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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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?

88 responses to “Pictures of the Day: This is what a 7-star looks like!”

  1. BD says:

    I think its ugly as sin.

    Ugliness and Sin are of course relative :P

  2. Maleeha says:

    I think its ugly as sin.

  3. mansoor says:

    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

  4. Aziz Akhmad says:

    At first sight it looks like a pointed Shuttle or a missile about to be launched. More on this later.

  5. Asma says:

    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 .. :/

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