Grand Millennium Hotel

Bay Views Hotel is a 20-story, five-star hotel situated on the canal embankment of Business Bay. Designed in contemporary style, its plan form affords every room a view of the waterways and Burj Khalifa. The hotel consists of 233 standard guestrooms and 18 suites, in addition to four food and beverage outlets occupying the podium above two levels of basement car parking.

The design and planning of the hotel was a complex process due to a contradictory set of design guidelines issued to developers of plots in Business Bay. The guidelines stipulated that an arcade should be provided on the street and waterfront to connect each plot in a continuous pedestrian route to create a promenade along the waterfront. However, it also placed restrictions on what functions could be located at ground level and within the podium. This would have resulted in a lifeless, uninviting, and disconnected ‘promenade’ when coupled with the statutory elements required to be at ground level – including, among others, transformer rooms and waste collection rooms – and the space required for vehicular access.