Lusail

Lusail ( also referred to as the Lusail City; Arab لوسيل, Lusail DMG ) is an urbanization project along the east coast just north of Doha city, the capital of Qatar.

History and Planning

The planned city is built on a hitherto hardly built around 35 square kilometers of desert area starting at the West Bay Complex Canal in the north- east of Doha. The area extends seven kilometers north along the coast and extends to five kilometers inland. On this site once to 200,000 people, 170,000 more people are working, and finally 80,000 visitors and tourists will be accommodated. The resulting urban complex exceeds 450,000 people with the current population of Doha. After completion of the water works, the remaining land area of the project, however, will be shrunk to 21 square kilometers.

To this end, since 2007 already extensive land movements have been made. The new lagoon city will consist of large blocks of land and water areas, inner connecting channels and some medium-sized islands. Again, great importance is the planners again, similar to the south already realized man-made island The Pearl, put on as many properties as possible with immediate or near coastal or shore connection.

In contrast to the specially Vorküstensockel in about two to four kilometers south been washed archipelago The Pearl Lusail City is but " carved out " from the naturally grown coastline. The new water areas are starting inwards (west) herausgebaggert of the coast from the desert land, so that the upstream left standing and partially elevated with the excavation areas and new islands are located on naturally grown underground, is what increases their stability and water line resistance and cost-effective.

The project is being developed by the state-controlled Developer " Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company" and marketed in several phases. Your concept assumes that such an artificial city is only in demand, if it succeeds, the main urban functions accommodate balanced and mixed as required. The planners intend to bring there great (even state ) and smaller -managing companies and commercial establishments and retail, visitor -attracting leisure facilities, a theater, sports facilities and recreational areas, educational institutions, recreational ports and a waterfront luxury hotels in a lively urban context. After award of the Football World Cup 2022 in Qatar the largest stadium to be built in Lusail. Addition, there are about 22 hotels that are available until 2022. Rounding out this central facilities by an external ring of residential areas on low mainly cultivated, planted loosened areas with homes and apartment buildings, as well as a neighborhood-related social infrastructure and attractive recreational areas.

The city will get a total of 350 medium-high skyscrapers, of which four are very high skyscraper ( 70 to 80 floors) überkrönen the waterfront waterfront in central location.

Districts and function mappings

The entire system is divided into ten functionally oriented districts:

  • Marina, the harbor bays domestic lying on the Grand Canal,
  • Entertainment City, a 100 acre island area with Veranstaltungsbauten of all kinds,
  • Corporate Office Park, a flat -built complex for corporate offices,
  • Fox Hills will take up the principal conference center,
  • Waterfront as the landmark skyscraper of continental location to the coast side provided
  • Boulevard takes the central purchasing function with a shopping center,
  • Palm Allees be mentioned are the external high-level residential quarters,
  • Golf, the golf course with surrounding upscale villa developments and golf resorts,
  • Iceland resorts are luxurious tourist hotels on some offshore islands,
  • Corniche, the islands with a marina are connected by bridges developed as a seafront promenade, lined.

Sustainability concept

For this purpose, the announcements were rather vague, concrete commitments to environmental data, the energy balance, etc. are not yet known. Recognizable is the will to carry out the new city according to advanced standards. So, for example, should the buildings different sustainability categories are assigned, with the highest categories should be promoted as a priority.

Transport concept

Lusail will be accessible by rail, by road and water. Road links follows the customary generous fast roads, the surface distribution is done well with broad boulevards. Stationary traffic in the center is referred to 4 nodes in underground parking areas with a total of 7,000 parking spaces. Lusail will benefit from his water -surrounding situation: water taxis for loads and people could handle a significant portion of the traffic. In the course of the generous rail concept for Doha Lusail will get a fair share of S-Bahn and U -Bahn connections. The plans are based on 20-30 respective stations, so that the lines will extend into the inner regions.

Progress

Mid-2013, the project was already well underway: the immense landscape design works and hydraulic structures were almost completed, especially the water-related areas and islands of the future City Entertainment; However, some of the future lagoon areas are still cut off ungeflutet in order to handle the internal discovery or construction-site better. First, the construction project south to Marina was opened on 1 June 2011.

According to the latest plans to the infrastructure, with the exception of public rail transport services, be substantially completed by 2015, so that private investors and national developers have plenty of time to build up to the big event 2022 FIFA World Cup already many of the buildings. The final conclusion of this very ambitious large-scale project is expected to last until then in the 2030s.

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