Park Hyatt Saadiyat Island Hotel and Resort in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

August 22, 2010 Category: Commercial Building, Hotel

Park Hyatt Saadiyat Island Hotel and Resort, designed by Perkins Eastman, located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, has broken ground signalling the birth of a new luxury hotel destination in the Middle East. The man-made Saadiyat Island – or island of happiness – is situated just off the coast of Abu Dhabi and will soon be home to architecture from five Pritzker Prize winning architects. Park Hyatt will be the first hotel on the island, designed as a playground for the ‘discerning traveller’.

The New York office of Perkins Eastman designed the 45,000 sq m resort for Abu Dhabi National Hotels (ADNH). Situated on the shore, the bulk of the 314 guestrooms and suites are collated in the main hotel building, facing the two pools which separate the hotel from the private beach. A main dining room, specialty restaurant and bar, a beach restaurant, spa and meeting/banqueting facilities are all within the confines of the resort.

Materials used to create a feel of luxury appropriate to the Arabian sea include local stone, ceramics, and craftwork surrounded by lush indigenous landscape materials. All materials are sensitive to the environment with as many local materials used as possible, and many products made of recycled materials including the paving, tiles, and furniture, among others.

Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster and Tadao Ando are contributing to the island’s cultural district with a range of individual and inspirational centres under various stages of construction. Construction on the Park Hyatt is expected to complete within 18 months, welcoming its first guests by the end of the first quarter of 2011.

Park Hyatt Saadiyat Island Hotel and Resort Design by Perkins Eastman