Meydan City is a 200 million sq ft project in Dubai separated into four distinct areas including the Racecourse with Meydan Hotel (67 million sq ft); Meydan Horizons (15 million sq ft); Godolphin Park and Meydan Metropolis. According to the report, the racecourse sector was completed and the rest has gone to construction tender ignoring the recent economic difficulties. Many of the main building projects were designed by Teo A. Khing from Malaysia.
Designed by X-Architect, the floating houseboat sited at Dubai Marina, Dubai. This leisure home is built on top of two catamaran beams to make it stable, and the whole building covers 220 sqm of floor area mixing the use of a concealed kitchen, living room, an informal dining area, bedrooms, bathroom, steering cabin, and terrace.
The first refrigerated beach in the world will be built at the new Palazzo Versace hotel in Dubai. This luxury hotel doesn’t want the sand to burn its rich visitors. Expected to open late next year or early 2010, the hotel will put a system of heat-absorbing pipes and giant wind blowers under the sand.
The latest residential tower sited at Dubai Waterfront named ‘The Atrium’ is expected for completion in 2013. The tower will stand at 278 metres and has 68 floors above the ground and 3 floor under the ground. Designed by American based architects Pickard Chiltern, the Atrium features glass cladding and mixes the function of apartments, jacuzzi, gymnasium, swimming pools, coffee shops, restaurants and some …
Dubai continue shocking the world of architecture with never ending stories. Now they launched the Dubai Art District to facilitate media industry, the project is expected to be completed in 2011. Sited in Dubai’ IMPZ the project covers 26 hectares offering mix-used function includes residential, commercial, and community buildings.
David Marks, Managing Director of Marks Barfield, the creators of the London Eye, responsible for the design of the 11 residential buildings in the district, comments: “This bespoke development will be a first-of-its-kind arts precinct project in Dubai and is intended to attract design-conscious purchasers seeking a quality environment.”
Designed by L-A-V-A (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture), the Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower was unveiled recently as the first project of a series of branded towers. What next, may be Bill Gates Tower or Burj Christano Ronaldo? I hope the latest one. Expected to be completed in June 2011, the construction of this aerodynamic tower will start next year.
The building features an iconic silhouette and a facade characterised by vertical slots with private balconies. A series of reflective fins generates a vertical dynamic and gives the building a constantly changing appearance. The fins track the sun, control the solar shading and dissolve the rationality of the plan into a continuously evolving building volume. The facade’s continuous surface enables curvature with a lot of repetition and the potential for standardisation in the building process. State-of-the-art engineering an innovative materials will be used to achieve a fully sustainable performance.
Sited at Dubai Marina, the 23 Marina residential tower is expected to top out in early 2009. When finished, it could be the world’s first tower with 57 swimming pools in a single building. Consisting of 288 apartments, this building is being developed by Hircon International.
23 Marina is a 395 metre tall residential building, now under construction, that will rise 89 floors above ground. It�s been designed by the International Building Centre with roughly octagonal floorplates and a 64 metre tall spire above the main structure that helps turn it into what looks like a giant pencil with typical Dubaiesque cladding of blue and white.
Dubai, the never ending stories, now has new shocking news for the rest of us. One of the world’s largest fountain will be built in the country by Emaar Properties. The fountain project will spent $218 million and expected to begin operating next year.
The fountains will shoot 22,000 gallons of water in the air at any given moment and feature over 6,600 lights and 50 colour projectors.
