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Dubai Festival City

architect

 various

location

 on the eastern bank of Dubai Creek

date

 2002-2017

type

 series of residential communities, numerous hotels, malls, a golf course and other entertainment sites, and a full suite of public services, including schools.
 
  From left to right: Marsa Plaza (residential), Festival Tower (offices), and InterContinental Dubai Festival City (hotel); on 31 January 2007
 
  Marsa Plaza on 31 May 2007
 
 
  Dubai Festival City on 1 May 2007
 
 
 
 
  Crowne Plaza Dubai Festival City
   
Dubai Festival City
Dubai Festival City
Dubai Festival City, U.A.E.
commissioned by   Al-Futtaim Group
in conjunction with   COX Group and Crone Architects
Working with COX Crone Architects, CONTEXT prepared the Landscape Master Plan for Stage II Dubai Festival City in the United Arab Emirates. The development incorporates residential and commercial buildings set within a high quality urban realm fronting Dubai Creek. A key initiative of the scheme is the thirty-two metre wide waterfront promenade or ‘Corniche’, linking a range of recreational landscape and urban settings including a boat quay, themed ’oases’, and artificial lagoons. The particular emphasis has been placed on energizing day and night use, with wide pavements, integrated furniture, lighting, signage and water feature animation.
Dubai Festival City
Dubai Festival City, U.A.E.
commissioned by   Al-Futtaim Group
in conjunction with   COX Group and Crone Architects

Dubai Festival City
Thanks to http://www.context.net.au/home.html
 
Dubai Festival City (In Arabic: دبي فستيفال سيتي) is a large residential, business and entertainment development in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Touted as a "city-within-a-city", Dubai Festival City is the Middle East's largest mixed-use development: all elements for work, living, and leisure will be contained within the project. Once completed Festival City will comprise a series of residential communities, numerous hotels, malls, a golf course and other entertainment sites, and a full suite of public services, including schools.

Description
The developer for Dubai Festival City is Al Futtaim Group. Construction of the development, which is largely being carried out by Al Futtaim Carillion[1], began in 2003 and is expected to take 12 years. The project spans 3.8 kilometres (2.4 miles) of water frontage on the eastern bank of Dubai Creek and is 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) from Dubai International Airport. As of mid-2006, investments in the project had exceeded 11 billion AED (3 billion USD).

Hotels
The development also includes 5 hotels, three of which are to be opened in 2007 and will be managed by InterContinental Hotels Group. The InterContinental Dubai Festival City and the Crowne Plaza Dubai Festival City are directly connected to the Festival Waterfront Centre. The InterContinental Residence Suites, located in Marsa Plaza, will provide long term stay apartments with stunning view of Dubai Creek.

The other two hotels in the project will include the 350-room W Dubai - Festival City (to be operated by the W brand of Starwood Hotels), opening at the end of 2008, and the 400-room Four Seasons Hotel Dubai Festival City, scheduled to open in 2010.

Shops, stores and restaurants
The complex includes retail malls known as the Festival Power Centre, which opened in May 2006 and the Festival Waterfront Centre, which opened on 1 March 2007.

 


Due to open in the second quarter of 2007, the InterContinental Dubai Festival City and the Crowne Plaza Dubai Festival City are to implement the Delphi Multi-Property Edition sales & banqueting solution from Newmarket International for selling and delivering events and conferences.

Tom Meyer, Area General Manager, InterContinental Hotels Group, Dubai Festival City, commented on the decision, “The InterContinental and Crowne Plaza hotels at Dubai Festival City represent a key component of our global growth plan. We needed to carry our standards of quality and service right through our events and banqueting business, so we chose Delphi. The success that InterContinental Hotels Group properties have had with Delphi around the world assures us that we will be building our groups, conference, and events business in the UAE on a strong foundation of technology and service.”

A shared resource for all of the InterContinental Hotels Group properties at Dubai Festival City, the state-of-the-art Events Centre is situated directly below the Crowne Plaza Dubai Festival City. It offers dramatic views of historic Dubai Creek and encompasses 4,500 square meters (13,500 square feet) of conference and events space across two levels, divisible into ten break-out rooms offering services for small board meetings or large banquets of up to 1,800 guests. There is a 24-hour business centre and hi-speed Wi-Fi internet access in all public areas.

InterContinental Hotels Group expects to establish the Dubai Festival City properties as a Middle East hub for groups, conferences, and events of all types as Dubai continues its phenomenal growth as a center for business and tourism. Delphi Multi-Property Edition enables InterContinental Hotels Group to set and achieve clear sales targets toward that goal, deliver superior service on large and small events alike, and maximize return on its Dubai Festival City assets.

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