UNESCO’s World Architecture & Design Award
the Prix Versailles — Morphis
An exterior precedent showing mega-scale hospitality towers integrated with a monumental figure-eight architectural motif across a landscape foreground.
- What we like about this project
- The central double-ring figure-eight void piercing the mid-rise connecting volume.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- twin-towers
- figure-eight-facade
- faceted-glass
- resort-architecture
Style tags
- contemporary
- monumental
- entertainment-architecture
Visual tags
- mega-scale
- entertainment-complex
- high-rise
- iconic-form
- reflective-facade
- Geometry
- Symmetrical twin cylindrical high-rise towers flanking a central connecting podium structure featuring a distinctive figure-eight structural void.
- Facade system
- Faceted unitized glass and metallic curtain wall system.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete composite mega-structure with outrigger bracing.
- Spatial scale
- Massive mega-scale resort development featuring towering high-rises dominating the horizon.
- Lighting
- Bright, direct daylight casting clean vertical shadows down the faceted glass and metal tower surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Grand and cinematic under bright daylight.
- Environmental context
- Open landscape foreground featuring a reflective water channel and low green banks, set against a clear blue sky backdrop.
- Spatial experience
- The towers command a powerful monumental presence across the open landscape and water body, establishing strong visual focal points.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical rhythm emphasized by faceted structural piers and alternating glass panels.
- Style reading
- Contemporary cinematic mega-resort architecture
- Program
- Entertainment resort and hotel complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- twin-towers, figure-eight-facade, faceted-glass, resort-architecture
- Style tags
- contemporary, monumental, entertainment-architecture
- Visual tags
- mega-scale, entertainment-complex, high-rise, iconic-form, reflective-facade
- Geometry
- Symmetrical twin cylindrical high-rise towers flanking a central connecting podium structure featuring a distinctive figure-eight structural void.
- Facade system
- Faceted unitized glass and metallic curtain wall system.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete composite mega-structure with outrigger bracing.
- Spatial scale
- Massive mega-scale resort development featuring towering high-rises dominating the horizon.
- Lighting
- Bright, direct daylight casting clean vertical shadows down the faceted glass and metal tower surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Grand and cinematic under bright daylight.
- Environmental context
- Open landscape foreground featuring a reflective water channel and low green banks, set against a clear blue sky backdrop.
- Spatial experience
- The towers command a powerful monumental presence across the open landscape and water body, establishing strong visual focal points.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical rhythm emphasized by faceted structural piers and alternating glass panels.
- Style reading
- Contemporary cinematic mega-resort architecture
- Program
- Entertainment resort and hotel complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture