Qatar's ultra-luxurious Raffles Doha hotel looks like a Stargate to a new galaxy

Asia One ^ | NOVEMBER 23, 2022 | Si Jia

[nickcarraway]

[Sicon]

Remember when all the innovative and advanced architecture was being built in the U.S.?

Yeah, it was a long time ago.

[A Navy Vet]

That’s just damn ugly.

[DJ MacWoW]

Absolutely agree. Yuck!

[ameribbean expat]

“The 132-key property offers 270 rooms, 92 suites, four themed suites, and one presidential suite”.

So is half the fun figuring out who else has a key to your room?

[MrRelevant]

92 suites , multiple rooms per suite= 270 rooms I think

[Carriage Hill]

I remember. Airports and roads, too.

[Doulos1]

Two garden snails copulating?

[cgbg]

US architecture has become a suicide cult:

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/heatherwick-vessel-saved

[SamAdams76]

The hotel will welcome guest room reservations starting Dec 19 with the lowest price set at a whopping US$2,355 (S$3,235) per night for one person.

I suppose I could spend a couple of years there if I wanted to blow my retirement money all at once. By the end of the stay, I might be so sick of luxury that I'd happily spend the rest of my days in poverty. Then again...does the woman pictured come with the room?

[SuperLuminal]

All it needs is crosshairs...

[cgbg]

At $2,300 a night you should at least call the snails escargots.

;-)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“The 132-key property offers 270 rooms, 92 suites, four themed suites, and one presidential suite”.

What? No HoloSuites?

[irishjuggler]

If the land of Mordor had a hotel...

[TangoLimaSierra]

Then again...does the woman pictured come with the room?

Yes, but, just as pictured. She has no legs or left arm.

[Pigsley]

Slaves did construction work on the fab hotels and super tall apartment. Angry slaves. That concrete has to be mixed the right way.....

[Salohcin]

What nonsense. The architectural design has nothing to do with Stargate, which was a full circle. Anyone familiar without Islamic iconography can clearly see that the design is a stylistic rendering of crossed scimitars, which is a common Islamic motif.

[rxh4n1]

That concrete has to be mixed the right way.....

How many slaves fell into the glopitta-glopitta machine?

[LibWhacker]

Must be irksome knowing that if it weren’t for western brains and knowhow your country would have nothing more spectacular than one-story tents to impress the camel herders.

[Palio di Siena]

I know…right.
And how many gays got thrown off the top of it?