Adil Najam
For all of those, me included, who wondered what a 7-star hotel looks like; this is it.
To find out what it feels like, you will have to wait an indefinite amount of time until this surreal StarTrek-like structure actually comes about in Islamabad. Will it? And if it does will it really look like this!
This would have made a great photo-quiz had written about the hotel a few days ago, had Asma not already posted the URLs to these pictures as a comment on that post, and had these pictures not been flying around in all sorts of emails from Pakistan. Despite all of the above, I thought they would still make a great post; maybe some of the koolness will rub off on the site. And I am sure the builders could do with some more free publicity.
Plus, as regular readers know, I have a thing for pictures with tullas (cops) in them (see here, here and here). And this one – even though imaginary – has that traffic cop perched right in the foreground. By the way, don’t miss the helicopter hovering above (near the helipad) either!
In a country where plastic replicas of missiles,discarded fighter planes and submarines are used as architectural embellishments at the intersections of major citie I am not surprised that a “7-star” hotel in the country’s capital is designed to look like a space shuttle on the launching pad.
By the way, has the design been approved by CDA?
Hate the building design. Love the old pictures of the cop you have linked in the post. Get more of that guy with the ‘muchh’ in teh linked picture and drop the building.
Actually, its teh second of your three pictures here that is most ugly. This could not be to scale, is it?
its definately eye candy.
Frankly, it will be an eye sore on the Islamabad skyline – this monstrous building sticking out and above the rest. Yuck!
Ugliness and Sin are of course relative :P
I think its ugly as sin.
its definately eye candy. One of the factors which came into a discussion i had about the hotel with my grand dad, was its resistance to earthquakes, following the tragedy at Margalla Hills.
Jaded, subsided those fears at isb metblog.. atleast partially.. its one thing to design a building as earthquake resistant.. is quite another to BUILD it as earthquake resistant.. especially here in Pakistan
At first sight it looks like a pointed Shuttle or a missile about to be launched. More on this later.
Lolz :)
well an entertainemnt for Islooittes atleast :) after few years though …!
GHQ is coming to islamabad and now this 7-star drama … I want same sense of serenity in my city nooo lahori hungamas .. :/