Burj Al Arab
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| Burj Al Arab | |
|---|---|
 | |
| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Type | Luxury Hotel |
| Architectural style | High-Tech |
| Location | Jumeirah Beach Road, Jumeirah 3 - إمارة دبيّ,Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Coordinates | 25.141975°N 55.186147°ECoordinates: 25.141975°N 55.186147°E |
| Construction started | 1994 |
| Completed | 1999 |
| Opening | December 1999 |
| Cost | USD $ 1 billion[1] |
| Height | |
| Architectural | 321 m (1,053 ft) |
| Top floor | 197.5 m (648 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 56 (3 below ground)[2] |
| Lifts/elevators | 18[2] |
| Design as well as construction | |
| Architect | Tom Wright of WKK Architects |
| Developer | Jumeirah |
| Structural engineer | Atkins |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 202[2] |
| Website | |
| burj-al-arab.com | |
| References | |
| [2][3][4][5][6] | |
Burj Al Arab (Arabic: برج العرب,Tower of the Arabs) is a luxury hotel located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It has been called "The world's merely 7 star Hotel" as well as is the third tallest hotel inwards the world; however, 39% of its amount exceed is made upwards of non-occupiable space.[7][8][9] Burj Al Arab stands on an artificial island 280 m (920 ft) from Jumeirah beach as well as is connected to the mainland past times a individual curving bridge. The shape of the construction is designed to mimic the canvas of a ship. It has a helipad close the roof at a exceed of 210 m (689 ft) higher upwards ground.
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[hide]Site[edit]
The beachfront expanse where Burj Al Arab and Jumeirah Beach Hotel are located was previously called Chicago Beach.[10]The hotel is located on an isle of reclaimed land 280 meters offshore of the beach of the former Chicago Beach Hotel.[11]The locale's call had its origins inwards the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company which at ane fourth dimension welded giant floating fossil oil storage tanks, known locally as Kazzans on the site.[10]
The old call persisted afterwards the old Hotel was demolished inwards 1997. Dubai Chicago Beach Hotel remained equally the Public Project Name for the construction stage of Burj Al Arab Hotel until Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced the novel name.[11]
Design as well as construction[edit]
Burj Al Arab was designed past times multidisciplinary consultancy Atkins, led past times architect Tom Wright, who has since instruct co-founder of WKK Architects. The pattern as well as construction were managed past times Canadian engineer Rick Gregory also of WS Atkins. Construction of the Island began inwards 1994 amongst over sixty WS Atkins managerial as well as pattern staff, as well as upwards to 2000 construction workers during peak construction. It was built to resemble the canvas of a traditional Arabian vessel called a dhow. Two "wings" spread inwards a V to cast a vast "mast", piece the infinite betwixt them is enclosed inwards a massive atrium. The architect Tom Wright[12] said "The customer wanted a edifice that would instruct an iconic or symbolic disceptation for Dubai; this is really like to Sydney with its Opera House, London with Big Ben, or Paris with the Eiffel Tower. It needed to hold upwards a edifice that would instruct synonymous amongst the call of the country."[13][not inwards citation given]
Atkins. Fletcher Construction from New Zealand was the Pb articulation venture partner inwards the initial stages of pre-construction as well as construction.[14] The hotel was built by South African construction contractor Murray & Roberts and Al Habtoor Engineering.[15]
The edifice opened inwards Dec 1999.[16]
Features[edit]
Several features of the hotel required complex engineering scientific discipline feats to achieve. The hotel rests on an artificial isle constructed 280 m (920 ft) offshore. To secure a foundation, the builders drove 230 forty-meter-long (130 ft) concrete piles into the sand.[17]
Engineers created a ground/surface layer of large rocks, which is circled amongst a concretehoneycomb pattern, which serves to protect the foundation from erosion. It took iii years toreclaim the terra firma from the sea, piece it took fewer than iii years to build the edifice itself. The edifice contains over 70,000 m3 (92,000 cu yd) of concrete as well as 9,000 tons of steel.[17]
Inside the building, the atrium is 180 m (590 ft) tall.[citation needed]
Burj Al Arab is the world's 3rd tallest hotel (not including buildings amongst mixed use). The construction of the Rose Rayhaan, also inDubai, is 11 m (36 ft) taller than Burj Al Arab.[citation needed]
Rooms as well as suites[edit]
The hotel is managed past times the Jumeirah Group. Despite its size, Burj Al Arab holds merely 28 double-story floors which conform 202 sleeping room suites. The smallest suite occupies an expanse of 169 m2 (1,820 sq ft), the largest covers 780 m2 (8,400 sq ft).[18]
Suites characteristic pattern details that juxtapose due east as well as west. White columns present nifty influence.[clarification needed] Bathrooms are accented past times mosaic tile patterns.[citation needed]
The Royal Suite, billed at US$18,716 per night, is listed at lay out 12 on World's xv most expensive hotel suites compiled past times CNN Go inwards 2012.[19]
The Burj Al Arab is really pop amongst the Chinese market, which made upwards 25 per centum of all bookings at the hotel inwards 2011 as well as 2012.[20]
Restaurants[edit]
Al Muntaha ("Highest"), is located 200 m (660 ft) higher upwards the Persian Gulf, offering a thought of Dubai. It is supported past times a fullcantilever that extends 27 m (89 ft) from either side of the mast, as well as is accessed past times a panoramic elevator.[citation needed]
Al Mahara ("Oyster"), which is accessed via a faux submarine voyage, features a large seawater aquarium, belongings unopen to 990,000 L (260,000 US gal) of water. The wall of the tank, made of acrylic glass in monastic tell to withstand the H2O pressure, is close 18 cm (7.1 in) thick.[citation needed]
Rating[edit]
While the hotel is oft described equally "the world's merely seven-Star hotel", the hotel management claims to never conduct keep done that themselves. In the words of a Jumeirah Group spokesperson: "There's non a lot nosotros tin create to halt it. We're non encouraging the role of the term. We've never used it inwards our advertising."[21] According to the group, the "Seven-Star" notion was brought to beingness past times a British journalist who visited the hotel on a pre-opening press trip. The journalist "described Burj al Arab inwards her article equally higher upwards as well as beyond anything she had always seen as well as called it a seven-star hotel. The truthful existent certified seven-star hotel is inwards Milan, Italia ( http://www.forbes.com/sites/declaneytan/2015/08/04/1032/) "[21]
Reception[edit]
Reviews past times architecture critics[edit]
Burj Al Arab has attracted criticism equally good "a contradiction of sorts, considering how well-designed as well as impressive the construction ultimately proves to be."[18] The contradiction hither seems to hold upwards related to the hotel’s decor. "This extraordinary investment inwards state-of-the-art construction engineering stretches the limits of the ambitious urban imagination inwards an do that is largely due to the might of excessive wealth." Another critic includes negative critiques for the metropolis of Dubai equally well: "both the hotel as well as the city, afterwards all, are monuments to the triumph of coin over practicality. Both elevate mode over substance."[18] Yet another: "Emulating the lineament of palatial interiors, inwards an facial expression of wealth for the mainstream, a house of opulence is created inwards Burj Al Arab … The final result is a baroque effect".[18]
Public relations stunts[edit]
Several events conduct keep taken house on the helipad 210 1000 (689 ft) higher upwards the world to attract media attention. These include :
- 2004: Tiger Woods teeing off[22]
- 2005: Andre Agassi and Roger Federer playing tennis[23]
- 2006: Ronan Keating shot the Music Video for his unmarried "Iris" at the Helipad of Burj Al Arab.[citation needed]
- 2007: The Today Show broadcast from the Helipad a segment of Where inwards the World is Matt Lauer?[24]
- 2011: Golfer Rory McIlroy performing a bunker shot.[25]
- 2013: Heli-lift of Aston Martin Vanquish.[26]
- 2013: David Coulthard performing donuts in a Formula 1 racecar.[27]
See also[edit]
- W Barcelona (Hotel Vela) - skyscraper of like appearance inwards Barcelona, Kingdom of Spain (sail)
- Vasco da Gama Tower - like construction inwards Lisbon, Portugal
- Elite Plaza - a similar-shaped skyscraper inwards Yerevan, Armenia
- Trump Ocean Club International Hotel as well as Tower, (Panama City) - like structure
- Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth - like construction inwards Portsmouth, UK
- List of tallest buildings inwards the United Arab Emirates
- List of tallest buildings inwards Dubai
