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Meydan City Metropolis

P-17 Tower / Hard Rock Hotel Dubai

The Icon Hotel

Hotel in planning for Dubai Promenade, preparation on site has begun but is currently on hold.

Flanking the iconic ring-shaped hotel are the twin wave-like structures of the Wing apartments. Together, these buildings envelope a coved beachfront open only to residents.

Developer:    Nakheel  

The Pad

Building construction was started, but project is currently on hold.

The world's first cybertecture apartment tower and region's most technologically advanced building.

Every apartment will be intelligent and has its own Cybertecture that covers everything from communication, entertainment to shopping.

Floors:   24

Construction:   2008 - ?

Developer:   Omniyat Properties

Architects:   James Law Cybertecture


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The Wave Tower

Under planning for Dubai Waterfront in Dubai, UAE.

The tower will contain a water purification plant. It will desalinate and purify the surrounding sea water and then be filtered and allocated for drinking water, landscape maintenance and sewage. The building is also said to boast “state of the art sustainable technologies” to minimize energy consumption and maximize water efficiency.

The base has the form of a pointed arch with smooth bends, imitating the shape of the waves.

Mixed Use (Retail, Office, Residential)

Height:   370m

Floors:   92

Architects:   A-Cero

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Museum of Middle Eastern Modern Art

To be located on the banks of Khor Dubai in Culture Village.
Commissioned by His Highness Sheik Mohammed.

The futuristic, elegant form is sleek and bold in its massing leaning over passers-by as though it were the bow of an enormous ship.

 Surface location:    25,000 m²

Architects:   UN Studio


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ETA Hotel

Small boutique business hotel with 68 rooms, a restaurant and lounge bar, health club, and a roof top pool.


The concept of the hotel is evolved from the abstraction of trapezoidal planes that constitute the outer skin of the hotel. The trapezoidal planes fold out from a 6.0 M high entrance lobby accentuating it, before undulating along all sides vertically upwards, until it folds back creating a roof top health club and pool area.

This concrete skin is punctuated by a graphical composition of geometric openings derived from an Islamic motif thus relating it to the city heritage while creating a unique sculptural form.

Architect:    Sanjay Puri

Beach Front Hotel

Proposal for a new hotel in Jumeirah Beach.

The tower comprises of 60 levels of luxurious guest rooms, serviced apartments, royal suites, presidential suites and triplex apartment.

The tower seats on a 6-storey podium that has a cylindrical glass tower jutting out of its elliptical roof. It houses the all day dining restaurant, speciality restaurant, lounges, conference and banqueting facilities, health club and spa facilities.

Floor count:   60

Height:   302m

Architect:   Atkins & Partners

The Sixth Crossing

Also know as Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Crossing.

Once completed it will become the world's longest arch bridge.

The bridge will link the localities of Al Jaddaf and Dubai Creek. It will have six lanes of traffic in each direction and will be able to carry 20,000 vehicles per hour. In the center will be a track for Dubai's Metro.

Scheduled Completion:   2012

Lenght:   1.6km
Height:   205m
Weight:    64m

Architects:   FXFOWLE Architects

Iris Bay

Under construction in Buisness Bay.

The front of the tower is covered by semi-transparent photovoltaic glass panels.

Construction:   2007  -  2011

Floor count:   32

Height:   170m

Architects:   WS Atkins & Partners


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Nakheel  Harbour & Tower

Was a propose super-tall structure that got cancelled in 2009.

Nakheel Tower  was to be more than a kilometre high and so be 200 meters higher than the Burj Khalifa.

The tower would have had more than 200 floors and 150 elevators.

Apart from the Nakheel Tower there were also going to be another 40 towers ranging in height from 20 floors to 90 floors (250 meters to 350 meters).

The project was to take in excess of 10 years to complete, but completion was to be phased, with various stages coming on line much earlier.

The project was to cover an area over 270 hectares including the world’s only inner city harbour.   

Nakheel Harbour & Tower was to be home to more than 55,000 people and a work place for more than 45,000 people

There were going to be more than 19,000 residential apartments with a diverse mix of housing – from affordable family homes to exclusive villas and penthouses.

950,000 m2 of commercial and retail space.

There were going to be more than 3,500 hotel rooms and a super luxury 100 room hotel at the top of Nakheel Tower.

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O-14

Constructed in Buisness Bay, Dubai, UAE.

The building is a traditional skyscraper block surrounded by an undulating skin punctured by circular holes of several sizes.

Mixed Use (Office, Retail, Restaurant)

Construction:   2006 - 2009

Floors:   21

Developer:   Albaraka Islamic Bank

Architects:   RUR Architects



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