Designed by New York

The Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi is big by modern luxury hotel standards, boasting 500 rooms, state-of-the-art spa and gym, conference and event facilities, and world-class dining in one of its seven restaurants. Designed by New York architecture firm Asymptote Architecture, with a team lead by designers Lisa Ann Coutoure and Hani Rashid that reads more like a role of lengthy film credits than a project team, it is a hotel of innovative futuristic design and palatial proportions. , its timing coinciding with the Abu Dhabi Formula 1 motorsport Grand Prix event to ensure it received maximum exposure from the sporting events worldwide audience. And, it didn’t disappoint – just take a look at these amazing pictures.