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 simply 7 star Hotel" as well as is the third tallest hotel inward the world; however, 39% of its amount tiptop is made upward 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 canvass of a ship. It has a helipad close the roof at a tiptop of 210 m (689 ft) higher upward 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 inward the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company which at 1 fourth dimension welded giant floating crude oil storage tanks, known locally as Kazzans on the site.[10]
The old call persisted later on the old Hotel was demolished inward 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 locomote co-founder of WKK Architects. The blueprint as well as construction were managed past times Canadian engineer Rick Gregory also of WS Atkins. Construction of the Island began inward 1994 amongst over sixty WS Atkins managerial as well as blueprint staff, as well as upward to 2000 construction workers during peak construction. It was built to resemble the canvass of a traditional Arabian vessel called a dhow. Two "wings" spread inward a V to cast a vast "mast", piece the infinite betwixt them is enclosed inward a massive atrium. The architect Tom Wright[12] said "The customer wanted a edifice that would locomote an iconic or symbolic contention 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 out a edifice that would locomote synonymous amongst the call of the country."[13][not inward citation given]
Atkins. Fletcher Construction from New Zealand was the Pb articulation venture partner inward 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 inward 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 3 years toreclaim the terra firma from the sea, piece it took fewer than 3 years to cook 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 simply 28 double-story floors which arrange 202 sleeping accommodation 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 blueprint details that juxtapose E as well as west. White columns demo corking 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 publish 12 on World's xv most expensive hotel suites compiled past times CNN Go inward 2012.[19]
The Burj Al Arab is really pop amongst the Chinese market, which made upward 25 per centum of all bookings at the hotel inward 2011 as well as 2012.[20]
Restaurants[edit]
Al Muntaha ("Highest"), is located 200 m (660 ft) higher upward 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, asset about 990,000 L (260,000 US gal) of water. The wall of the tank, made of acrylic glass in monastic enjoin to withstand the H2O pressure, is close 18 cm (7.1 in) thick.[citation needed]
Rating[edit]
While the hotel is often described equally "the world's simply seven-Star hotel", the hotel administration claims to never get got 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 inward 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 inward her article equally higher upward as well as beyond anything she had e'er seen as well as called it a seven-star hotel. The truthful existent certified seven-star hotel is inward Milan, Italy ( 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 out related to the hotel’s decor. "This extraordinary investment inward state-of-the-art construction engineering stretches the limits of the ambitious urban imagination inward an practice 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, later on all, are monuments to the triumph of coin over practicality. Both elevate agency over substance."[18] Yet another: "Emulating the character of palatial interiors, inward an appear of wealth for the mainstream, a theatre of opulence is created inward Burj Al Arab … The final result is a baroque effect".[18]
Public relations stunts[edit]
Several events get got taken house on the helipad 210 thousand (689 ft) higher upward 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 inward 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 inward Barcelona, Kingdom of Spain (sail)
- Vasco da Gama Tower - like construction inward Lisbon, Portugal
- Elite Plaza - a similar-shaped skyscraper inward Yerevan, Armenia
- Trump Ocean Club International Hotel as well as Tower, (Panama City) - like structure
- Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth - like construction inward Portsmouth, UK
- List of tallest buildings inward the United Arab Emirates
- List of tallest buildings inward Dubai
