[malec]

This height is what I guessed for my 3D model but in fact it is very close according to one of the pics below.

These towers are not to be confused with the "dubai towers" which are also wiggly but a completely different project. In fact this one was released a few months ago but the thread disappeared into obscurity and now there's no chance of rescue :)

3 towers designed by Zaha Hadid's firm, one office (the largest), one res (the smallest) and one hotel. They share a common base which will have ground level retail, restaurants, etc. At the bottom the hotel and office towers merge to create a link to the hotel business centre with meeting rooms, office facilities and services for guests while near the top the hotel and res towers merge to share collective leisure facilities, including the indoor swimming pool and other amenities. Incorporated into this project is a pedestrian bridge allowing people to cross to the other side of the creek.


Various renders:

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/120/dt02it8.th.jpg (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dt02it8.jpg) http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/8885/14l3evdjg2.th.jpg (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=14l3evdjg2.jpg) http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4383/1636884132lo9.th.jpg (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1636884132lo9.jpg) http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3607/1918324690wd7.th.jpg (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1918324690wd7.jpg) http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4103/1199217010ty0.th.jpg (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1199217010ty0.jpg) http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/2200/963951288bn3.th.jpg (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=963951288bn3.jpg)


This was chosen from a competition with 4 entries. One of the other entries was by Reiser Umemoto. Here are the renders:

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/959/a01zi3.th.jpg (http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=a01zi3.jpg) http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/773/a02dh1.th.jpg (http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=a02dh1.jpg) http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2026/a03tt6.th.jpg (http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=a03tt6.jpg)


Some details of the design (the Zaha one)

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/389/untitled6qu8ai3.th.jpg (http://img329.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled6qu8ai3.jpg)


Small renders showing the bridge (partially)

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/8145/movementclipimage012000lc9.th.jpg (http://img329.imageshack.us/my.php?image=movementclipimage012000lc9.jpg) http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/4067/featurezahadubai5hn6.th.jpg (http://img167.imageshack.us/my.php?image=featurezahadubai5hn6.jpg)


A model of the towers:

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/9937/dancingtowerswl1.th.jpg (http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dancingtowerswl1.jpg)


The plot as of Jan 2007:

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/4789/72583267qee6hajfdubaiaely7.th.jpg (http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?image=72583267qee6hajfdubaiaely7.jpg)



More images to come later. There are loads from my 3D model but I have to go to college now :)

[Rise To The Top]

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=123549http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=123549?

[malec]

^^ In fact the 1st (or maybe 2nd) thing I said in the last post is this complex is not to be confused with the one in those two threads. These are the real dancing towers, the others are called "dubai towers", it's just that someone made an extra thread for them and got confused between the names

[Rise To The Top]

^^ In fact the 1st (or maybe 2nd) thing I said in the last post is this complex is not to be confused with the one in those two threads. These are the real dancing towers, the others are called "dubai towers", it's just that someone made an extra thread for them and got confused between the names

my b, same type of lot, same design style, and the names are kinda screwy..... its gonna be cool to see these be constructed since they bend off core.

[malec]

Here's some data from glitz_boy over on SSC

Tower | Height to top of facade | Height to last floor | Floors | Use
1 | 350.8m | 340.8m | 79 | Office
2 | 305.2m | 291.6m | 65 | Residential
3 | 250.6m | 238.3m | 52 | Use


Also a new site pic from dubaiflo also on SSC

http://i17.tinypic.com/490sg78.jpg

[malec]

A few new renders. Shows how the elevators will work:

http://198.106.254.194/idf/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/1220_051109_aerialview_0012.jpg

http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/1220_051109_creekview_day.jpg

http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/1220_021109_dubai-cro0003_final_ppp.jpg

http://198.106.254.194/idf/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/1220_panel_06_sk3_sec_b.jpg

http://198.106.254.194/idf/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/1220_panel_05_sk3_sec_a.jpg

http://198.106.254.194/idf/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/1220_panel_03_sk2_plan_0.jpg

[Stratosphere]

That project is different from this one, right?

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i503458_dubaitowers.jpg

[malec]

Yes they are entirely different projects proposed by different developers and in different locations

[Fred Savage Man Boy]

That project is different from this one, right?

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i503458_dubaitowers.jpg

The dancing towers look so much more elegant than these.


I'm glad to see this project is underway. I feel as though it's the most exciting proposal in Dubai right now.

[RLS_rls]

The renderings make them look extremely elegant, however I think in real life these will look kind of goofy. Kind of holding out on a final verdict until construction starts, however.

[MolsonExport]

Dubai: the laboratory for zany architectural hubris.

[John Hinds]

To get to the top of the bent tower you need to enter the one next door?

That's just nuts.

[AltinD]

Dubai: the laboratory for zany architectural hubris.

Wow, what a Revelation ...

[BANKofMANHATTAN]

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i503458_dubaitowers.jpg

The bases of the towers look kinda like the Chicago Spire's.

This isn't a Calatrava proposal, is it?

[malec]

08/June/2007
Soil Test

Dancing Towers plot

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/8800/imresolt144qj3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/5545/imresolt145xi9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/438/imresolt148ip9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/3360/imresolt149zk5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/1466/imresolt150ul7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[speedy1979]

Basically it seems that dubai will build just about anything that pops into there imagination. Kind of like a kid with really big/expensive Lego Blocks. :lol:

[neverdone]

What is Hadid's justification for the form of these buildings?

[gttx]

The bases of the towers look kinda like the Chicago Spire's.

This isn't a Calatrava proposal, is it?

They look strikingly similar....but those towers are by TVS

[Chitown]

Um, soil test? :haha:

[StatenIslander237]

this is a good project. its one of the few interesting projects that isn't too out there, but just out there enough.

Hooray!! I can still take Dubai seriously! :tup:

[OaktownRush]

Does anyone know how the elevators would work for dancing towers, when they bend up towards the top?

[AltinD]

Why the mods choose to put on the thread title the "roof" heights?

Tower | Height to top of facade | Height to last floor | Floors | Use
1 | 350.8m | 340.8m | 79 | Office
2 | 305.2m | 291.6m | 65 | Residential
3 | 250.6m | 238.3m | 52 | Use


... or it is the usual SSP way of doing business. Phhh...

[malec]

From SSC:

The site is being fenced off (as of 22nd of November)


http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/412/imresolt40lb1.jpg

[Nate the Great]

I would love to see this building built, if it is does anybody know when it wil be finished, if built

[soory for my bad speling:( ]

[SLO]

These are embarrassingly ugly buildings, like the kid in architecture studio who always had the wild ass ideas that werent practical in any way.

[Alliance]

Thats why they're built in Dubai: the world's garbage pit for architecture.

[Nate the Great]

Thats why they're built in Dubai: the world's garbage pit for architecture.

:haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha:

In a way i'd argee, some of buildings there just dont make any sense

[Aleks]

Actually, I have to admit Dubai has a lot of buildings that look good and to me these are some of those that look good.

The elevators go straight up no mater the shape of the building and it seems like Dubai has a LONGGGG way to go before it looks like in the renderings.

[smussuw]

These are embarrassingly ugly buildings, like the kid in architecture studio who always had the wild ass ideas that werent practical in any way.Their design isn't that great but they are no where ugly

[SLO]

Their design isn't that great but they are no where ugly

I am not a Dubai hater, there are amazing things being done there, but these buildings are basically a bad experiment. Ugly nonsense. Horrible. A bad joke. Please dont build these, and those other silly cloud buildings, and the rotating thing.....awful....

[Aleks]

The Cloud (although not economically reasonable) has a nice design. Towers like these look good since they are in the center of an area. They wouldn't be building them if it was an experiment since there are way more important things than building for fun.

A child in a studio? That's awesome, they have the most creativity, and they are good inspirational source. Although I doubt a kid would come up with the idea of twisting towers specially with such a hard design.

[Ch.G, Ch.G]

The Cloud (although not economically reasonable) has a nice design. Towers like these look good since they are in the center of an area. They wouldn't be building them if it was an experiment since there are way more important things than building for fun.

A child in a studio? That's awesome, they have the most creativity, and they are good inspirational source. Although I doubt a kid would come up with the idea of twisting towers specially with such a hard design.

The Cloud is Diller + Scofidio's Blur Building on stilts. Theirs was actually executed, though.

"Dancing" towers? ...Are threesomes even legal in Dubai?

[AltinD]

The Cloud was some guy's poking fun and laughing his a$$ off to all you Dubai bashers/hatters. :haha:

As for the Dancing Tower, those are designed by non other but ZAHA HADID herself, not some school-kid you'd think.

[Brian.]

Shouldn't architecture invoke some kind of emotion. Like it or not, but if it moves you in some direction then it has done it's job. You can't call it a bad design, you can only say that it doesn't fit your taste in buildings. Dubai has many styles and if many of these buildings were in your cities I don't think that you'd be so negitive about the architecture. It's only my take on it and shouldn't have to be yours.

[Ch.G, Ch.G]

The Cloud was some guy's poking fun and laughing his a$$ off to all you Dubai bashers/hatters. :haha:

Why was he laughing his "a$$" off? He didn't make any money. Even in giving it the benefit of the doubt as being a conceptual piece, it still was super derivative. :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha:

[Soaring_Higher]

I don't like the design, kids should be restricted from looking at it because of the x-rated configuration lol.

[AltinD]

Why was he laughing his "a$$" off? He didn't make any money. Even in giving it the benefit of the doubt as being a conceptual piece, it still was super derivative. :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha:

It was someone's joke, not a proposal.

[pablosan]

That's insanely crazy.

[arlekin_m]

what's happening with the towers?

[GO_UAE]

Thats why they're built in Dubai: the world's garbage pit for architecture.

you bitter little man with a Di*** up his ass !

[malec]

Some images of the towers and surrounding stuff:


http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/6650/finmarket3uy5lq2.png

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/9333/sigtowers4bm7kf2.png

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/4572/finmarket2bu5.png

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7840/dubai5py0.png

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/559/sigrender1ym6.png

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/2875/sigtowers5hp2.png

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/5343/sigrender3cq8.png

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/6844/finmarket4pe1.png

[staff]

How are these beauties coming along? It will be interesting to follow the construction process.

And seriously, don't listen to the haters. Like a revolutionary and cutting-edge Zaha Hadid project like this ever could be built in North America. It is towers like these that makes Dubai on its way to becoming a world city in the future. This project alone makes up for a lot of the crap that is being built there.

[Tom In Chicago]

STAFF - Like a revolutionary and cutting-edge Zaha Hadid project like this ever could be built in North America.

That's true. . . there's not enough money in North America to justify building these types of unusual buildings. . . I suspect the same could be said for Europe as well. . .

. . .

[malec]

The best render yet!!

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/dubai/jpgs/business_bay_signature_towers_hadidf110408_3.jpg


Some site offices are set up, some small excavation happening:

http://i25.tinypic.com/2hxrdis.jpg

http://i25.tinypic.com/16m6pv4.jpg

[hamo]

WOW

The design is totally addictive!!!

[malec]

2 homemade renders

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/4816/4aru2.jpg

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/6235/5aqx7.jpg

[LoverOfDubai]

WOW

You can say that again.
Malec, your images are great!

[Tallbert]

Mmm...:sly:
A lot of posts in this thread sound like jealousy... I mean, Dubai is the first city that have a lot of types of projects by the first time: dancing towers, rotating towers, cloud towers, gigantic islands...
That's my point: why to hate other countries that can afford those projects?
HURRAY FOR DUBAI!!!:notacrook:

By the way... Nice job with those renders, Malec!!!

[Dequal]

Great building and design and not only the towers, but the complex itself. I'm featuring it at my website today (http://dubai.mag3.be).

[malec]

This is on hold. Nothing is getting built on that site now but Dubai Properties still own the plot so they might redesign, or only start after 5 years if at all. Who knows.I don't want to say cancelled though.

[malec]

Maybe they might start this in 5 years.


· Published: 09 April 2009 11:30 GMT
· Author: Colin Foreman
· Last Updated: 09 April 2009 18:41

State-backed developer set to merge with sister company after taking over its management.

Dubai Properties has taken over the management of Sama Dubai, and plans to reactivate high-profile projects that the latter put on hold late last year.

The move is the clearest sign yet that Dubai plans to navigate the downturn by consolidating its real estate companies and projects.

"I manage all of Sama now - locally and internationally," Hashim al-Dabal, executive chairman of Dubai Properties, told MEED on 6 April.

The move is a precursor to a likely merger. "In one or two months time we will prove Sama is still alive," says Al-Dabal. "Then you might see Sama become part of Dubai Properties."

Contractors and bankers have expected a merger since February, when MEED reported that state-backed giant Dubai Holding planned to cut costs and restart stalled projects by consolidating its real estate subsidiaries.

Dubai Holding later confirmed that it would merge the back-office operations of its real estate subsidiaries, Dubai Properties Group, Sama Dubai and Mizin, which is part of Tatweer.

Since February, all three developers have cut costs and laid off employees to improve efficiency, which makes them more attractive targets for mergers.

"When you see a real investment opportunity [that has] been made efficient, that is when you can merge," says Al-Dabal.

Sama Dubai will receive financial assistance from Dubai Properties and Dubai Holding, which has received part of Dubai's $10bn sovereign bond.

"Dubai Holding is looking with the bond [Dubai's $10bn sovereign bond] to assist its subsidiaries where necessary," says Al-Dabal. "I would call it a bridging loan. If the company cannot return the money, it is not a good idea. I will only assist sustainable companies - those that can pay back in three or four years."

An injection of liquidity will allow Sama to restart work on its real estate projects.

Sama Dubai will continue with work on its Dubai Towers project in Doha, and will reactivate the Salam resort project in Bahrain and the Yiti development in Oman, says Al-Dabal.

"I have reviewed all of Sama's projects," says Al-Dabal. "It made some good investments outside Dubai and we are committed to them. I have reviewed Oman and Bahrain, given a plan to move forward, and a team is ready to reactivate them."

In Dubai, work will restart on the Lagoons project after Dubai Properties held talks with the contractors that were working on the development's infrastructure.

"The Lagoons will definitely be active this year," says Al-Dabal. "I have done an execution plan in the past five weeks and we can continue. I have spoken to Dutco, Wade Adams and Al-Naboodah. Those three contractors are our partners [on the] projects and we will reactivate them."

"I have liquidity and a team of contractors - that is what I need to move forward."

The Lagoons is one of six UAE projects that Dubai Properties will continue to develop throughout the year. The other developments are the Executive Towers and Vision Tower at Business Bay, Al-Waha and The Villa in Dubailand, and Mirdif Villas.

According to MEED's Real Estate 100 survey of the Gulf's leading developers in September 2008, Dubai Properties' project portfolio totalled $95bn, and Sama Dubai was working on projects worth $25bn.

Dubai Properties will suspend or put on hold other projects depending on their commercial viability.So far, it has shelved plans for the Mudon development in Dubailand and Signature Towers at Business Bay. But both projects were in the early stages and had not been sold to investors.

Similarly, the developer has put Sama's opera house project at the Lagoons on hold until market conditions improve.

Developers in Dubai, such as Dubai Properties, are now focusing their efforts on projects that are nearing completion and are located within the city, rather than in outlying areas where potential buyers are less keen to invest and infrastructure and construction costs are higher.

REAL ESTATE PROJECTS

DUBAI PROPERTIES

Live projects (all Dubai)

Executive Towers

Al-Waha Villas

Mirdif Villas

The Villa

Vision Tower

Status unknown(all Dubai)

Mudon

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Gardens

Signature Towers/DFM

Culture Village

Tijara Town

Bay Square



SAMA DUBAI

Live projects

Dubai Towers (Doha)

To be reactivated

Lagoons (Dubai)

Salam Resort (Bahrain)

Yiti (Oman)

To be kept on hold

Century City (Tunisia)

Amwaj (Morocco)

Opera House (Dubai)

Sources: MEED; Dubai Properties; Sama Dubai


In recent months, work has slowed or stopped on three of Dubai's largest out-of-town real estate developments: the Arabian Canal, Dubai Waterfront and Dubai World Central, which are located between Jebel Ali and the Abu Dhabi border.

"For projects, it is important to deliver, so we look at the construction costs and the avail-ability of infrastructure, which is normally closer to the city," says Al-Dabal.

"Both Dubai Properties and Emaar [Properties] have projects in the centre of Dubai. They are what I call the 'go' projects."

As Dubai's population contracts, there are concerns that there will be an over-supply of housing units by the end of 2009.

"The view of long-term oversupply is no longer a concern because a lot of projects have been put on hold," says Al-Dabal.

·Author: Colin Foreman. Gulf Bureau Chief

[Aleks]

God I hope they get built! These were amazing towers! Amazing design! I love the plot of land it sits on! Surrounding structures compliment this building [because most don't look nice and then BAM! This tower comes along!]. It was just amazing!

[malec]

They recently filled up some of the holes shown on the left and right of this picture. Who knows what will happen now.

http://i33.tinypic.com/2hz7q6a.jpg
Posted by 234sale.

[Hoodrat]

That's a disappointment :(

[malec]

^^ It's actually a good thing. Those gaps needed to be filled up in order to proceed with this:

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/2875/sigtowers5hp2.png


Although I really doubt this will get built anytime soon. Maybe they will build a park there, or else just the road and leave the plot empty.

[malec]

Al Habtoor arriving on site for some reason. Who knows, maybe they have bought the plot and will build something???


30/October/2009

Signature Towers site

good news , Al Habtoor at the site , massive mobilisation , generator, oil tank, water tank already there :)

http://i38.tinypic.com/15qw6dl.jpg

http://i35.tinypic.com/nlpde9.jpg

http://i35.tinypic.com/15u9v8.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/t5qi9z.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/2h37yhu.jpg

still no ide what going to be there, Signature Towers or The Habtoor Tower :)

[malec]

Great information on signature towers and the financial market building on desmena.com



Signature Towers in Dubai by Zaha Hadid

http://desmena.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/zaha_hadid_dancing_towers_01.jpg


Situated in the heart of Dubai’s new Business Bay in close proximity to SOM’s Burj Dubai, the Dancing Towers are a mixed use development, including offices, hotel, residential, and retail areas. The tower development also referred to as “Dancing Towers” incorporates two link bridges, waterfront park, and promenade on the central island of phase 1 of Dubai Properties’ Business Bay masterplan. The unusual fluid-lined triple tower proposal is the winning design of an international design competition including entries by Morphosis Architects, Los Angeles; RUR Architecture, New York; and Office of Metropolitan Architects, Rotterdam. Zaha Hadid’s design proposal is indicative of the architect’s distinctive style with the towers reflecting a dynamic fusion of volume and space.

The architects write: “The three towers rise above the creek and project themselves as an icon for the surrounding developments and for the Gulf region. The towers’ striking design creates a new presence that punctures the skyline with a powerful recognizable silhouette. The fluid character of the towers is generated through an intrinsically dynamic composition of volumes. The towers are intertwined to share programmatic elements and rotate to maximize the views from the site towards the creek and neighbouring developments.”

The masterplan foresees the plot directly connected to Sheikh Zayed Road – Dubai’s main commuter artery- linking it to the opposite side of the artificial bay and the developments southern boundary marked by Al Khail road. The site includes four different elements, leading to the idea of the “woven” combination of connections and the interlocking public spaces, and the triple tower configuration was developed to suite the requirement for hotel, residential, and office area.

A common podium emphasizes the connectivity of the towers and evokes a continual movement of activities and users within the complex. There are numerous large multiuse complexes such as this one among Dubai’s basket of wannabe icons, but they often tend to create an image of severance or disembodiment, while Hadid has on the contrary sought an inviting movement, while remaining “iconic”, irrespective of any of the surrounding “statements” that can be expected on surrounding plots, but also consciously and successfully connected to the developing district.

http://desmena.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/zaha_hadid_dancing_towers_02.jpg

http://desmena.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/zaha_hadid_dancing_towers_03.jpg



Project Facts

PROGRAM: Mixed-Use Development Competition; Offices, Hotel, Residential, Retail, Bridge, WaterfrontPark and Promenade
CLIENT: Dubai Properties, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
ARCHITECT: Zaha Hadid Architects
Design Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Project Architect Chris Lepine
Project Director Lars Teichmann
Project Team Chris Lepine, Stephan Wurster, Eren Ciraci, Alessio Costantino, David Campos Hoda Nobakhti,Chryssanthi Perpatidou, Bowornwan May Noradee, Nahed Jawad, Hussam Chakouf, Bassam Al Shiekh, Daniel Norell, Tomas Rabl, Don Burusphat Chiara Ferrari, Erhan Patat, Inanc Eray, Ceyhun Baskin, Jose Lemos, Josias Hamid, Arianna Russo, Carlos S. Martinez, Judith Wahle, Vincenzo Cocomero, Agata Kurzela
Project architect [competition] Tiago Correia
Design team [competition] Ana Cajiao, Saleem Abdel-Jalil, Sophie Le Bienvenu,
Hooman Talebi ,Mathias Reisigl, Diego Rosales,Tyen Masten, Daewha Kang, Renos Constantino, Graham Modlen
SIZE/ TOTAL AREA: 350,000 m2 above ground and 300,000 m2 below ground.
STOREYS: 75; 65; 51. Max height: 357m.


More renders and description

http://desmena.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/zaha_hadid_signature_towers_render_03.jpg

http://desmena.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/zaha_hadid_signature_towers_render_09.jpg

Zaha Hadid’s design for the Signature Towers confirms the role of Business Bay Development at the very forefront of Dubai’s rapidly changing
future. The three towers rise above the creek and project themselves as an icon for the surrounding developments and for the gulf region. The tower’s striking design creates a new presence that punctures the skyline with a powerful recognizable silhouette. The fluid character of the towers is generated through an intrinsically dynamic composition of volumes. The towers are inter-twined to share programmatic
elements and rotate to maximize the views from the site towards the creek and neighbouring developments. The design quality of the towers to act as a symbol and icon extends beyond their scale and location. These qualities are derived from the boldness of the architectural concept, from the ‘choreographed’ movement that combines the three towers in one overall gesture and ‘weaves’ with a series of public spaces through the podium, the bridges and the landscape beyond.

http://desmena.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/zaha_hadid_signature_towers_elevations_01.jpg

Context

There will, in the future, be a silhouette of towers, whose pinnacles will represent the hearts of the new districts within the greater metropolitan
area of Dubai. On the ground, the Business Bay development site will become stitched into the proposed extended road and infrastructure network of the enlarged metropolitan area. The new pedestrian routes and roads passing under and around the Towers’ development will extend across the creek, bringing people directly from Sheikh Zayed Road via a grid of major and minor thoroughfares and boulevards.
Connectivity and Public Space
The site is composed by 4 different parts: (A) central circular plot, (B) an elongated park plot, (C) the surface of the creek on axis of plot A and (D) a rectangular plot across the creek at the west margin. Connectivity between these parts becomes therefore central to the project; in order to produce an articulated design that encompasses both the scale and the different qualities of each of the parts, transforming them into a coherent scheme. The circular shape of the plot and attached vehicular circulation layout creates a barrier of vehicular traffic around the site, generating an island that detaches the plot from the waterfront promenade. By incorporating the design of two new link bridges and a new ground the project effectively multiplies the potential and connectivity of the site, linking the park at the East - via the towers with the water’s edge at the West margin of the creek.

http://desmena.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/zaha_hadid_signature_towers_interior_02.jpg

Programme

Programming of public and private life is an active tool to inject life into the space, integrating new layers of activity and landscape, creating a network of synergetic uses that can develop a new urban ecology.
The programme was addressed as a whole with the three towers corresponding directly to the three main functions: offices, hotel and residential. Together, the towers generate a critical mass of sustainable programmatic relationships. The towers share a common base / podium, designed as a materialized shadow of the towers and programmed with retail, restaurants and amenities that support the demand from the tower’s population. The three towers are conjoined two by two, the Offices and the Hotel at the base and the Hotel and the Residential
at the top. Through these adjacencies, the towers are strategically organized in a symbiotic relation, sharing certain segments of the programme. The advantage of joining the three towers in one organism, allows the development to be lived in a full day cycle: anchored in it’s residential population, it reaches the peak of activity during office hours and it mutates through the diversity of the ever-changing population
of the hotel. The heterogeneous population mix creates a cosmopolitan urban environment, constantly energized and renovated through it’s own life.


Interiors

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More Renders

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Elevations and Plans

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Financial Market

Various pictures and renders of the interior
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Plans of the whole site

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[Hoodrat]

My gawd!!! That's just awesome!

[metroXpress]

Those renderings are impressive!! Thanks!

[Infernal_Elf]

would be amazing if they are built tottaly up there on design levels whit the turning torso and CCTV Headquarters in Beijing

and the cctv headquarters building is good proof that this can be done.

and really beautiful renderings good job