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Helix Hotel, 5 Star Hotel to Rise in Abu Dhabi

New York design firm Leeser Architecture have won a competition to design a hotel in the Zayed Bay district of Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Called the Helix for its spiraling floors, the hotel is located in the bay and sits partially over the water.
The building includes a glass-bottomed swimming pool on the roof, visible eight floors below, and a running track on the fifth floor.

It will be part of a new waterfront development in Abu Dhabi, adjacent to the Sheik Zayed Bridge by Zaha Hadid Architects that is currently under construction.

Luxury Hotel Paris

A luxury hotel in Paris

For a successful stay, a reservation at the Hotel de Banville, a luxury hotel in Paris, will give entire satisfaction with its warm and personal welcome in surroundings which are sumptuously and tastefully decorated. Its 38 rooms, 11 superior rooms and 2 suites make this luxury hotel in Paris one of the most beautiful in the capital.

A luxury hotel in the centre of Paris

The Hotel de Banville is a luxury hotel in Paris which is ideally situated near the Champs Elysees and, thanks to the public transport connections, within easy reach of the Louvre and Notre Dame. In this luxury hotel in Paris you will have close at hand the most beautiful boutiques of the capital, the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe.

Jumeirah opens its first hotel in China

Jumeirah Group, the Dubai-based luxury hotel company, announces the soft opening of its first five-star luxury hotel in China at the Himalayas Centre in Pudong, Shanghai.
Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel Shanghai features 401 contemporary Chinese-style guestrooms, including 62 suites and residences, four restaurants and lounges, a 24-hour fitness centre and indoor swimming pool.
The hotel also offers extensive meeting, conference and event facilities, including two grand ballrooms and a 5,000m2 rooftop Infinity Garden.

W Hotels Unveils Plans for the Namaste Tower

W Hotel  has just announced plans for the Namaste Tower, a new W Hotel in Mumbai that is due to open July 2015.
To follow the long tradition of great Indian architecture, the striking 984-foot-tall building will house 62 floors combined into a hotel, office, and retail space.
The design of the tower is actually meant to reflect the namaste yoga gesture where two wings of the hotel are clasped together like hands greeting the city of Mumbai.

Hotel Missoni Opens in Kuwait

Luxury hotelier Ian Schrager has launched a new hotel chain in Chicago, promising a “revitalization of the hotel industry.”
Ian Schrager, credited by some as the creator of the boutique hotel with the launch of Morgans Hotel New York in 1984, is already working on his new brand ‘Edition’ with Marriott but launched ‘Public’ May 23.
As the name suggests, Public is designed to be inclusive, rather than exclusive, with the new company saying that it combines elements of luxury and boutique properties with the best of the “limited service” model.

 This hotel offers luxurious rooms & suites with panoramic sea views. It features a jacuzzi, fitness center and an outdoor pool. It provides limousine airport shuttle service. Souq Salmiya is 3 km away. Hotel Missoni Kuwait’s rooms feature an interior décor by professional designers. Each air-conditioned room has a Bang & Olufsen satellite TV, a tea & espresso coffee maker and deluxe bathroom amenities in the en suite bathroom. Hotel Missoni serves Italian delicacies and Arabic dishes in the 3 different on-site restaurants. Guest can also order a wholesome à la carte breakfast or dinner to their rooms. The hotel features an on-site spa operated by Six Senses providing a variety of beauty treatments. Other hotel services include dry cleaning, guest laundry and hair dresser. Hotel Missoni Kuwait is less than 5 minutes’ drive away from the beachside cafés and restaurants in Salmiya.

Shanghai’s new luxury hotels

2010 has seen a flurry of new hotels opening inShanghai ahead of the start of the World Expo, which runs for six months from May 1.
Marriott, Peninsula, InterContinental and Fairmont are amongst the brands joining Shanghai’s luxury market.
has opened the new Shanghai Expo hotel as the city completes its final preparations for Expo 2010 which begins on May 1.
It opened April 19 as the only luxury hotel on the Shanghai Expo site, offering 400 rooms with views of the pavilions, the Huangpu river and Shanghai skyline.

 Built on the site of an old liquor factory, the 28-storey structure includes five restaurants, a spa, gym and pool and impressive riverfront gardens complete with jogging tracks.

 Inside, the hotel boasts a two-floor executive lounge on the top floors, as well as 42 suites, four Diplomatic suites with private balconies and a classic Presidential suite occupying half of Level 28.

 InterContinental has also converted several 1930s villas on the site, once used by employees of the factories, into a pub and several freestanding luxury residences with private gardens

 Expo Village, a 540,000 square meter area that adjoins the main site, holds 10,000 people alone and is expected to host expo delegations and some public guests.

 There are around half a million hotel beds in Shanghai for visitors to the Expo, city officials have said.

 Now owned by international chain Fairmont, the 269-room hotel closed in 2007 at the start of a three-year program to restore the building to its 1930s grandeur.

 The Shanghai Peace hotel, a world famous building on the banks of the Shanghai Bund, has also confirmed that it will be open for “private viewing” from April 28 before an official opening later in Spring.

 Organizers are now running dress rehearsals and simulations to put the final touches to a show expected to welcome over 70 million visitors during its six-month run.