A US$210m (Dhs1.8 billion Dubai Conference Centre) has just been announced that will include hotels, restaurants and shops when completed.
The centre will be built on a 55,000sqm site in Al Jaddaf facing Festival City, director general of Dubai Municipality Hussain Nasser Lootah said the project will be characterised by having “a magical location with a distinctive panoramic view of Dubai Creek, considered a perfect destination for business people and tourists”.
OBE Architects were chosen to design the Dubai Convention Centre and the centre will be near the just-opened Versace Hotel, as well as the upcoming Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Library.
The Dubai Conference Centre will feature two hotels – a 33-floor three-star hotel and a 48 floor four-star hotel – as well as a 36-floor office building.
Connecting the conference halls and the hotels will be The Concourse, a covered, air-conditioned glass corridor designed like a boulevard, with shops and restaurants spread over The Concourse’s 150-metre stretch.
The Dubai Conference centre will consist of a three-level, 10,000-capacity Sheikh Rashid Hall conference venue with 30 metre-high ceilings.
There will also be five smaller sub-halls, accommodating up to 1,000 people.
Lootah from Dubai Municipality has noted how important the Dubai Conference Centre is for Dubai, saying that it will “directly contribute to improving the status of Dubai as the best city to live in at a global level”.
Lootah went on to reiterate how much attention Dubai Municipality has paid to the establishment of tourism and service projects, which include the advancement of infrastructure, utilities and projects in order to further better Dubai’s tourism sector in the run up to World Expo 2020.
