Location: Dubai, UAE
Architect(s): Aedas
Cost: TBA
Website: www.aedas.com
Forget Burj Al Arab, forget The Palm Jumeriah because once again, Dubai has given birth to a beautiful building. Unexpected, this building is unlike your usual skyscrapers and opera houses. Beautifully and well-crafted, the APV appears to resemble something you would expect to find in Star Wars. Isolated from the busy city life that is Dubai, the APV is located in a natural reserve, occupying it's own island and surrounded by the astonishing deserts of the Middle East, and the glistening salty waters of the Persian Gulf.
Connected by several bridges to allows trains, boats and cars, making accessible for different forms of transportation. A special feature of this building, is that the walls of the main foyers contain the water surrounding the building. Dropping from the main foyer, is an elegant concourse which moves underneath the water . Located to the side, are numerous restaurant and a drama theatre in the middle. Talk about elegance! You may be asking yourself, isn't it dark down there? Well, the concourse has it's own lighting sources from 44 glass tube elevators. Serving two purposes, the elevators arrive at an eloquent forecourt which contains a 25,00 seat venue. It is surrounded by 7 dancing figurines in midair. As well as all that, the entry platform serves as a observatory deck to spot different migrating birds, and to experience the scorching heat of Arabia.
Seven dancing figurines in midair? Well, alike all the other things, they too serve a purpose. Located on top of the performance venue, is a hotel enclosed by an outer glass shell. Reached by it's own lifts, the hotel lobby is accompanied by four figurines which house 300 hotel and serviced apartments. The front two figurines acts as shades and house the finance and business district and the final one serves as a support for the facility itself.
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