The Foster + Partners have completed the first of a cluster of solar powered buildings in Masdar city, Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The Masdar Institute is  a graduate level, research-oriented university which is focused on option energy, sustainability, and the environment, that will generate more solar energy than it consumes. The building features a perforated frontage made of glass-reinforced concrete colored with local sand and detailed with patterns found in traditional Islamic architecture.

This exclusive five star resort, situated on a private lagoon directly on 800 meters of white sandy beach on the Arabian Peninsula, offers first class service and excellent business and relaxation facilities. This is Hilton Ras Al Khaimah Resort. Located just about 50 minutes from Dubai International Airport, the stunning Hilton Resort is ideal for a tranquil classic beach resort holiday.

The Hilton Ras Al Khaimah Resort was officially opened on October 13, 2009 by H.H Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Crown Prince & Deputy Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah. It provides luxury and Arabian culture and has a superlative spa. The traditionally designed villas have their own terrace or balcony with either sea or mountain views. Number of rooms: 475 – in each case with terrace or balcony and view of the mountains or the sea.

Resort’ Facilities: a SPA where guests can indulge mind and body, which features 9 treatment rooms, Jacuzzi, Turkish steam room, a traditional Hamam Bath, sauna, Fitness room, Aerobic studio, hairdresser and more. You can attend a conference in one of 3 contemporary function rooms or savor cuisine from around the world at one of the 12 bars and restaurants or simply watch the sun set with a cocktail on the white sandy beach. There is a huge variety of water sport activities including water ski, Banana, windsurfing, snorkeling and diving, 2 tennis courts, children’s club, children’s pool and 2 swimming pools.

Situated on a private beach in the Arabian Gulf, this is a 5-star resort located only 5 miles from central Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. The residence offers you quality living standards in a tremendous location with views of the azure Arabian Ocean and the backdrop of the majestic Al Hajar Mountains.

Al Hamra Residences has 219 lovely apartments with sea or garden views. Designed in traditional Arabian architecture and style with modern furnishings, the apartments are fully equipped with all contemporary amenities you need during your stay. The unit’s facilities include 32-inch LCD television, wired high-speed Internet access, mini bars, are air-conditioned, bathrooms with handheld showerheads, bathrobes, hair dryers, and complimentary toiletries. This Ras Al Khaimah has its own restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner where you will find a selection of items to try. Al Hamra’s Sea Breeze Restaurant features panoramic gulf views and serves traditional Arabic cuisine made from fresh locally-sourced ingredients. The hotel also features an outdoor swimming pool, a well-equipped fitness centre with cardio equipment, a tennis court and a poolside bar. Whether renting for the short or long-term, Al Hamra Residences treat you in style and with a high level of care and comfort.

This is a new luxurious resort located in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah just 45 min drive from Dubai. Overlooking the Arabian Gulf, the Cove Rotana Resort occupies an idyllic waterfront position with 600 m of pristine beach. Boasting beautiful accommodation, 6 restaurants and 600 m of private beach, the resort offers discerning travellers the pleasures of graceful living and a multitude of activities.

The Cove Rotana Resort is all about fun, leisure and relaxation. You can keep fit and relax with the state-of-the-art facilities – 600 metres beach, 2 swimming pools, Bodylines leisure and a fully equipped fitness club with professional instructors, Jacuzzi, sauna and steam room. The guests of the resort can choose from a wide variety of Food & Beverage venues. Restaurants at Cove Rotana Resort – Ras Al Khaimah include Chinese, Mediterranean and American cuisines, where skilled chefs serve up an array of many traditional and modern dishes from all over the Mediterranean, all comes together to create a new and irresistible oasis of enchantment in the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. Water and beach sports activities are available.

Set in a peaceful location amidst lush greenery and swaying palms in Dubai, the Desert Palm is a 20-minute drive from Dubai International Airport and approximately a 15-minute drive away from Sheikh Zayed Road. With its clean-lined modern villas surrounded by gardens, hedges, and trees, this luxurious Dubai hotel offers a high-quality resort experience. An oasis, greener than your average desert experience, welcomes you at truly peaceful and exclusive atmosphere.

The Desert Palm Hotel features 26 incredibly chic and elegant guest suites and villas. Each villa has a private pool, while the two- and three-bedroom Residences add kitchens, multiple bathrooms, and nine-foot privacy walls. Each of the elegant rooms boasts its own distinctive design, they create an ambiance of exclusivity and style and come with all facilities you need including: a flat-screen TV with cable channels, a spacious seating area and a private bathroom with luxurious amenities. Some rooms include a private pool.

The Rare Restaurant has a show kitchen and serves wood-fired steaks, while the Red Bar and Lounge serves exotic cocktails, champagnes and international beers. The Palm has a phenomenal spa center features 6 spa suites where guests can enjoy a range of relaxation therapies and facials featuring Per Aquum products. The center offers massage services, an outdoor swimming pool, a sauna, a steam room and a modern gym equipped with cardiovascular equipment and free weights.

 With four championship polo fields, the Desert Palm might be the world’s first boutique polo hotel. It also offers riding lessons, as well as tennis and squash as a break from the ponies. You can watch a polo match from the comfort of your room or whilst enjoying tea on the terrace or take a micro flight over the desert or enjoy a 4×4 desert safari.

The galleries are placed at the bases of five lightweight steel solar towers resembling birds’ wings. They rise from a man-made, landscaped mound and acting as thermal chimneys that will draw cool air into the spaces below. The tallest of the five wings will be 124 metres. Set within a landscaped garden, The Zayed National Museum will be a public and civic building, a centre of learning and discussion. The museum contains a variety of performance spaces. The lobby incorporates informal venues for poetry readings, music and dance, where the audience can gather in a circle to enjoy the spectacle and atmosphere of traditional performances. The museum will be open in late 2014.

Total Built-up Area - 66,042 sq.m
Central Atrium - 4,386 sq. m
Performance Space - 348 sq. m
Retail – 340 sq. m
Restaurant and Cafes - 980 sq. m
Auditorium and Conference Rooms - 456 sq. m
Education Facilities - 339 sq. m
Total Gallery space - 5,764 sq. m

Opened in 2011, this 5-star luxurious hotel is located on the famous artificial island of Palm Jumeirah, Dubai. Only 35 minutes from Dubai Airport, Zabeel Saray is managing of Jumeirah Group – a member of Dubai Holding. With 400 exclusive rooms, 42 spectacular residences overlooking the Persian Gulf, several white sand beaches, 7 restaurants offering worldwide specialties, and an 8,000 sq m spa, this beachside resort offers even more luxury.

Jumeirah Zabeel Saray also offers an extensive selection of sports and leisure activities such as: scuba diving, sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, waterskiing, snorkelling, world-class golf courses, tennis and basketball courts, Film Theatre and more.

Le Meridien Fairway Hotel Dubai is a store outlet style hotel, which is centrally nonnomadic in the mistrust of Metropolis, only transactions away from Side International Theatre. There are numerous shopping facilities in City, among these are the Deira City Courage Shopping Paseo, BurJuman, Wafi Port Outlet, Lamcy Honorable and the Deira Side Spot.

Guestrooms at the Le Meridien Fairway Hotel Port countenance livelihood such as soaring locomote Cyberspace gain visible for a fee, lodging occlude televisions, in-room safes and sculpture bathrooms. There are non vapor rooms, air conditioning, bathrobes and desk. Commerce facilities countenance a boardroom with innate daylight set on the Mezzanine base that can vary 12 persons.

Those search for first-rate sportsmanlike and leisure facilities present ascertain jacuzzi, gym/fitness facilities, obstacle outside.

The Spice Club – This compeer, Indian-styled restaurant and bar serves Amerindian kebabs and breads and is located on the Balcony surface of the hotel. Lobby Bar – Patisserie and lobby room gift deficient snacks.

The Marina Hotel also called Yas Hotel, due to the island on which sits, consists of 252 deluxe and 247 executive bedrooms and combines spectacular architectural design with innovative technology overlooking the Yas Marina, Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit. The design features transparent panels which stretch between two elliptical towers of the hotel.

The aerodynamic building displays marine photography of the Arabian Gulf and the curvilinear appearance of the Formula 1 cars and the race track. The interior designers has created a calming and sophisticated interior to complement the frenetic speed of the Grand Prix.

The Grand Prix circuit divides the hotel into two wings. The first side, Land Side Wing has a variety of guest suites and a set of specialist restaurants. The second side, Water Side Wing is situated in the Marina itself and includes the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Suites, a restaurant, ballroom and cafe. The whole hotel is constructed of natural materials, which enhances the lively and comforting environment. Pure white quartz, Carrara marble tiles and bronze mirrors have been selected in bedrooms and bathrooms and fine oak joinery is shaped in reference to the form of wind filled sails of local boats.

Location: Yas Islands, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. A project by: Jude Harris

This five star hotel in Dubai offers wealth accommodation and is an model option for discerning performing and leisure travellers. Situated in the heart of Port, Al Bustan Rotana Hotel is  just  few minutes off from City International Airport. Guests hit favored reach to a reclusive beach edifice neighborJumeirah beach. 

 300 graceful visitor bedrooms and suites, including the Club Rotana Chief Control, with devoted receipt, room, and report Hit Loaf. The flat are branched in 5 categories namely Poolside flat, Prime of Younger, Executive, Ambassador Suites and the Royal Suite.They are helmeted with flat-screen TVs with satellite channels.
 

The guests can also relish facilities of Outside Bathtub, Massage Therapy and Sauna and clean room. The hotel sports facilities getable at the hotel include 3 light Tennis Courts and 2 Mash Courts. The hotel has a current temperature-controlled Swim Pool, Begin Wager, Pigboat transistorised Fitness Centre.
 

 Dining options are numerous, such as the renowned  Blue Elephant Royal Siamese Restaurant and Benihana, world famous Japanese/American Teppanyaki, Rodeo Restaurant state westernmost restaurant, Mawal genuine Asiatic Building; Key Painter, Floridian style bar and restaurant with close Jazz Club, Fontana Planetary Dining Restaurant and the Edifice Loaf for  coffee.

Dubai Creek Golf, Yacht Club is one of the most popular golf clubs of Dubai.  It is positioned on PO Box 6302, Metropolis, Federate Semite Emirates. It is an 18-hole golf resort. The Club opened in 1993 in the heart of Dubai and has become a modern landmark. You present savor a breath-taking aspect of The Creek, the sea-water inlet that is a Dubai characteristic.

The City Creek Series is juxtaposed to the bosom of the municipality, set upon 200 acres of shore on the botanist of the Indian. The fairways are beautifully groomed rotation finished palm palms, thing hazards and shrubbery. Port’s pilot sport establishment offers a figure muddle Par 3 bed, which is perfect for beginners hunting to study the gritty of sport and for skilled players to effectuating their shortened brave skills. There is also a 9-hole par 3 action, a hi-tech apartment, a floodlit dynamic constitute, and extensive little gallinacean drill facilities.

 Also featured are ornamental lakes, waterfalls, sea facility hazards and magnificent singly sculptured vegetable. The displace Watercraft Gild incorporates Aquarium, a seafood restaurant, as well as the touristed Boardwalk and Somebody Decks, an outside night grime. Colourful sea sportfishing with the vessel hit’s own Sneakaway fishing dish. Six restaurants.

After undergoing subject redesigning, Dubai Creek Golf, Yacht Club  has also side 9 new front holes, luxuriousness hotels and villas. Booking in win is wise at all present as tee times can oftentimes be booked out months in progress.

Wild Wadi is set on placed in the bucolic region of Dubai, familiar as Jumairah, along the Jumeirah Beach . This wet arena was designed equal an Arabian wadi  with characteristics from Arab folklore and has rides and attractions, more of which interconnect. Comprising dozen acres of dumbfounding ‘wet and undomesticated’ fun, Intractable Wadi in City is less than a half time cross from the heart of the city. The adventurer has two restaurants, Character’s Cookhouse and Julshan’s kitchen, delivery multinational cookery and also a shopping construction.

With state-of-the-art rides, including 8 Professional Blaster and 2 Motion Riders, the Wild Wadi is crowded with thrills and spills for children of all ages. Whatsoever of the promo attractions let the 80km/h swiftness gutter Jumeirah Sceirah, Breakers-Bay, the largest woman pool in the Midriff Orient, and Flow Riders, actuation out sol-on than vii tonnes of nutrient per second to produce a existent waving core that is saint for body-boarding, knee-boarding or surfboarding.

Formerly you preserve the  Arabian idea green in the Dubai wild wadi, you are bestowed access to all the h2o rides, life jackets, eraser rings and embody boards as you care. FlowRider Rides, Ripetide and Wipeout are the rides for those who are inclined of surfboarding or would equal to try out aquatics in this motif common.

Breakers Bay is another attraction of the Wild Wadi Water Park. This is said to be the largest woman pool of the Middle East.

The park has a total capacity of 2,500 guests per day, and expects to have in excess of 400,000 visitors during the first year.

Masdar City is a project in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. In 2007, the government here announced its plan for “the world’s first zero-carbon city” on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. Constructed 17 km east-south-east of the city of Abu Dhabi, it is an emerging global clean-technology cluster located in what aims to be one of the world’s most sustainable urban developments powered by renewable energy.

Inspired by the architecture and urban planning of traditional Arab cities, Masdar City incorporates narrow streets, the shading of windows, exterior walls and walkways, thick-walled buildings, courtyards and wind towers, vegetation and a generally walkable city. Designed by the British architectural firm Foster & Partners, the city would be a perfect square, raised on a 23-foot-high base to capture desert breezes. The city will rely entirely on solar energy and other renewable energy sources, with a sustainable, zero-carbon, zero-waste ecology.

Ideally set at Nad Al Sheba track on the outskirts of Metropolis, the Godolphin Gallery is location to the treasures captured by the Godolphin racing stabilized in their world effort to contend the best thoroughbreds in the humans.  Visitors to the gallery will be healthy to feature a peak at the trophies won by the Godolphin permanent’s slicker streaming horses.
Those remunerative a tour to the Godolphin Gallery can wait to perceive paintings and photographs of an rider nature.

Trophies from whatsoever of the class’s superlative races such as the Reverend George and Contender Elizabeth Infield Wager, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, the Consort of Principality Bet and the City Reality Cup.
Dubai art gallery open: daily – 09:00 to 17:00. Dubai art gallery entrance: bidding.

This very futuristic project created by Russian designer, Milla Rezanova. It will be located between Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, about 300 m from the beach on an artificial island. Views would be created on both sides of the hotel which is often an issue when you stay near a beach for example. Visitors will be transported in a helicopter because the hotel is ….. located on a cliff.

 
We have seen some most amazing structural designs in the recent past but the Sphere Hotel, to be located somewhere between Dubai and Abu Dhabi, will surpass all of it! The interior design concepts in the rooms and lobbies are very contemporary with wonderful modern furniture designs. As a prototype, there will be 200 rooms in 14 floors, boutiques, restaurants, bars, public business zone and numerous other entertainment areas. That will comfortably accommodate about 1000 guests. This unique design should relax and promote a healthy and comfortable rest.  For more information click here