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What Hotel (as yet unnamed) Where Istanbul, Turkey Who Design and engineering: Atkins Why The 1m sq ft, 165m-tall, 40-storey hotel is a pre-concept design featuring a ballroom that will double as a conference facility with capacity for 1,200 people. Inspired by the Bosphorus Strait — which runs through Istanbul and Turkey, separating Europe and Asia — the new hotel has been granted outline planning arrangement by the Istanbul metropolitan municipal board. It is now at concept design stage, with anticipated final completion expected in 2008. |
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What Earth Park Where Lake Red Rock, near Pella, Iowa, US Who Developer: KUD Architect: Grimshaw Why Earth Park’s developer claims that it will be one of the biggest environmental tourist attractions in the world. It will be built on a 70-acre site, housing one of the world’s largest indoor rainforests and incorporating a 600,000-gallon aquarium. The main dome will cover approximately 4 acres and will be more than 150-feet tall. Work starts in 2007 with completion scheduled for 2010. |
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What Regatta Where Pantai Mutiara Canal Estate on the shores of the Java Sea, Jakarta Who Design and engineering: Atkins Why The development’s main feature and centrepiece is an arch-shaped, five-star, 320-room luxury hotel, which will be surrounded by 10 residential towers providing 920 apartments, on a 1m sq ft site. The hotel features a ballroom for 1,000 guests, a health spa and well-being centre, and four restaurants including a 21,528 sq ft sky lobby 148m above ground level. Regatta also features an extensively landscaped 275,565 sq ft water park. On site, piling works are complete for the first phase of the development, which includes four of the apartment towers, with completion expected in December 2007. |
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What TEDA Towers Where Eastern quarter of Tianjin, China Who Design and engineering:Atkins Why Atkins has won an international competition to design three landmark towers, which resemble stacks of blocks rotating around a central core. When complete, the scheme will rank among China’s tallest buildings. The main tower reaches 356m and comprises a 400-room five-star hotel, serviced apartments, offices and commercial space. The two smaller towers, which rise to 136m and 198m, comprise offices, serviced apartments and a local government centre. Sustainable design is a key feature of Atkins’ designs for TEDA, with vertical wind-power electricity generators on the top of each tower to provide supplementary power. |
Rising high A look at ground-breaking leisure developments around the globe
What Hotel (as yet unnamed)
Where Istanbul, Turkey
Who Design and engineering: Atkins
Why The 1m sq ft, 165m-tall, 40-storey hotel is a pre-concept design featuring a ballroom that will double as a conference facility with capacity for 1,200 people. Inspired by the Bosphorus Strait — which runs through Istanbul and Turkey, separating Europe and Asia — the new hotel has been granted outline planning arrangement by the Istanbul metropolitan municipal board. It is now at concept design stage, with anticipated final completion expected in 2008.
What Earth Park
Where Lake Red Rock, near Pella, Iowa, US
Who Developer: KUD
Architect: Grimshaw
Why Earth Park’s developer claims that it will be one of the biggest environmental tourist attractions in the world. It will be built on a 70-acre site, housing one of the world’s largest indoor rainforests and incorporating a 600,000-gallon aquarium. The main dome will cover approximately 4 acres and will be more than 150-feet tall. Work starts in 2007 with completion scheduled for 2010.
What Regatta
Where Pantai Mutiara Canal Estate on the shores of the Java Sea, Jakarta
Who Design and engineering: Atkins
Why The development’s main feature and centrepiece is an arch-shaped, five-star, 320-room luxury hotel, which will be surrounded by 10 residential towers providing 920 apartments, on a 1m sq ft site.
The hotel features a ballroom for 1,000 guests, a health spa and well-being centre, and four restaurants including a 21,528 sq ft sky lobby 148m above ground level. Regatta also features an extensively landscaped 275,565 sq ft water park. On site, piling works are complete for the first phase of the development, which includes four of the apartment towers, with completion expected in December 2007.
What TEDA Towers
Where Eastern quarter of Tianjin, China
Who Design and engineering:Atkins
Why Atkins has won an international competition to design three landmark towers, which resemble stacks of blocks rotating around a central core. When complete, the scheme will rank among China’s tallest buildings. The main tower reaches 356m and comprises a 400-room five-star hotel, serviced apartments, offices and commercial space.
The two smaller towers, which rise to 136m and 198m, comprise offices, serviced apartments and a local government centre. Sustainable design is a key feature of Atkins’ designs for TEDA, with vertical wind-power electricity generators on the top of each tower to provide supplementary power.
