"City of Dreams" Hotel Tower / Zaha Hadid Architects

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Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a 40-story luxury hotel for Macau’s premier leisure and entertainment destination known as “City of Dreams.” Perceived as a single “sculptural element” united by an exposed exoskeleton mesh structure, the “simple volume” was extruded from its rectangular site as two towers connected at the podium and roof levels, with two organically-shaped bridges punctuating the tower’s center external void. This central void is then celebrated by a 40-meter tall, “grandiose atrium” that greets visitors as they enter the hotel.

Take a digital tour through the building and into the atrium via a newly released video, after the break...

"The tower’s exposed exoskeleton reinforces the dynamism of the design. Expressive and powerful, this external structure optimizes the interior layouts and envelops the building, further defining its formal composition and establishing relationships with the new Cotai strip," described ZHA in a press release.

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Once complete in early 2017, the hotel will house a retail strip, gaming area and the atrium, which includes the main reception area, lobby bar, and a flexible installation space, on the ground floor, in addition to 780 hotel units, a casino floor, specialty restaurants, a “super lounge,” VIP gaming, top floor villas and a "sky pool."

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• Architects

  Zaha Hadid Architects

• Location

  Cotai, Macau

• Design

  Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher

• Project Directors

  Viviana Muscettola, Michele Pasca di Magliano

• Facade Director

  Paolo Matteuzzi

• Project Architects

  Maria Loreto Flores, Clara Martins, Michele Salvi

• Project Team

  Pierandrea Angius, Luis Miguel Samanez, Massimo Napoleoni, Bianca Cheung, Miron Mutyaba, Milind Khade, Stefano Lacopini Davide, Del Giudice Luciano, Letteriello Cyril Manyara, Alvin Triestanto, Muhammed Shameel, Goswin Rothenthal, Santiago Fernandez- Achury

• Concept Team

  Viviana Muscettola, Tiago Correia, Clara Martins, Loreto Flores, Victor Orive, Danilo Arsic, Ines Fontoura, Fabiano Costinanza, Rafael Gonzalez, Muhammed Shameel

• Developer

  Melco Crown Entertainment Limited

• Consultants Executive Architect

  L&O, Hong Kong

• Local Architect

  CAA, Macau

• Structural Engineering

  / Hong Kong

• M&E Engineering

  JRP, Hong Kong; Buro Happold, London (Concept)

• Facade Engineering

  Buro Happold, Hong Kong

• Interior Designer

  Remedios Studio, Long Beach CA

• Gaming Designer

  Friedmutter Group, Las Vegas NV

• Quantity Surveyor

  WTP, Hong Kong

• Lighting Design

  Isometrix, London/ Hong Kong

• Fire Engineering

  Ove Arup, Hong Kong

• Acoustic Consultant

  Shen Milson & Wilke, Hong Kong

• Traffic Engineer

  MVA, Hong Kong

• Building Contractor

  Dragages, Hong Kong

• Area

  150000.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Zaha Hadid Architects; 2014 Melco Crown Entertainment Limited

• Location

  Cotai, Macau

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Zaha Hadid Architects; 2014 Melco Crown Entertainment Limited

• Area

  150000.0 m2

• Mechanical & Electrical Engineer

  JRP, Hong Kong; Buro Happold, London (Concept)