Gensler design the new Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Dubai
Gensler was commissioned to design a new Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Dubai, to be located in the heart of the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC). Given the importance of the site, it was essential the design had a strong sense of identity, reflected the Ritz’s longstanding tradition and complemented the DIFC urban design, also by Gensler. The building will be adjacent to the DIFC Gate building and connected to it by a retail arcade.
The five star, 340 key hotel also includes 124 executive serviced apartments and 323 luxury branded apartments. The 14 story building is linked to the apartment building by a full-height atrium. Underground is an extensive three-story car park. The traditional stone facade will be complemented by lush landscaped gardens including a sunken garden overlooked by the restaurants and bars, water features and shaded terrace areas. Amenities include business centers and ballrooms, two restaurants and two bars, a health suite and spa and retail accommodation. Tennis courts, a gymnasium, swimming pool and sun decks complete the recreational facilities. Completion is scheduled for late 2008.
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More than just a spectacle, Dubai is positioning itself to become one of the world’s preeminent cultural and economic capitals.
The megacity of Dubai, one of the seven federal states of the United Arab Emirates, will be the new economic and cultural capital of the world, spanning its neighboring emirates of Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and beyond in one urbanized mass, rich in the biggest source of renewable energy—sunlight—a pioneer in sustainability and new technology, and conveniently located within easy travel distance of a population of more than two billion in the Middle East, Europe, India, and Africa. In the six years since the Twin Towers fell, a thousand skyscrapers have been rising on the Arabian Gulf.
But for the real substance behind the city you have to look beyond the spectacle of its thousand skyscrapers, malls, resorts, islands, and theme parks to the scale of its land-use patterns as manifested in the hundred or so individually master-planned residential, commercial, financial, and industrial districts.
The more than $310 billion in total construction under way or planned over the next decade includes not just mountains of curtain-walled skyscrapers and the over-the-top theme parks that have become patented clichés of Delirious Dubai, but a financial center, an academic hub, an information-technology center, a free media zone, and a minicity devoted to the worldwide distribution of humanitarian aid, as well as environmentally friendly projects such as self-powered buildings, a solar water-desalinization plant, a subway, and a light-rail system. The tourist spectacles are great publicity and a growing part of the economy, but they’re mainly distractions from the serious business happening here. The doubling in size of Jebel Ali port, the building of a new international airport, and the launch of the Dubai stock market two years ago are more telling signs of Dubai’slong-term goal of positioning itself as the central economic hub between London and Singapore.
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