PROJECT NAME: THE HEXAGON
TYPE: MIXED OFFICE AND RES TOWER
END DATE: June 2007
Project Value : US$ 260 Mn (Dhs.954 million)

Official website: www.hexagondubai.com

Part of the The Dubai International Financial Centre
Dubai International Financial Center (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=106445)

http://www.ameinfo.com/images/news/3/6003-difc.jpg

This Project calls for the construction of a commercial and residential complex at the eastern edge of the DIFC zone. The Hexagon will be located in the ‘Park Avenue’ district of the DIFC and is characterized by its resort setting. The development shall consist of a main tower more than 50 floors high and 4 footprint buildings. All the buildings shall be mounted on a multi-level platform and will be Hexagonal shaped. The complex will feature world class smart offices, first class residences, a five star boutique hotel, quality serviced apartments and a unique roof-top garden and private business club. The Hexagon will also house a unique education campus that would be used by first tier business schools and executive education providers who wish to offer their courses in Dubai in a world class custom designed environment. The facility shall have parking space for up to 3,000 cars. The total area of the project shall be 1.4 million square feet.

Other unique features of the project include its set of private elevators in the main tower that will directly open into individual apartments and offices and the separate access routes envisaged for residential, office and other commercial units that will guarantee privacy, convenience and ease of access for tenants and visitors.

Press Release by DIFC
http://www.difc.ae/media_details.asp?FileName=NewsDetails_132.html

Seems like this one is 99.9 To go ahead I gave the project its own thread
even though that there is very little info and this is one of first sites that come up on google search
I know that the contact are being bided and this will happen soon and more details within the next month

yip this is a go , just wish we had some more info on the smaller towers as I have only added the 50 story guy to ss.com. Maybe I should make it a complex Hexagon Towers? within the DIFC Zone

Just a larger image

http://www.projectdubai.com/projects/fixed/prj52_mainbig.jpg

bit confused. this one has 50 floors and look how small it looks in this rendering! left side of pic

http://www.ayuplanet.com/dxblover/DIFC/DIFC1.jpg

anybody got new renders of difc???

am sure its just a quick render
expect this one to be 50 just waiting for more news
dont expect any thing major before middle of next year

very quick, yes.
compare the height of hexagon with height of emirates towers. it's a low-rise!

the big ones behind seem to be lattic tower and ? tower!

not sure seem some what diff to the lattic tower mock up from the paper

i agree, remeber that the computer 3D models just put a structure with a bit of shape just to put things in contact, I dont belive this is the final buildings designs but indicative of where they will be in relation to the gate

ok ok, this is crazy!!
finally we hear about another tower :happy:

Creating the ultimate business ecosystem

What is heralded as a new concept in building design has been unveiled by Swiss-based architectural design company, Creostudio for a new development called The Hexagon Dubai.
The integrated mixed-use property incorporates a business ecosystem that aims to set a new standard in real estate development.

Designed to be functional, efficient and aesthetic, The Hexagon will offer nearly 160 000 m² of premium quality commercial and residential space within the boundaries of Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The US $260 million mixed-use development is slated for completion in 2007 and features five, hexagonal-shaped buildings with a 62-storey main tower. The Hexagon will be among the first freehold property developments in Central Dubai, and will become one of DIFC’s most prominent landmarks.

The Hexagon design is based on an in-depth needs analysis of Dubai’s business community and distinguishes itself by its location, environment and concept. Most real estate projects are designed to satisfy the needs of a limited group of tenants, thus creating a landscape dominated by isolated office towers, hotels, and residential buildings. The real estate ecosystem elevates a mixed-use concept to the next level by providing new real estate and business elements, which enhance, enrich and optimise the total system.

To combat this problem, the designers of The Hexagon ecosystem aim to set a new standard in real estate development by maximising the properties long-term value through a balanced mix of real estate elements that ‘feed’ off one another. A primary user will utilise the ecosystem and becomes a customer of the secondary and tertiary infrastructure.

Markus Giebel, a director of Hexagon Holdings, the development’s primary investor, commented: “Creostudio’s design of the Hexagon takes functional efficiency to a new level. The shape and layout of the buildings combine to form an ecosystem in which the different elements – luxury residences, quality serviced apartments, smart offices, a five-star boutique hotel, an executive education centre, a private business club, a health clinic, high-end retail and restaurants – enjoy a symbiotic relationship and together create an elite professional environment.”

The office floors are designed to provide tenants with privacy in mind, along with ease of access and security. All elevators in the main office floors will open directly into the offices, eliminating unproductive public hallways. Offices will also have private elevators accessible only to authorised users. The internal security management and access control systems will provide the highest level of ‘invisible’ security through a combination of smart proximity cards and biometric identification.

The Executive Education Centre, adjacent to the networking lounge, will house world-class executive educational institutions, professional service firms, business associations and a business club. A boutique hotel has also been included.
The Investment Club, set 250 m above ground at the pinnacle of the main tower, will house a private members-only business club that offers meeting and dining facilities.
Commenting on the new development, Sheikh Juma bin Maktoum al Maktoum said: “The Hexagon is designed specifically to meet the exacting requirements of the Dubai International Financial Centre district in central Dubai. This was achieved by evaluating the needs of elite executives and professionals in Dubai and by merging these with best practices worldwide and innovative advances in Real Estate Ecosystem design. The result is an all new, architectural breakthrough that fulfils the unmet needs of Dubai.”

Creostudio believes the key differentiator for this development is the all-encompassing, holistic approach that was adopted during the design. This ensured that all the fundamental elements compliment one another to create a functional and well rounded development.

“Creostudio specialises in providing innovative, targeted solutions to meet the demanding needs of an elite client base,” said Kaveh Rahmani-Kia, general manager for the Middle Eastern operations of Creostudio SA. “Every project is different. We therefore begin each engagement by focusing on the unique requirements and objectives of the local community. We then assign a dedicated team of designers, engineers, and business professionals to tailor their designs to enhance and support the achievement of maximum value creation for its clients.”

Giebel was at pains to highlight the fact that: “The Real Estate Ecosystem takes real estate development in the 21st century to another level of value creation for investors. Our relationship with Creostudio has enabled us to realise and capture a truly exceptional value creation opportunity with The Hexagon Dubai. The Hexagon is definitely the starting point of a series of Real Estate Ecosystem developments that we shall execute worldwide with Creostudio.”

When complete, the overall development will cover 48 ha of land and provides 2 million m2 of office space, more than enough to attract large financial institutions and their vast back-of-house operations.

The masterplan for DIFC was designed by Gensler and not only provides office space but also offers residential, retail and entertainment space. The idea is that by doing this the development will not just be a place of work, but will become a community for both work and play. This concept reflects recent moves in the traditional financial centres, such as London where institutions have moved to new developments like Canary Wharf. Like many other integrated developments, such as Jumeirah Lake Towers and the litany of Palm Islands, DIFC will provide the central infrastructure, like the basic utilities, district cooling and IT cabling, up to the boundary of the individual plots. From there the developers are responsible for ‘hooking’ up their buildings to the grid.

As part of the masterplan, all the properties within the development will have to incorporate an integrated podium that occupies the first five levels, two below grade and three above. These levels will have parking spaces and retail outlets and altogether will create 250 000 m2 of retail space that starts at the almost complete Gate Building in a fully climate-controlled environment. Above the podium will be the fully pedestrianised plaza level. This level has been designed for pedestrians.

this is great news...
62 storeys...compared to the original 50
5 towers.....compared to the original 4
250m.... :cheers:

now this one is getting a bit interesting...
thanks for the info Dubai-lover
cheerz

Update 2004-12-18: The Hexagon confirmed at 250m

"The Investment Club, set 250 m above ground at the pinnacle of the main tower"
doesn't this mean that the investment club floors starts at 250m? , so the tower is taller than that...

well, the club is on the top floor
look at the renders, you can see it through the glass roof

i don't think they mean the ground of the top floor is 250
i'm convinced they mean the total height

btw: giles has added pics of a model to emporis :)

this is great news...
62 storeys...compared to the original 50
5 towers.....compared to the original 4
250m.+ I am thinking

wasent too impressed with the model i took pics of, the clours were wrong and the exposed bracing doesent to it for me. someone post the pics of the model so you guys can see what Im talking about

Cant find details of the company anywhere? someone got a URL???

The model is a cheap ripoff of the BOC in Hong Kong and is a real disappointment but the renders show the exact opposite. I really like the colors and the facade in the renders and I think if it looked like the renders in reality it would be a very beautiful tower.

Wow, I like the top.

the base is massive!

Creostudio unveils new design concept


Creostudio, a Swiss architectural design company which is behind the development of The Hexagon Dubai, has recently unveiled a new concept in building design.

http://www.gulfconstructionworldwide.com/source/xxvi/02/images/UAE-Creostudio.jpg

“The premium integrated mixed-use development incorporates a unique business ecosystem – the Real Estate Ecosystem – that sets a new standard in real estate development,” says a company spokesman.
Designed to be functional, efficient and aesthetic, ‘The Hexagon’ will offer nearly 1.6 million sq ft of premium quality commercial and residential space within the boundaries of Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
The $260 million mixed-use development is slated for completion in 2007 and features five, hexagonal-shaped buildings with a 62-storey main tower.
“The Hexagon will be among the first freehold property developments in Central Dubai, and will remain one of DIFC’s most prominent landmarks,” he says.
The Hexagon design is based on an in-depth needs analysis of Dubai’s business community and distinguishes itself by its location, environment and concept.
“Most real estate projects are designed to satisfy the needs of a limited group of tenants, thus creating a landscape dominated by isolated office towers, hotels, and residential buildings. The Real Estate Ecosystem elevates a mixed-use concept to the next level by providing new real estate and business elements, which enhance, enrich and optimise the total system,” the spokesman explains.
“The Hexagon ecosystem sets a new standard of real estate development by maximising long-term value through a balanced mix of real estate elements ‘feeding’ off each other. A primary user will utilise the ecosystem and becomes a customer of the secondary and tertiary infrastructure.”
Says Markus Giebel, director of Hexagon Holdings: “Creostudio’s design of the Hexagon takes functional efficiency to a new level. The shape and layout of the buildings combine to form an ecosystem in which the different elements – luxury residences, quality serviced apartments, smart offices, a five-star boutique hotel, an executive education centre, a private business club, a health clinic, high end retail and restaurants – enjoy a symbiotic relationship and together create an elite professional environment.”
The office floors are designed to provide tenants with unparalleled levels of privacy, ease of access and security. All elevators in the main office floors will open directly into the offices, eliminating unproductive public hallways. Offices will also have private elevators accessible only to authorised users. The integrated security management and access control systems will provide the highest level of ‘invisible’ security through a combination of smart proximity cards and biometric identification. The executive education centre, adjacent to the networking lounge, will house world-class executive educational institutions, professional service firms, business associations and a business club. Meanwhile, the five-star boutique hotel will provide the highest level of efficient service and luxury to its guests.
The investment club, set 250 m above ground at the pinnacle of the main tower, will house a private members-only business club with exclusive meeting and dining facilities.
Creostudio’s key differentiator is its all-encompassing, holistic approach to real estate development. Through the design of The Hexagon, the firm has ensured that the project is positioned as one of the most prestigious real estate developments in the Middle East.
“Creostudio specialises in providing innovative, targeted solutions to meet the demanding needs of an elite client base,” said Kaveh Rahmani-Kia, general manager for the Middle Eastern operations of Creostudio. “Every project is different. We therefore begin each engagement by focusing on the unique requirements and objectives of the local community. We then assign a dedicated team of designers, engineers, and business professionals to tailor their designs to enhance and support the achievement of maximum value creation for its clients.”
“Real Estate Ecosystem takes real estate development in the 21st century to another level of value creation for investors, says Giebel. “Our relationship with Creostudio has enabled us to realise and capture a truly exceptional value creation opportunity with The Hexagon Dubai. The Hexagon is definitely the starting point of a series of Real Estate Ecosystem developments that we shall execute worldwide with Creostudio,” he concludes.

Sounds like they thought a lot before building, impressive...

triedto find a website for this company but again no luck so we cant even try to get heights

couldn't find anything either
how depressing
such a great design of a tiny swiss company!

Great roof, but i want to see a few more pics. :)

we all want...
but unfortunately we can't get any information.
perhaps someone could go to the construction site, maybe a signboard is up...
but we do not know exact location ,do we?

triedto find a website for this company but again no luck so we cant even try to get heights
Here it is: www.creo-studio.com

They have only 4 projects on their site, 3 of them are confidential. There's also a link to the project website: www.hexagondubai.com :)

i loooove the roof feature with the garden...
very cool!

Contacted them for height and render and completion date...

greeeeaaaaat website, although just little info
my goodness what a cool tower :eek:

The website is great and the design would've been really great if I hadnt known that the initial design was all glass!

as far as location goes the area is not that big at all
will go past a have a look

yes please, take a pic from location...
what do you guess...height?
i would say 275 including spire/roof feature...

This is definately one of the best designs for dubai, this is what this city needs, puts all the towers in the marina and city to shame really except a few.

just contacted!

did that couple of hours ago...
don't think we can expect an answer..

WOW! So futuristic, like Sky City 1000.

obviously no responce, you would think that a company setting up shop in dubai like these architects would want to showcase a design such as this

DIFC seems to be like this

well like in so many cases before, the developers are just doing too well here at the moment.

The Hexagon Project is a go. They're just facing issues with internal architecture. We had a look at their plans and gave them some notes on the mistakes they'd made to efficiently use space.

The only prob they have is no local expertise!

great to hear it's really going to happen
your the man

Bad news guys, at least, I hope its not true but I got it from an inside source:

Hexagon project may be abandoned because of feasibility issues. Can any one else see if they can confirm this? I trust the guy who told me this, but still, always good to get a second opinion...

Bad news guys, at least, I hope its not true but I got it from an inside source:

Hexagon project may be abandoned because of feasibility issues. Can any one else see if they can confirm this? I trust the guy who told me this, but still, always good to get a second opinion...

ahh God not this building

i hope they can change plans and make it go through
please don't cancel this awesome tower!!

noooo not my lovely hexagon...my favourite...why?!

:gunz: :hm: :goodnight

no not good

http://www.gulfconstructionworldwide.com/source/xxvi/02/images/UAE-Creostudio.jpg

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Look At the BankWestTower In all of them. :)

so what's up with this, a possible "never built"?

well there is something happening on the site where this tower is due to go , hoarding is up and piling rigs at work, so maybe its happening and we dont even know it yet.
Loads happeing at the rear of DIFC too with piling rigs and massive basement excavations

we saw that from chelsea tower, a lot of ground work, but nothing further to see.

in difc there only is one plot fenced in
suppose it's sky gardens

its across the road from DIFC directly opposite the gate. Its where the Hexagon was always due to go. Diagonally across from the emirates towers

Dennis , need to update the DIFC sticky with Daman towers and these new 26F ones :)

you're probably right, but there is nothing to see yet
no chance to access either :(

if you can tell me the exact location for the new difc towers i'll edit my map

I reacon the Daman towers is the L shaped building next to Liberty Towers. As for the EF towers , I have no idea sorry mate

Hi guys,
Just got news that the Hexagon project has been approved after they've made the changes internally to their engineering designs. The launch should happen in September.

great!!thanks
so it will be built the way we know it?

puh
thanks for the good news

this one is to beautiful to cancel it ;)

glad to hear it has not been cancelled

It's alive.

:pepper:

i only believe it when it's under c
nothing on the site yet :(

i believe butterfly.
at least i want to...
the shock would be too hard for me , if the hexagon AND damac HQ are cancelled.
i would die maybe.

Isn't this supposed to be launched properly in September after they changed the floorplans? I remember reading something like this.

i believe butterfly.
at least i want to...
the shock would be too hard for me , if the hexagon AND damac HQ are cancelled.
i would die maybe.

:weirdo:

with every dubai Skyscraper becoming a never built i lose a little bit of my life.
aren't you feeling the same ;)

Come on Flo, don't say all that ... who'll take care of the little penguin then ...


:D

LOL you can remember that ;)
i should stop to tell you details of my life.
but little Flo would be very sad.
i will stop visiting this forum at the moment i am close to death.

Is 2007 now too far fetched?!

its look like library in the top lol

just another render

http://www.branduae.com/images2/dx7.gif

i really hoped the 2-4th towers would be higher :(

check out the website.. some pretty cool renders

www.hexagondubai.com

website didn't change for months

why is this one taking so long? :ohno:

Like this building a lot, has to get built!

everything in DIFC takes ages .. . :bash:

^ Maybe the huge underground parking and mall have something to do with it ;)

i heard that this building was scrapped due to the badly designed rooms.... is it now back from the dead?

we cannot be sure, because nothing has happened in difc so far
on the other hand, this project has been announced more than a year ago

untypical for dubai!

Didn't the same person said that they changed the interiour design and it got approved?

DIFC tower's were always going to take ages. But DIFC is a quility development with under ground parking lead's ahead of other dubai developments. You dont rush the middle easts new international hub.

we cannot be sure, because nothing has happened in difc so far
on the other hand, this project has been announced more than a year ago

untypical for dubai!

I guess.... things here are moving soooooooo slowly....

But DIFC is a quility development with under ground parking lead's ahead of other dubai developments.

not quite.....

you see all those little buildings inbetween Emirates Towers? They are all car parking buildings. LOL

http://a.relaunch.focus.de/img/gen/I/G/HBIGAQna4mJ_Pxgen_r_340x250.jpg

What a waste!

where do you mean ?

i have seen DIFC plans in detail - those low rises "in between" emirates towers in the above image are not carparks but actually part of a development called The Gate Village.

these are 5/6 floor office buidlings with retail on ground floor.

.... and these buildings will be completed in 2 or 3 months
glass facade is there already
looks very good!

http://www.branduae.com/images2/dx7.gif

i don't like the fact that there is still nothing and no news about difc and this project in particular
frustrating!!

This tower looks cool.

The homepage doesn't exist anymore and I have somehow the impression that i have seen the picture of the tower YEARS ago in a children book about skyscrapers when I was maybe 7 years old...

Pretty sure. Next time I will be home i try to find it....

not too sure what is going to happen to this one also.

might be never built.

think this tower became cancelled

This one must be dead, the company behind it is in trouble. See the Handelsregister (http://www.moneyhouse.ch/u/pub/nexus_capital_sa_CH-170.3.026.286-3.htm) entry (in German) for Nexus Capital SA.

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/3235/hexagondubaiue9.jpg

You can still view the website with the Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050222074604/http://www.hexagondubai.com

Doesn't the government do any reasearch before permitting these losers to come up with multi-million dollar projects? I mean, aren't there some criteria one must fulfill?

Geez!

...

Anyway, I'm changing this to Stale Proposal since that's what it is. There has been no news for ages.

The towre looks very nice.

Doesn't the government do any reasearch before permitting these losers to come up with multi-million dollar projects? I mean, aren't there some criteria one must fulfill?

Geez!

Once again the influence of the place you're living is heavily affecting your capacity to be rational and considerate ... or in short words: You don't know what you're talking about.

It's time to move this into the thread archieve!!!

Once again the influence of the place you're living is heavily affecting your capacity to be rational and considerate ... or in short words: You don't know what you're talking about.


If DIFC made a press-release about it, then i suppose they knew it would be completed right? Or am i still irrational here?

What a shame that this building won't rise

hopefully another firm picks up this project

hopefully another firm picks up this project

^^ Me, too.

plz build it *cry*

it is stil on the major projects pdf.. but goldem dome also is..

OK PPL ANY HOT NEWS BOUT IT...IT NEEDS TO BE DONE SOOOON ..I LIKE IT ALOT:ohno:

i think they won't build it

schiesse:ohno: ^^ why not?

Sad BTW the golden dome was fake it was debunked ages ago !

How would a good developer go about taking over the hexagon?