Apeiron Hotel
Apeiron Hotel is a design concept for a new 7 star hotel in Dubai. Developer and construction schedule have not been announced as of October 2007. The Apeiron Hotel would be the second 7 star hotel to be built in Dubai (The Burj Al Arab hotel was the first 7 star hotel). Designed by UK’s Sybarite Architects, the hi-tech futuristic hotel would feature a two-storeyed jungle at the top of the 28-storeyed building. The seven star hotel is an US $350 million project that would be 300m from the coast of Dubai. Access to the hotel is restricted to water and air only.
HOTEL STATISTICS: total floors: 28 (above ground), total suites: 438, suite sizes: 180m² - 750m², building height: 185m, gross floor area: 300,000m², site footprint area:26,500m², passenger lifts: 14, service lifts: 8, distance off shore: 300m (Building design is equally as powerful within a landlocked site), wind load factor: 350km per hour, structure: steel, reinforced concrete.
The hotel also contains private cinemas, luxury boutiques, conference rooms and restaurants. Other features will include an art gallery, shops, underwater spa & gym, an underwater restaurant. The hotel’s internal facade has louvers to prevent direct sunlight and will made up of solar cells as is the ribbon that frames the building that can generate some energy for the entire hotel. The 28-storey hotel environs will have an artificial crescent-shaped beach, private lagoons and a central lagoon with colourful coral reefs surrounding it.
BURJ-AL-ARAB
The Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai is the only 7-Star hotel in the world.
Designed to look like the blowing sail of a yacht it is an impressive structure at 321 metres tall.
The Burj Al Arab is not cheap though, just to walk through the gates costs $75 or about £50.
The Burj Al Arab hotel itself boasts a fleet of 10 Rolls- Royce motor cars, and 202 luxury suites complimented by 6 bars and restaurants
The Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai is the only 7-Star hotel in the world.
Designed to look like the blowing sail of a yacht it is an impressive structure at 321 meters tall.
The Burj Al Arab is not cheap though, just to walk through the gates costs $75 or about £50.
The Burj Al Arab hotel itself boasts a fleet of 10 Rolls- Royce motor cars, and 202 luxury suites complimented by 6 bars and restaurants.
BURJ-AL-ALAM
The Burj al Alam in Dubai
Another one’s of Dubai’s endeavors, The Burj Al Alam is planned to be the world’s largest commercial skyscraper. The skyskraper will include retail stores, offices, hotels and apartments. The hotel rooms will be the world’s highest set of hotel rooms, at over 400m, while the top of the building will have a Turkish bath, sky garden, and other club facilities. The behemoth will be unleashed in 2009, being set to reach an astounding 484 m above ground.
AL TAMEER PLAZA.
The Tameer Towers in Abu Dhabi
The ever expanding skyline of Abu Dhabi will be soon including the Tameer Towers. This project, designed by U.S architect Hilson Moran of Gensler and Structural Engineers, will consist of 6 buildings spanning over a land space of 465,000 square metres. Set between the Arabian Sea and a 1million square feet Central Park, the Tameer Towers include 4 residential towers, a commercial tower, a 7-star-luxury-business hotel. The architect has also included in the plans for the majestic project stepped villas and townhouses, a private marina and a canal promenade. The project is estimated to cost $3.5 billion and should be finished by 2011.
FULL MOON HOTEL..AZARBIJAN
It's as if the Death Star, attacked by Rebels, fell through a wormhole, passed through the Disco Universe and collided with Azerbaijani: Meet the Hotel Full Moon, Heerim Architects' concept to reinvent both the skyscraper and hotel in the implausible locale of Baku on the Caspian Sea.
Even they're using the word "Death Star" to describe it:
Hotel Full Moon is essentially a disc with rounded edges and a hole in one of the top corners that appears radically different to the view depending on the angle it is seen from. The frontage thanks to the bulging centre makes it appear more like a glass death star whilst the side profile is more than a little gherkinesque.
Let's just hope terrorists don't take a cue from the New Republic and discover that thermal vent in the back that leads straight to the core. One photon torpedo... and boom.
This 521-foot-high hotel is coming to Baku, Azerbaijan, either to host a bunch of Imperial forces or obliterate the local population with a giant death ray. They call it "Full Moon" but they are not fooling us: this is a fully armed, fully operational battle station. And it shall be destroyed before it's too late, with a bunch of small fighters that can escape its turbolasers and drop proton torpedoes down an exhaust port. Or maybe not, if you look at it from its side.
HOTEL BOLOGNA.....ITALY
Rated as one of the five "most affluent" cities in Italy, the poet Martial defined the city as a cult, anticipating by almost one thousand years the "scholarly" attribute recognized during the medieval period and which remains with the city today. This is thanks to the glorious Studio, the oldest university in the world which was founded around 1088 and whose international prestige have been achieved while it educated some famous and important scholars. Their reputation brings thousands of students to Bologna each year, including future popes, monarchs and famous names, such as Thomas Becket, Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca, Erasmus from Rotterdam and Copernicus.
The historic center of Bologna is one of the most preserved in Europe and second only to Venice in Italy. It is dominated by huge ancient towers and full of ancient buildings and splendid churches which testify to the cultural importance bestowed on the city over the centuries. Of the towers that were once over one hundred, today the Two Towers have become a symbolic monument of Bologna: the leaning Garisenda (3.22 meter tilt) and the Asinelli which is 98 meters high, the highest stone building of medieval times. Today the urban system in the historic center has remained loyal to its medieval planning, with the walled circle from 1300 and the 12 entrance doors.
As well as being defined as "scholarly", Bologna has always been defined as "fat" due to its refined cooking traditions. Testimony to the recurring pleasure of the palate are delicious tortellini which, according to the "Secchia Rapita" by Tassoni, are modeled on the shape of Venus' bellybutton. Bologna is also home to tagliatelle, often mixed with Bolognese sauce, which were inspired by the long, blond locks of Lucrezia Borgia. Not to mention ricotta tortelloni, passatelli in broth, mixed boiled meat in a green sauce and the famous mortadella, known around the world under the name "Bologna". The city's attitude to “good living” is sublime with the famous restaurants where the Bolognese mingle with welcome guests to the city while drinking a glass of wine and sampling the house specialties late into the night.
