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Yas Hotel | Abu Dhabi | 2009

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new york based asymptote architecture is nearing completion of their yas hotel project,
in abu dhabi, uae. the yas hotel is a 500-room, 85,000-square-meter complex which is
due to open on october 30, 2009 to coincide with the formula 1 etihad airways,
abu dhabi grand prix.

the yas hotel is part of the ambitious 36-billion-dollar yas marina development
and accompanying formula 1 raceway circuit, which is also near completion.

the main feature of the project's design is a 217-meter expanse of sweeping, curvilinear
forms constructed of steel and 5,800 pivoting diamond-shaped glass panels. this grid
shell component affords the building an architecture comprised of an atmospheric
like veil that contains two hotel towers and a link bridge constructed as a monocoque
sculpted steel object passing above the formula 1 track that makes its way through
the building complex. the grid-shell visually connects and fuses the entire complex
together while producing optical effects and spectral reflections that play against the
surrounding sky, sea and desert landscape. the architecture as a whole 'performs' as
both an environmentallyresponsive solution as well as an architecture of spectacle
and event.














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All images from here and here.
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This hotel is amazing! I love the shape, the glass, and the quality. Usually buildings with weird shapes come out really bad looking and cheap (unless they're in Europe) but this one came out amazingly good!

It's one of the best buildings of 2009 and definitely in the top 100 best buildings of the decade in my opinion.
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This is interior of a spaceship design. I like that.

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Interesting, looks tough to build. Look like they didnt want the building to get wet so they built a rain fly over it.
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Looks nice. Hopefully the overhang shades the hotel from the sun instead of intensifying it. Glass walls really are a terrible choice for desert building. I might be expecting too much though, this is a hotel built over a speedway. Hardly a temple of environmentalism. Also, those are some fantastic renders! The most amazing thing is that they're not covered in clipart people climbing the facades or herding reindeer(or some other unrealistic silly stuff).
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