">Graffiti </a>and wall pieces continue throughout the hotel, creating a relationship between art, tourism and sustainability.

The beautiful wooden <a href="http://inhabitat.com/super-low-impact-straw-bale-cafe-built-from-local-materials-in-the-uk/" target="_blank">rooftop bar</a> offers sweeping views of the ultra modern Panama City, while offering artisan local cocktails and a chance to dance the night away.