One of ME Dubai's undulating bedrooms

The London-based starchitect's hotel is set to offer visitors to Dubai a futuristic break from the norm

“Starchitect”-designed hotels are nothing new, but if the latest renderings of ME Dubai are anything to go by, this Zaha Hadid-designed property looks set to have an aesthetic all of its own.

Found within The Opus, a mixed-use commercial and retail building, and set to open in 2016, the 100-bedroom ME Dubai hotel will stand in the city’s Burj Khalifa district. The area is home to the world’s tallest building – the aforementioned Burj Khalifa – and the world’s largest shopping mall and is one of the emirate’s most popular tourist destinations.

One of the hotel's duplex residences

Complementing earlier renderings that show a seemingly molten lobby, the latest CGIs distributed by Hadid’s office show starkly finished rooms with undulating walls and floor-to-ceiling windows. The muted colour palette will provide a welcome alternative to travellers who have tired of the golds and purples that are so liberally applied to many other luxury hotels in Dubai, but details of what the customer experience will be like remain limited. Meliá Hotels International, owner of ME “contemporary resorts and urban hotels” has said the hotel will feature internationally recognised restaurant brands, while other ME hotels feature facilities such as “aura managers”, who operate as personal concierges....Continue Reading

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