NEVER BUILT: HYDROPOLIS (220-room underwater resort)

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PROJECT NAME: Hydropolis Hotel (Underwater)
LOCATION: Jebel Ali, Dubai, UAE
LANDSIDE APPROX: 30.000 ms (Gross Floor Area)
HOTEL APPROX: 75.000 ms (Gross Floor Area)
DEPTH: 20 meters belowsurface
COST: US$ 550 M
NUMBER OF SUITES: 220
OTHER DETAILS
START OF DESIGN: 2003 April
START OF CONSTRUCTION: 2004 September
END OF CONSTRUCTION: 2006 July
OPERATING FROM: 2006 December
KEY FACT: World's first under water hotel!

The design includes three linked elements: a wave-shaped 333,333-sq.-ft. (30,000-sq.-m) above-ground "land station" and the jellyfish-shaped 833,333-sq.-ft. (75,000-sq.-m.) underwater hotel, linked by a submerged transparent train tunnel that's 1,700 feet (515 meters) long.

Among the project's other unusual architectural details are the hotel's two translucent domes, which will house a concert auditorium and a ballroom that break the water's surface, with the ballroom featuring a retractable roof. And that's not to mention the hotel's







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The Hydropolis Hotel, as this artist's rendering illustrates, will include two domes that break the water's surface, with the ballroom dome featuring a retractable roof. Rendering: Hydropolis Holding