Full Moon Hotel
| Full Moon Hotel | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Status | Construction |
| Type | Hotel, Restaurant |
| Location | Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Construction started | 2012 |
| Completed | present |
| Height | |
| Roof | 158 m (518 ft) |
| Top floor | 157 m (515 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 35 |
| Floor area | 104,182 m2 (1,121,410 sq ft) |
| Lifts/elevators | 10 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Heerim Architects |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 382[1] |
| Website | |
| http://www.skyscrapernews.com/news.php?ref=1357 | |
| While officially this hotel has a 5-Star rating, the Full Moon says it is a 5-Star Deluxe hotel, and it says it is the world's second 7-Star hotel in advertising after the Burj Al Arab.[1] | |
The Full Moon Hotel is a building under construction building in Baku, Azerbaijan on the western shore of the Caspian Sea. Hotel Full Moon is essentially a disc with rounded edges and a hole in one of the top corners that appears radically different from the view depending on the angle it is seen from. The front aspect is reminiscent of a glass Death Star but from the side profile it looks much like any ordinary glass tower. The Full Moon Hotel is planned to counterpoint to the Aypara (Crescent) Tower under construction around the bay in fromt of the Port Baku buildings and will further add to the 'new Dubai' feel of the city's 21st century architecture.
Design
Changing appearance depending on the view is reinforced by the cladding treatment the architect has selected. The front will have a glass diagrid while the back will be covered with hexagonal honeycombs shaped windows.
This main building will be a 35 story luxury hotel with 104,182 square metres of space for only 382 rooms, a relatively small amount of rooms given the sheer size of the internal space on offer. It will reach a maximum height of 158.68 metres.
The hotel is linked via a zoomorphically shaped podium that snakes curvaceously around the boundaries of the site to two residential apartment blocks entitled Palace of Wind One and Palace of Wind Two.[2]
Construction
The Construction of The Full Moon began in the late first quarter of 2008. The architect and engineering consultant for the project was Heerim Architects, one of South Korea's largest multidisciplinary consultancies. The hotel is being built by Azerbaijani construction contractors. The entire project, which includes the hotel itself and two skyscrapers, (Palace of Wind One and Palace of Wind Two) will approximately cost $250 million to build.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 "Article - 1357 - Full Moon Rising".
- ↑ 7-звездочная гостиница в столице Азербайджана (ОБНОВЛЕНО) [7-star hotel in the capital of Azerbaijan (UPDATE)] (in Russian). Baku.ws. 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2 November 2014.