Macau is often called the world capital of gambling - numerous casinos, gaming and nightclubs are found here literally at every step. The object, for which Zaha Hadid received an order from Melco Crown Entertainment Limited, will be no exception. A development company specializing in the construction of hotels and casinos in Asia is implementing a project of a multifunctional hotel and gaming complex City of Dreams in the Cotai region, consisting of several high-rise buildings. The hotel itself, which is being designed by the Hadid bureau, will become the fifth tower of the City of Dreams: in addition to 780 standard rooms, suites and villas, it will house game rooms, a spa, a heavenly pool and restaurants.
The small-sized rectangular plot dictated the shape of the parallelepiped of the future building. However, Hadid would not have been herself if she had not given this volume an emphatically futuristic outlines. The original parallelepiped receives "melted" corners, and the architects cut out its central part, throwing several covered passages of different heights through the resulting opening. The glazed walls of both the building and the galleries are braided with wide ribbons of white concrete. The architects themselves compare the resulting structure with an exoskeleton - a controlled robot-spacesuit worn on a person and multiplying his physical capabilities. Such a structure makes traditional building elements such as walls, windows and roofs very conventional, while allowing optimization of floor layouts.
The main play area will be located on the first three floors of the building, which are integrated into a single stylobate for all City of Dreams skyscrapers. This zone is planned to be organized around the central space of the hotel - a 40-meter atrium. Game rooms for VIP guests, in turn, are located on the upper level of the complex, next to the most spacious apartments - the so-called sky villas.
The total area of the tower is 150,000 m2, height - 40 floors. The construction of the hotel is scheduled for completion in 2017.
