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Eco Factor: Sustainable hotel generates electricity for itself from renewable sources. U.S.-based architecture firm Leeser Architecture has designed a new five-star hotel for Abu Dhabi, UAE, which takes hotel designing to its utmost limits. Called the Helix Hotel, for its staggering form, the hotel is designed to partially float in water and partially rest in the bay. read more »
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Later this year, Abu Dhabi will get a transport system that could revolutionize public transport and bring another sci-fi concept to the real world. We’ve seen many designers conceptualize such podcars, but the tripping factor always has been the vast requirement for infrastructure and the investment such a project would demand. Abu Dhabi’s upcoming Masdar City, is sort of free of th read more »
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We have seen some most amazing structural designs in the recent past but the ‘Sphere Hotel,’ to be located somewhere between Dubai and Abu Dhabi, will surpass all of it! Visitors to the hotel will access it by an aerial route as it’ll be constructed on an artificial island, about 300 meters away from the beach. read more »
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If you thought the Leaning Tower of Pisa was messed up, get a load of the Capital Gate tower currently being constructed in Abu Dhabi. Actually, saying it is "messed up" is incorrect given that the 18 degree westward incline was completely intentional. In fact, the project's architects have submitted a joint application to the Guinness Book of Records to recognize the tower as the 'most inclined read more »
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18 floors and 100m high, Khaledya Tower offers 20,000m² of gross floor area for mixed use (residential, retail and commercial) in downtown Abu Dhabi, read more »
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