Valerio Maria Ferrari

Our brief was to unify a range of separate functions within one single building: a five star hotel, a major bank, a selection of shops and various business offices. Our solution was to design two towers, one considerably taller than the other, connected by a flying bridge. The bridge finishes off the commercial bank building like a massive picture frame, to become the lobby area of the luxury hotel in the second tower that continues upwards to a height of 180m.on the first four floors, a red serpentine houses the restaurants and the 1,500sqm banquet hall.