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PROJECT / MEYDAN JUMEIRAH HOTEL AND RACECOURSE, DUBAI
Pic: Meydan/Momentary Awe Photography
‘Meydan’ translated from Arabic means ‘meeting place’ and, indeed, Meydan City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is a new crossroads of the world. The brainchild of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai, the new city district will comprise four distinct sub-com- ponents: Meydan Racecourse, that hosts the high-stakes Dubai World Cup; Meydan Me- tropolis, a series of state-of the-art business parks; Meydan Horizons, where business towers will intermingle with luxury water- front developments; and Meydan Godolphin Parks, a shopping destination graced with a signature architectural tower created in the image of a thoroughbred. Sheikh Moham- med supported the launch of the project and helped construct the development in an astonishingly short schedule of less than three years.
“Meydan is founded on the guiding prin- ciples of partnership, community, and sport- ing excellence,” says chairman of the board and CEO of Meydan, Saeed Humaid Al Tayer. “We have conceptualised and planned for an interconnected cityscape of four distinct districts where the worlds of business, sport, and cosmopolitan living merge and compliment each other.”
The first of the venues in the district to debut last March is the Meydan Jumeirah Hotel and Racecourse, a 285-room, five-star hospitality property directly overlooking the world’s most exclusive horse racing facility, which features to date the largest and longest trackside LED panel. The luxury
hotel itself has nearly eight kilometres of interior LEDS, plus a multitude of dramatic lighting effects. Designed by TAK Architects, and its principal architect Teo A. Khing, of Malaysia and Dubai, enhanced by evocative lighting by CD+M Lighting Group of Atlanta and Dubai, the high-end hospitality property is an illuminated jewel in the desert. “The project is very multi-layered, with expressive interior, exterior, landscape, and horse racing facility lighting,” says principal lighting designer Ted Ferreira. “At night, we wanted the hotel and racecourse grand- stand to appear as a jewel box dramatically seen from the visitors’ approach.” Inside the hotel, the first spectacular space to greet patrons is the 30-metre-tall atrium lobby, with guest room floors overlooking the arrival space. “It was a challenge to light such a tall, vertical, architectural cav- ity so it didn’t visually appear as a cave-like space,” says CD+M lighting designer Hilary Wainer. The eleven guest room corridors overlooking the lobby are lit with LED strip lights. For the lobby itself, the challenge was the “less than an inch” space the light- ing team was given by the architects to illu- minate the architectural shell. The solution was to use OSRAM tape lights within the tight cove that create a zig-zag pattern. “We specified nearly five miles of LED tape lights within the public interior spaces,” Wainer says. “The key was to choose LEDs with very tight binning (the manufacturer’s product output coded to LED colour match- ing) so that all the lighting achieved a 3000K warm light.” Similarly, additional
Pic: Meydan/Momentary Awe Photography
Pic: Meydan/Momentary Awe Photography
Main pic opposite A combination of uplight, downlight, cove light and lighting the vertical planes help overcome the classic atrium challenge of avoiding a cavernous effect at night
Top Onyx panels surround each entry into the Atrium Lobby evenly backlit by strands of Tokistar TokiLume White LEDs.
Above Aldabra warm white LED Matrix Micro striplights softly backlight the entrance of Farriers, the International All Day Dining Restaurant. Linear LED lighting behind the ceiling, bar die and underneath the toe kick provide subtle lighting effects at Shiba, the Japanese restaurant
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