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Pictures of the Day: This is what a 7-star looks like!

Posted on September 4, 2006
Filed Under >Adil Najam, Architecture, Economy & Development, Travel
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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!


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I am not sure we need any more discussion about whether this hotel is a good idea or not. But what about the design? Is this eye-candy or eye-sore? Will this really take us to the ‘next frontier’ (apologies for the pun)? Does this look more like ‘heaven on earth’ or ‘pie in the sky’?What do you think?

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  1. ahsan says:
    June 22nd, 2007 10:21 am

    this is a magnific 7 star hotel in pakistan islamabad.

    i think this hotel is so nice this hotels looks like
    and i want to lunch there hahahaha exelent 7 star hotel in pakistan

  2. chief sabhib says:
    June 14th, 2007 2:34 pm

    When we will reach the stage when we are trying to build the top college in the world as compared to the tallest building etc. All the ingenuity is foreign in such projects. I would like to see Dubai make the worlds most open and well funded university for once rather than spending money on castles in the sky.

  3. NAVID MAQSOOD says:
    June 14th, 2007 9:57 am

    all the stupids which are giving different names to this marvalous building felt shame off themselves.what so ever it is atleast it is in pakistan and we must love with every thing of our country.i m in uk and i feel proud to telling every body here that there is a second seven star hotel in pakistan.its proud of pakistan.so plz dont disgrace it infront of other nations.

  4. junaid says:
    May 28th, 2007 11:47 am

    this building to me is fantastic you wont get another building like this anywere, pakistan will be very soon the next tourist attraction place
    so all of you people who dont think pakistan can make a magnificent building liek this i say you all do 1 and get lost

  5. May 14th, 2007 6:54 am

    i mean the ground breaking has started.

  6. May 14th, 2007 6:46 am

    no,the ground has started.

  7. Oh Really says:
    May 13th, 2007 9:12 am

    Oh, really.
    I live in New York and do not even know a single person who has even heard of this, let alone going ‘crazy’ about this.
    Speaking of crazy, do you work for the people supposedly building this?
    My family in Islamabad tells me there is still NO real construction of anything at the site. And from the picture it looks like a rather silly monstrosity.

  8. May 13th, 2007 8:49 am

    oh and let me also tell you guys that the foreigners are going crazy to this building!!!!(that’s what my friend had told me living in newyork)

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