Cotai’s City of Dreams Hotel Tower is new design by Zaha Hadid Architects and the development of this new, skeleton-exposed, iconic feature commenced in 2013. Melcro Crown Entertainment – a developer and owner of casino gaming and entertainment resort facilities in Asia has recently unveiled the project details for their fifth hotel tower at City of Dreams, the company’s flagship property in Cotai, Macau.

The tower houses approximately 780 guestrooms, suites and sky villas, over 40 floors. The hotel includes a variety of meeting and event facilities, gaming rooms, restaurants, spa center and sky pool. All the programs are wrapped in single, cohesive envelope and due to integrating extensive back of house areas and supporting ancillary facilities, it is possible to have them all working perfectly under the same roof.

The design of the tower combines dramatic public spaces and generous guest rooms with innovative engineering and formal cohesion. The rectangular outline of the site is extruded as a monolithic block with a series of voids which carve through the center of the tower, merging traditional architectural elements of roof, wall and ceiling, in order to create a sculptural form that defines many of the hotel’s internal public spaces.

The tower’s exposed exoskeleton reinforces the dynamism of the design. Expressive and powerful, this external structure optimizes the interior layouts and envelops the building, further defining its formal composition and establishing relationships with the new Cotai strip.

The project is expected to open in early 2017.