Hospitality Architecture: We Interview the Helix Hotel’s Architect on Our Show
It’s one of the the most innovative designs the world has ever seen. It’s the Helix Hotel, soon to be built in the Persian Gulf. It looks like a stack of irregularly shaped dinner plates; in reality it contains 208 rooms, an atrium and a waterfall.
The design was chosen from amongst many in a fierce competition. The winner was Thomas Leeser, an innovative architect who works from Germany and the United States. What motivated him to conceive of this unusual design? Why are there no windows visible on the outside? And what’s going on on the inside?
These are just some of the questions that I will be asking him when I interview him on our proprietary radio show, Engineering and Architecture Radio. The episode will be held on Friday, 17 April 2009 and promises to be an audio treat. Catch it here.
The episode will also be archived at the same URL, so that if you are not available to hear it live you can always listen to it later, and even download it into your desktop if you like.
Don’t miss the episode…sightseeing inside Thomas Leeser’s mind will be a rare experience!
