[AltinD]

The new design of FOUR SEASONS Hotel in Dubai Festival City has been unveiled.

It went from this 320 meter tower:

http://i5.tinypic.com/242beyf.jpg



to this:

http://www.dubaifestivalcity.com/images/fourseasons_side.jpg

http://i18.tinypic.com/3zbyf6s.jpg


A SSC forum member was involved on the design of the first one, but he mooved to a different job so we have no info on the second design, however it is obviously much shorter.

http://www.dubaifestivalcity.com/explore_hos_four.asp

[MGW]

this seems like something that would happen in New York City, not Dubai. There are several buildings in Dubai which I do not like, yet that first design of the FOUR SEASONS was actually really really awesome. They should build it in America now.:cheers:

[M.K.]

Both are very awesome, but I believe more the 2nd one. It seems the Square with hole somewhere in China i think. hope both strucutres in Dubai soon.:notacrook:

[AltinD]

^^ The second design has replaced the first one, so only one is going to be build (if no further design changes happen).

[Aleks]

the second one seems too high tech-ish to be a hotel its nice though just make it a microsoft office building or apple or any high tech computer thingy company

[AZheat]

The first design was spectacular. I think the second is a real letdown and it's so completely different. Often times these redesigns just try to improve and refine the original but for some reason they just dropped the whole idea.

[WonderlandPark]

I like the second one better. I am glad they traded height for height's sake and went with something more innovative like China's TV building. I wonder how that clear part at the top will be executed.

[malec]

The first was apparantly cancelled because it was unfeasible money-wise

[-GR2NY-]

Renderings will often add flares and whisps of light where the final structure will not contain such things. I hope thats not the case in this circumstance.

[theWatusi]

:previous: What would be really cool is if the horizontal portion shot out beams of light towards the diaginal portion and then refected up into space. :crazy:

[M.K.]

:previous: What would be really cool is if the horizontal portion shot out beams of light towards the diaginal portion and then refected up into space. :crazy:

Only with mirrors to do that and it would be great wasting energy for nothing.:frog:

[DUBAI2015]

First one looks very Dubai-ish. Then again, the second one is even more fit for Dubai. :haha:

[Aleks]

the second one seems too high tech-ish to be a hotel its nice though just make it a microsoft office building or apple or any high tech computer thingy company

Wow, I feel silly. I like this tower now.

[allwyn285]

Who is the interior designer for this project,
and the architectual consultant..

[Dalton]

Ugh!

The effect of the white foggy area completing the box as shown in the rendering will obviously never be accomplished in real life. So, it would at least look a little better if the planes of cutout sections on each tower were parallel.

[Nate the Great]

The first desian is Neat:banana: , the sconed is...uhhh i just dont like that one

(soory)

[Soory for my bad speling:( ]

[Nate the Great]

Only with mirrors to do that and it would be great wasting energy for nothing.:frog:

you have a point:tup:

[NDPhilly]

Reminds me of that one in Beijing called the CCTV Headquarters

[Aleks]

Is it U/C or is it still proposed? A diagram would be nice too.

[malec]

^^ I think it might be a stale proposal at this stage. Nothing has happened at all.