City of Dreams Hotel Tower | Zaha Hadid Architects

Description from the Zaha Hadid Architects:
Melco Crown Entertainment, a developer, and owner of casino gaming and entertainment resort facilities in Asia has unveiled the project details and design of the fifth hotel tower at the City of Dreams, the company’s flagship property in Cotai, Macau.

Lobby Atrium . Image © Zaha Hadid Architects; 2014 Melco Crown Entertainment Limited

With 40 floors and a gross floor area of 150,000 square meters, the tower houses approximately 780 guestrooms, suites and sky villas. The hotel also includes a variety of meeting and event facilities, gaming rooms, lobby atrium, restaurants, spa, and sky pool. Integrating extensive back of house areas and supporting ancillary facilities, the tower’s design resolves the many complex programs for the hotel within a single cohesive envelope.

The design combines dramatic public spaces and generous guest rooms with innovative engineering and formal cohesion. The rectangular outline of the site is extruded as a monolithic block with a series of voids which carve through its center of the tower, merging traditional architectural elements of roof, wall, and ceiling to create a sculptural form that defines many of the hotel’s internal public spaces.

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. Development of the new hotel at City of Dreams commenced in 2013. The project is expected to open in early 2017.

Project Info:
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
Project Name: City of Dreams Hotel Tower
All Images Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects, Zaha Hadid Architects; 2014 Melco Crown Entertainment Limited