Address Downtown is the first and flagship hotel of Emaar's Address Hotels & Resorts chain, and was planned as one of the landmarks of Downtown Dubai alongside Burj Khalifa and Dubai Mall under the working name of Burj Lake Hotel. The hotel was located next to the southeastern corner of Dubai Mall and adjacent to Burj Khalifa Lake, thus offering a front-row seat to views of Burj Khalifa and The Dubai Fountain. It had 220 transient hotel rooms and suites on the lower floors alongside 626 serviced apartments sold to the public on the middle and higher floors, thus being the front-runner in Emaar's model of offsetting hotel development costs by sale of residences and serviced apartments within. The hotel building suffered a fire on the last day of 2015 due to an electrical short circuit which damaged much of its facade; it was subsequently closed for renovation, which involved a complete redesign of accommodation and common spaces, and re-opened two years later.
The hotel building had 64 above-ground floors (66 if mezzanines are counted) and no basements. It used the American floor numbering system, meaning that the ground floor had been numbered as the 1st. The first four floors formed a large podium which contained parking as well as several lakeside retail units on the lowest level. The main entrance and lobby was on the 5th floor or the podium roof; this was accessed by an access ramp from the street or an elevated walkway from the ground floor of Dubai Mall. While apparently there used to be separate lobbies for the transient hotel and apartment sections prior to the renovation, they had now been unified into a single, open space with high ceilings, which provided access to the lobby lounge, a Mediterranean restaurant called GAL, a retail arcade, and even a supermarket for the building's long-term guests. This lobby opened into an expansive terrace spanning the podium roof, which featured a garden alongside outdoor seatings for the lobby lounge and the GAL restaurant, as well as a large infinity-edge pool with views of Burj Khalifa and Downtown Dubai. The 6th floor housed the hotel's main all-day restaurant, simply called The Restaurant, alongside the function rooms, cigar lounge, and the spa and gym; the latter three had been moved down from floors 13 and 14 during the 2016-18 renovation, occupying a space formerly used as a ballroom and several other dining concepts. Floors 7 to 13, as well as part of floor 14, were occupied by transient hotel rooms; the renovation saw the former spa space on floors 13-14 had been converted into additional rooms and suites, including the duplex Royal Suite, increasing the key count to 220 from the previous 196. An executive floor lounge, available to suite and club-room guests, was also on the 7th floor. The remaining portion of floor 14 had mechanical rooms and resident storage, while apartments were located on floors 15-47 and 49-60. The 62nd and 63rd floors had a space for a sky lounge, which used to be called NEOS at the time of visit (but since changed to a dinner-show concept called Birds Dubai); this could not be reached by a single elevator, but instead required changing the elevator from floor 61. Floors 6 mezzanine, 48, 61 sublevel (between floors 60 and 61), and 64 were mechanical.
The building had elevators installed by Mitsubishi. This video features the set of six elevators within its central core, which provided access to the serviced apartments occupying the bulk of the building. These were among the very last breeds of the GPM-III model, and came with rectangular metallic buttons, which themselves were a twist on the small rectangular buttons for high-rise installations. Prior to the renovation, these used to serve the 13th floor instead of the 6th, as that was the original location of the spa and fitness center. The buttons also used to have been laid out in a serpentine fashion, though they had been arranged to a "normal" pattern following the renovation. The cabs featured velvet walls and marble flooring, which overall resulted in a brighter atmosphere compared to the pre-renovation wooden interiors. Some time in 2021-22, a hybrid destination dispatch system had been implemented where DOAS panels were introduced on the 5th and 6th floors only. During the opening hours of the sky lounge, one car would be taken out of the group to exclusively serve floors 4 and 61, which was the transfer level to another elevator to floor 63; access to floor 61 was otherwise disabled. While they ran very smoothly, their speed was on the slow side for the number of floors.
Manufacturer: ETA-MELCO Elevator Co. L.L.C.
Model name: GPM-3H
Year of commission: 2008
Loading: 1,350kg (2,980lbs)
Capacity: 18 persons
Full speed: 5m/s (1,000FPM)
Serviced floors: P1, P2, P3, P4, *L, 6, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61
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