Tom Wright of WKK Architects.
The Burj Al Arab Hotel (Tower of the Arabs) was designed by Tom Wright in October 1993 and completed in November 1999, in time for the millennium. Ref: wkkarchitects.com/#/burj-al-arab/

'The world's only 7 star Hotel' since 1999. At 321 m (1,053 ft), it is the fourth tallest hotel in the world. Burj Al Arab stands on an artificial island 280 m (920 ft) from Jumeirah beach. Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Al_Arab

Carlos Ott Forgets to Sign:
"My most horrible experience as an architect. I was once asked to make a conceptual design for an iconic hotel on Dubai’s coast. I locked myself in my hotel for two weeks. I came up with a proposal for the Burj Al Arab… identical to the building that stands today.

I had done the sketches in pencil. Quick drawings without my name on them. I submitted them to a satisfied client. We would see each other in a month’s time. One month later I learned my contact had been fired and the project halted. Three years later, I saw the building being built.

It was my fault. I had not included my name on the drawings. Sketches with Prisma colors on blue Canson paper. Since they didn’t know whose drawings they were, someone else was asked to build it, and they did. My fault.

My building was identical to Burj Al Arab, but a bit taller. Main concepts – building in the water, a sail motif, a restaurant with an aquarium – were my ideas. You can see on my website a building I did at the same time. The two share the same concept.

It was the first idea for a building in the water. You can see Dubai’s future development took this idea further.

The experience spoiled my relationship with myself, not with Dubai. I was a typical idiotic architect. I could not blame anybody but myself. When I drive by and look at the building, I say, ‘Oh, what an idiot I was.’

It looks a bit like a roach from the back. The building that we did in Montevideo is much cleaner and taller. And those diagonal elements on the façade were not my idea. But anyway…"

Ref: almanakh.org/?p=1056

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay

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Denmark

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Arena Das Dunas, Natal, Brazil.

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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