Will it ever get built ?! :nuts:

Dorobanti Tower, Render © Zaha Hadid Architects
2008-2013

PROGRAM:
5 Star Hotel & Apartments

CLIENT:
Smartown Investments

SIZE/HEIGHT:
200m

CONCEPT:
IntroductionThe Dorobanti Tower was designed to establish an iconic presence in the heart of Bucharest. The new tower is a unique mix of a distinctive form, ingenious structure, and spatial qualities of sky-high living. The purity of its form - a chamfered diamond like structure - will be a timeless, elegant landmark in the centre of Bucharest. Zaha Hadid Architect’s design concept is a synthesis of architecture and engineering, which integrates a dis-tinct meandering structural mesh frame and naturally expresses the changing programme of hotel, amenities, and residential apartments.The site is located in the centre of Bucharest, to the west of Piaza Romana, and approximately 6km south of the international airport. The brief called for a 100,000 square metre mixed-use development at the junction of Calea Dorobanti and St. Mihail Eminescu. The project comprises 34,000 square metres of a 5-star hotel (including restaurants and a convention centre) and 35,000 square metres of luxury apartments. Additionally, the scheme offers lower level retail areas of 4,600 square metres and it delivers a generous allocation of public realm. This public area will be unlike anything else in Bucharest, representing a major attraction within the dense urban character of the City, offering an important new meeting space and urban plaza.


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http://zahahadid.vm.bytemark.co.uk/offices-and-towers/2008/07/04/dorobanti-tower

When did this one come out??? :)

Where exactly is this junction? (Calea Dorobanti and St. Mihail Eminescu)

What famous building is located next to this junction?

What famous building is located next to this junction?

^^ Howard Johnson Hotel
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http://wikimapia.org/#lat=44.446963&lon=26.0997391&z=17&l=0&m=a&v=2
^^ few years old :bash:

Thanks, the tower looks great, I love Zaha Hadid's creations :cheers:

^^ :cheers: Will see if ever gets built :lol:

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Sorry; should've been posted on Proposed Highrises :nuts:

It looks good.The facade reminds me of OMA's proposal for a tower in Paris.

Great looking building ,I hope it gets built.

Nice
Very Good!!

I'm wondering if that area infrastructure (roads) can support this tower.
I think it's crowded already.

This will be the most beautiful tower in Balkans if it's build. :)

Fabulous design! I hope it will get built. Go Bucharest! :okay:

Very nice design :cheers: They should built it :yes:

Bling Bling:ohno:

Very original facade! :cheers:

I feel embarassed to say this but I've never heard of Zaha Hadid Architects but I won't forget now.
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like it very much

oh my god :ohno:

Cladding looks pretty good, but I would choose for a single pattern over the entire facade. :)

^^ The lower part of the tower looks a hell lot better than the top one and it makes the building look more sleek:)

oh my god :ohno:

What?

Beautiful tower. Seems me a little Foster's 30 Street Mary Axe in London.

Hate it, Sorry..........

Not sure this tower fits the city..

Hate it, Sorry..........

... ve live in a free world :nuts: :)

Beautiful tower. Seems me a little Foster's 30 Street Mary Axe in London.
Not even close... :ohno:

I hope this building will become reality. Bucharest deserve it!

this tower will bring new light to Bucharest :)

Such a sexy building! :cheers2:

Any idea how of many floors?

After somme NIMBY actions and the crisis, seem like this tower is canceled...

Smartown Investmenst consider even to move the project into another country.

http://www.romanialibera.ro/a144854/smartown-vom-muta-blocul-diamant-in-alta-tara-din-est.html

Too good it has been canceled, you can't built a building 100 meter bigger then any other in the city exactly in the center! And where do you put it, there has been no positive comments from the citizens for it anywhere! So my opinion that we saved ourself is not only mine but most of the peoples! It would have been a disgrace for something like this to be built over there, even though I think the design is so low class, I really wouldn't have minded if they would have built it away from the center in a position similar to la Defense in Paris.

a fantastic tower!!!

Dorobanti Tower

http://www.azenirodam.hu/20090818/felhokarcolo_epul_romaniaban_pontosan_bukarest_belvarosaban_a_dorobanti_tower_zaha_hadid_tervezese

this Hungarian article said, construction starts soon,

50 floors, 200m

completion date : 2013

5 stars hotel
shopping mall
casinos
35000 sqm apartments and offices

total leasable area : 100.000 sqm

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this tower is not going to be build, didn t got the approval and will never do. people, mass media, local authority and architects are against it.

the article is older i guess, otherwise cannot trust in it, no sources, no nothing.