The tower features retail space on the first floor, a Singaporean-style hawker centre on the second floor, and the full featured health club on the sixth floor.
Office floor featured numerous garden and multistory verandas. Providing a varied and pleasing work environment, the top floor features services offices and an expensive roof garden inside a luminous glass crown. The elegant, multi-layered tower promises to be distinctive within Dubai, development and a worthy representative of the Republic of Singapore.
The character of the lattice varies according to the program it encloses. The lattice on the featured façade is empty, exposing the vine cascading down its full length. The cells of the lattice on the remaining three façade hold either copper strips, glass, or nothing, depending on weather the lattice face office space, garden space, or the building’s crown.
The entire north façade is covered in a cascade of vines, referencing Singapore’s famous greenery. Vines grow down from planter boxes located approximately at each floor; the vine themselves are an especially tough and attractive species, lpomea pes capris (“beach morning glory”).
Envisioned to make UAE a global commercial and business centre, the Business Bay is a new city within the city of Dubai and is created as a commercial and business cluster along the new extension of the famous Dubai Creek extending from Ras Al Khor to Sheikh Zayed Road. The Business Bay comprises of 230 buildings, attracting commercial and residential developments including the Burj Dubai.
The Dubai Mall located in Downtown Burj Dubai is one of the largest malls in the world, will be the premier lifestyle destination for shopping and entertainment. It is a shopper’s paradise featuring 1,200 retail outlets, two anchor department stores, a 220-store Gold Souk and more than 150 food and beverage outlets – all masterfully spread over an astonishing area totalling 12.1 million square feet.