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Dubai Signature Towers, Building, Property, Images, Architect, Picture
Dubai Signature Towers : Information + Design
Architecture in UAE : Design by Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
DUBAI BUSINESS
BAY - SIGNATURE TOWERS [Dubai, UAE]
2006-tbc
PROGRAM: Mixed-Use Development Competition; Offices, Hotel, Residential,
Retail, Bridge, WaterfrontPark and Promenade

Dubai Signature Towers - Description
Zaha Hadids design for the Signature Towers confirms the role
of Business Bay Development at the very forefront of Dubais
rapidly changing future. The three towers rise above the creek and
project themselves as an icon for the surrounding developments and
for the gulf region. The tower’s striking design creates a new presence
that punctures the skyline with a powerful recognizable silhouette.
The fluid character of the towers is generated through an intrinsically
dynamic composition of volumes. The towers are inter-twined to share
programmatic elements and rotate to maximize the views from the site
towards the creek and neighbouring developments. The design quality
of the towers to act as a symbol and icon extends beyond their scale
and location. These qualities are derived from the boldness of the
architectural concept, from the ‘choreographed’ movement that combines
the three towers in one overall gesture and ‘weaves’ with a series
of public spaces through the podium, the bridges and the landscape
beyond.
Context
There will, in the future, be a silhouette of towers, whose pinnacles
will represent the hearts of the new districts within the greater
metropolitan area of Dubai. On the ground, the Business Bay development
site will become stitched into the proposed extended road and infrastructure
network of the enlarged metropolitan area. The new pedestrian routes
and roads passing under and around the Towers’ development will extend
across the creek, bringing people directly from Sheikh Zayed Road
via a grid of major and minor thoroughfares and boulevards.
Connectivity and Public Space
The site is composed by 4 different parts: (A) central circular plot,
(B) an elongated park plot, (C) the surface of the creek on axis of
plot A and (D) a rectangular plot across the creek at the west margin.
Connectivity between these parts becomes therefore central to the
project; in order to produce an articulated design that encompasses
both the scale and the different qualities of each of the parts, transforming
them into a coherent scheme. The circular shape of the plot and attached
vehicular circulation layout creates a barrier of vehicular traffi
c around the site, generating an island that detaches the plot from
the waterfront promenade. By incorporating the design of two new link
bridges and a new ground the project effectively multiplies the potential
and connectivity of the site, linking the park at the East - via the
towers with the water’s edge at the West margin of the creek.
Programme
Programming of public and private life is an active tool to inject
life into the space, integrating new layers of activity and landscape,
creating a network of synergetic uses that can develop a new urban
ecology. The programme was addressed as a whole with the three towers
corresponding directly to the three main functions: offi ces, hotel
and residential. Together, the towers generate a critical mass of
sustainable programmatic relationships. The towers share a common
base / podium, designed as a materialized shadow of the towers and
programmed with retail, restaurants and amenities that support the
demand from the tower’s population. The three towers are conjoined
two by two, the Offices and the Hotel at the base and the Hotel and
the Residential at the top. Through these adjacencies, the towers
are strategically organized in a symbiotic relation, sharing certain
segments of the programme. The advantage of joining the three towers
in one organism, allows the development to be lived in a full day
cycle: anchored in it’s residential population, it reaches the peak
of activity during office hours and it mutates through the diversity
of the ever-changing population of the hotel. The heterogeneous population
mix creates a cosmopolitan urban environment, constantly energized
and renovated through it’s own life.
Dubai Signature Towers - Information + Images from Zaha Hadid Architects
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Business Bay Towers
design : Zaha Hadid Architects
Abu Dhabi Guggemheim by Zaha Hadid
Architects
Dubai Signature Towers - Building Information
CLIENT: Dubai Properties, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
ARCHITECT: Design Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Project Architect Chris Lepine
Project Director Lars Teichmann
Project Team Chris Lepine, Stephan Wurster, Eren Ciraci, Alessio Costantino,
David Campos Hoda Nobakhti, Chryssanthi Perpatidou, Bowornwan May Noradee,
Nahed Jawad, Hussam Chakouf, Bassam Al Shiekh, Daniel Norell, Tomas Rabl,
Chiara Ferrari, Erhan Patat
Project architect [competition] Tiago Correia
Design team [competition] Ana Cajiao, Saleem Abdel-Jalil, Sophie Le Bienvenu,
Hooman Talebi, Mathias Reisigl, Diego Rosales, Tyen Masten, Daewha Kang,
Renos Constantino, Graham Modlen
SIZE/ TOTAL AREA: 500,000 m2
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