Dubai is known for breaking records in many fields, but especially architecture! It has time and again gone beyond the expected and the usual, in constructing the world's tallest buildings, be it the tallest hotel, tallest residential skyscraper etc. This time, Dubai is looking to ace another peak- both literally and metaphorically. It is looking to open the world's tallest hotel, and is all set to inaugurate it amidst loud cheers from the local and global population. If this doesn't make you sit up and take notice, we wonder what will!
The 75-storey Gevora Hotel stands 356m tall. Magnificent, right? Enough to send your eyeballs popping all the way to your head? Yes indeed, we should say! It is indeed an architectural wonder and an engineering feat - a lethal combination. This hotel will floor people for years to come.
Dubai is also home to Burj Khalifa. What is that, you ask? Well, just the world's tallest building, in general! Quite the record-breaker in architecture our Dubai is for sure!
It towers above the skyline of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Primarily constructed from steel and concrete, the building was designed by the same architects responsible for other famous super-talls like the Willis Tower in Chicago and One World Trade Center in New York City.
The tall towers pierce the sky, and sunlight shifts like it was made to scatter by sheer height of these tall buildings in Dubai! But, what exactly are we celebrating here? Definitely not just the height. We are also celebrating symbolic outpouring of money, confidence, ambition, and energy consumption. We are celebrating the will to make a difference, to stand out amidst mediocrity in the shifting contours of the world we live in.
Travelers with a penchant for heights will know already that Gevora's tower just barely trounces another Dubai sleeping spot -- the JW Marriott Marquis, which is just a meter shorter and was formerly the world's tallest hotel. The view from the top is exponential : vast shopping malls, bland office towers, sprawling residential developments, outsized ornamental fountains etc. And, judging by the images released so far, the feel is more like looking out of a plane than a building. It has made reality a little more surreal and a little less 'real'.
The hotel is wonderfully sleek and elegant, and the interiors are just as marvellous as the structure. The interiors are a polished setting in marble and chiselled stones, and the rooms are done up in beautiful, varied colours. The soft, inviting look is not compromised, either. There is a disarming combination of sophistication and inherent warmth.
In 2018, several buildings will be competing to be the tallest. Jeddah tower in Saudi Arabia is all set to become the tallest building, after all the Gulf strikes again! Yes, you have read it right. The world’s ‘new’ tallest building, it seems, will become a reality in 2020, finally surpassing Dubai’s 828-meter skyscraper. Finally, Dubai will have some competition vertically!
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