Brad Pitt To Design Green Dubai Hotel

by Laura Malesich (RSS feed)
Jun 4th 2008 at 8:02PM

Brad (and his ever growing resume) has embraced a new project not on film, but with a hard hat in Dubai. He will be collaborating with an architectural firm there, Zabeel Properties, as well as the firm he currently consults with, LA-based GRAFT, to design a new hotel that will be built sustainably. Zabeel Properties is known for also being socially-responsible with its projects, considering the community's needs as well as its inhabitants seeing the development beyond the walls and through a larger lens. Lending his enthusiasm and expertise, after his experience with Make It Right which is still building homes in the 9th Ward of New Orleans, Brad certainly also creates added interest in any project he throws himself into. The primary fixture of this development project will be an 800-room five-star hotel with American themes and an environmentally-friendly structure. Once again, Dubai is on the cusp of both luxurious and current interests, going green with glamour.

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Arch Student Jun 4th 2008 9:04PM

No building in Dubai is socially-responsible. The workforce is imported from all over asia with pay and working conditions resembling slave labor.

Alex Baran Jun 5th 2008 5:48AM

brad pitt is sooo super-hot! he's getting even more handsome as he gets older (or I should say "mature"). i didn't know but he has been a smoker - I read here (http://www.projectweightloss.com) he quit when filming Troy... he had gorgeous abs in that movie!!

artifex Jun 5th 2008 1:42PM

He's narrated a PBS series on the subject, too: http://www.pbs.org/e2/design.html

Laura Malesich Jun 5th 2008 3:35PM

Very cool! I had no idea he was involved with that project as well. Thanks for letting us know! He's passionate about green architecture and has a nice voice -- not a bad combination!

chris Jul 6th 2008 8:04PM

This is completely screwed up. Bard Pitt and his hideous wife go on and on and on about poverty and human rights. Who's going to build this hotel in Dubai? Poor workers from thrid world countries who have no rights at all when they are working in the Emirates, that's who. Shame on you, Brad Pitt. Down with the celebrity activist. What a pot of hypocrisy.