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Burj Al Arab
Hotel
The Burj al-Arab (Arabic "Tower
of the Arabs") is a luxury hotel in Dubai,
United Arab Emirates.
At
321 meters (1,053 feet), it is the tallest building used exclusively as
a
hotel and one of the most distinctive structures for a hotel building in
the
world.
It stands in the sea on an
artificial island 280 meters (919 feet) away from
the beach in the Persian
Gulf, connected to the mainland only by a curving
path.
The path is
extremely curving, with most corners being almost 90
degrees.
Construction of the hotel began in 1994, and its doors were opened
to
guests on December 1, 1999.
It was built to resemble the
sail of a dhow (a type of Arabian vessel)
and
intentionally placed in such a way that its shadow does not cover
the
beach.
On top of the hotel is a large helipad, extending from the side of the
hotel
over the ocean and supported by cantilever.
A remarkable element of
its architecture is the outer beachward wall of the
atrium, which is made of
a woven, Teflon-coated fiberglass cloth.
[atrium
lobby]
The Burj al-Arab features the tallest
atrium lobby in the world (180 meters,
or
590 feet), and the volume of the atrium can accommodate the Dubai
World Trade
Center building, which, at 38 stories, was the tallest building
in Dubai from
the late 1970s to the late 1990s.
The Statue of Liberty, along
with its pedestal, could fit into the atrium.
The Burj al-Arab does not have ordinary rooms; rather it is
divided into 202
duplex suites.
The smallest suite
occupies an area of 169 square meters (1,819 square
feet), and the largest
one covers 780 square meters (8,396 square feet).
[From : http://www.arcadiadreams.com/SPECIALS/burjalarab_gallery.htm ]
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