Proposed: $134m Digital Sports Hotel

[Qatar4Ever]

QFA plans $134m luxury Digital Sports hotel

Doha: The Qatar Football Association has announced two mega-projects that include a $134m seven-star luxury hotel and a $94m village dedicated to mobile telecommunication technology.

The 30-storey Digital Sports hotel is viewed as a pace-setter in the country's vibrant tourism industry, which is poised for a boom with the upcoming Asian Games in 2006.

What makes this new hotel so unique is the original concept of the digital sports gaming areas housed within the extra space of the hotel's exterior giving a beautiful and exciting façade to a deceivingly simple yet modern structure.

The Digital Sports Games space includes a floor dedicated to the Sports Competition Hall which will offer the chance to players to share their games with spectators.

This area will also include a fully equipped Sports Conference Hall for such events as sharing of sports knowledge, press meetings, sports stars interviews as well as sports, sports' product and event launches, cinema/projection room for live sporting action and live sports events from around the world.

All rooms will be digitally equipped with large flat screens and projection screens for all international sports channels as well as other TV and entertainment channels.

The activities here will include special sports management training through interactive digital software to encourage and promote a new league of professional sports managers.

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[MillenniaL]

:omg::eek2::eek2:
do you know where the location will be?from the pic it seems to be in al cornice

[Qatar4Ever]

Im thinking somewhere behind the olympics tower and the ministry of education. In that area !!

[MillenniaL]

but in the first pic there is water !!! if you say it would be behind the olympics tower and the ministry of education ,so where the water come from?!:weird:

[Qatar4Ever]

talggy the guy who designed was lebanese or something and told the qatari owner.. shooof ya zalmaa kaif 7iloww jamb il ba7eeer... hehe...

its sort of like the house design pics u see where a one story house has a copy pasted pics of a rolls royace in the gardage, three kids running after a ball on the street and a blond lady in a suit holding a briefcase standing on the corner

[MillenniaL]

:hahaha::hahaha::hahaha:
say it from the begining taht the designer is lebanese .:hahaha::hahaha::hahaha:. le3bathom elzalamat to fool their clients ...

[wakrah-wi-bas]

i like the design of the hotel tower, but hate the colored box adjacent to it.
mayeb they'll build it @ the sport city, who know's.

[Qatar4Ever]

I think the colored box is like a big screen tv or something ..

[wakrah-wi-bas]

the financial adviser to the projects is a relative of mine, and no...he's not lebanese, for u cynical people out there :D , so i'll ask him for some more infos on the projects, although my mind tells me that it's an intiative under the directions of the country's political command, bcoz the FA is so helpless to come up with such creative projects !!!

[Moody]

Ugly building..

[MillenniaL]

Wakrah wi bas … did you get any thing new from your relative?

[mohammad]

Hey cool, a sports hotel. :D
Just imagine:
A room with over 200 sports channels, Michael Jordan's deluxe suite, basketball floor panels, an American football bath soap, LOL.

Oh yea, we could also have a couple of sports stores on ground level. :rofl: Seriously though, I love the idea.

[Dubai-Lover]

funny building

very weird that projects in qatar are announced very late
everything should be finished in 2006, but they haven't even started

doesn't make sense :dunno:

[MillenniaL]

We are always late :colgate:… nothing new with that!!
I wish it will be ready for the Asian games:|

[Qatar4Ever]

There is nothing that says it will be done by 2006. It is scheduled for 2008 according to the arabic newspapers.

[MillenniaL]

Good ,in 2008 I will be graduated :clown:( I hope so :D) ,so I can do my graduation party there:cheers1:

[salman515]

Is this one of the old renders for aspire ?

[suzan]

I think we should ask about what happened to this project!!

[Qatar Son 333]

this was old older than i thout

[omarmakki]

I don't think this is an old render for the Aspire Tower...
I mean, Aspire Tower is nowhere near any kind of water.

[Halawala]

Its not related to ASPIRE TOWER, but remember there was an article on the same day about a TELEPHONE village shaped like a phone. That idea was also abandoned.

[Qatar Son 333]

your absalutly right there is no water aroun the tower

[AlexanderSS]

This building is under construction? -> According to this diagram it should be under construction: http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b48258

[suzan]

^^ True.. the National Library is also under construction, but we dont know! (well,.. not me!)

[Halawala]

Frankly, a lot of the towers are proposed then dissapear, and I dont know what happened to them. Then they reappear again and become underconstruction after years. Maybe its a money issue.

[4I.â.B4]

This building is under construction? -> According to this diagram it should be under construction: http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b48258

It is really u/c

heres another evidence : from GULF TIMES

According to QNB, the highest number of 2,118 rooms was coming up at Bavaria Suites. The new luxury rooms in other hospitality facilities are; Al Jaidah (496), Retaj Tower (462), Dubai Towers (424), Al Jazeera Tower (369), Qatar Silouette Tower (351), West Bay Resort (350), Almana Suites (350), Movenpick Suites and Residence (349), Oasis International (346), Hilton Doha (320), Al Maha Sofitel (300), Barjeel Tower (284), Rotana (277), Shangri La (272), Renaissance (259), Ramada Extension (256), Digital Sports (250), La Cigale (240), Millennium (225), Merweb Corniche (204), Marriott Courtyard (200), Le Mirage (186), Al Sharq Village Resort & Spa (160), Golf Course (150) and Sports City (120).

QNB said these facilities would be totally ready by 2008.

*edit the Ultimate Development project/towers thread* :D