"City of Dreams" Hotel Tower / Zaha Hadid Architects

Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a 40-story luxury hotel for Macau’s premier leisure and entertainment destination known as “City of Dreams.” Perceived as a single “sculptural element” united by an exposed exoskeleton mesh structure, the “simple volume” was extruded from its rectangular site as two towers connected at the podium and roof levels, with two organically-shaped bridges punctuating the tower’s center external void. This central void is then celebrated by a 40-meter tall, “grandiose atrium” that greets visitors as they enter the hotel.

Take a digital tour through the building and into the atrium via a newly released video, after the break...

"The tower’s exposed exoskeleton reinforces the dynamism of the design. Expressive and powerful, this external structure optimizes the interior layouts and envelops the building, further defining its formal composition and establishing relationships with the new Cotai strip," described ZHA in a press release.

"City of Dreams" Hotel Tower / Zaha Hadid Architects - Glass, Facade
Lobby Atrium . Image © Zaha Hadid Architects; 2014 Melco Crown Entertainment Limited

Once complete in early 2017, the hotel will house a retail strip, gaming area and the atrium, which includes the main reception area, lobby bar, and a flexible installation space, on the ground floor, in addition to 780 hotel units, a casino floor, specialty restaurants, a “super lounge,” VIP gaming, top floor villas and a "sky pool."

"City of Dreams" Hotel Tower / Zaha Hadid Architects - Steel
Facade Detail. Image © Zaha Hadid Architects; 2014 Melco Crown Entertainment Limited
  • Architects

  • Location

    Cotai, Macau
  • Design

    Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher
  • Project Directors

    Viviana Muscettola, Michele Pasca di Magliano
  • Facade Director

    Paolo Matteuzzi
  • Project Architects

    Maria Loreto Flores, Clara Martins, Michele Salvi
  • Project Team

    Pierandrea Angius, Luis Miguel Samanez, Massimo Napoleoni, Bianca Cheung, Miron Mutyaba, Milind Khade, Stefano Lacopini Davide, Del Giudice Luciano, Letteriello Cyril Manyara, Alvin Triestanto, Muhammed Shameel, Goswin Rothenthal, Santiago Fernandez- Achury
  • Concept Team

    Viviana Muscettola, Tiago Correia, Clara Martins, Loreto Flores, Victor Orive, Danilo Arsic, Ines Fontoura, Fabiano Costinanza, Rafael Gonzalez, Muhammed Shameel
  • Developer

    Melco Crown Entertainment Limited
  • Consultants Executive Architect

    L&O, Hong Kong
  • Local Architect

    CAA, Macau
  • Structural Engineering

    / Hong Kong
  • M&E Engineering

    JRP, Hong Kong; Buro Happold, London (Concept)
  • Facade Engineering

    Buro Happold, Hong Kong
  • Interior Designer

    Remedios Studio, Long Beach CA
  • Gaming Designer

    Friedmutter Group, Las Vegas NV
  • Quantity Surveyor

    WTP, Hong Kong
  • Lighting Design

    Isometrix, London/ Hong Kong
  • Fire Engineering

    Ove Arup, Hong Kong
  • Acoustic Consultant

    Shen Milson & Wilke, Hong Kong
  • Traffic Engineer

    MVA, Hong Kong
  • Building Contractor

    Dragages, Hong Kong
  • Area

    150000.0 sqm
  • Project Year

    2017
  • Photographs

    Zaha Hadid Architects; 2014 Melco Crown Entertainment Limited
  • Location

    Cotai, Macau
  • Project Year

    2017
  • Photographs

    Zaha Hadid Architects; 2014 Melco Crown Entertainment Limited
  • Area

    150000.0 m2
  • Mechanical & Electrical Engineer

    JRP, Hong Kong; Buro Happold, London (Concept)


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Cite: Karissa Rosenfield. ""City of Dreams" Hotel Tower / Zaha Hadid Architects" 12 Apr 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/491074/zaha-hadid-designs-city-of-dreams-hotel-tower-in-macau> ISSN 0719-8884

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