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!
To me the three side buildings are eye candy as they are symmetrical. The main hotel building seems like a plagiarized version of famous ‘burj’ hotel of Dubai where curved architecture has been eased out to straight lines giving it a triangular shape. An eye sore in my opinion. I am a fan of old fashioned architecture where geometry is kept simple.
[quote comment="2127"]Did you notice the similarity between this and the Burj Al Arab.
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It’s designed by the same architects who designed Burj-al-Arab.
The design itself is passable, but it looks out of place in Islamabd. One pointy tall building rising out of the middle with no surrounding buildings to compliment it.
Did you notice the similarity between this and the Burj Al Arab.
Oh and the helipad…yes, see this page to see what it can be used as!
http://www.burj-al-arab.com/tennis/
On a second look, the pointed structure looks like a pylon toppled by a windstorm. And the three structures behind it look like the batteries of my camera.
BD, one can avert his/her eyes from ugliness, and one is punished for his/her sins. But this monstrosity is going to be thumbing its nose at us for at least a couple of generations — until, of course, nature also feels offended and takes care of it sooner.
“well an entertainemnt for Islooittes atleast :) after few years though …!
So it is ok to call Islamabad as ‘Isloo’ and not to build a modern looking building in the heart of the town!!!
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.
rofl. well said!