Results of the Competition [DUBAI] Architecture School Tower

International ideas competition for young architects and architecture students for the design of the new venue for the Global Energy Forum.

Dubai is the sixth richest country in the world thanks to the boom that followed the discovery of oil deposits in its territory during the mid-sixties. However, Dubai is the emirate with the least amount of oil reserves in the Persian Gulf area, therefor its prosperity was born with an expiration date, something that the royal family and the government have been well aware of since the first moment

In April of 2013 Dubai organized the first Global Energy Forum, with the objective of attracting the top representatives of the world’s energy enterprises, as well as scientists and professors to generate a debate platform from which new proposals for the global energetic future could emerge. This will help the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy to fulfill its goal of becoming a 100% ecological city by 2030.

After the success of the first Global Energy Forum, Dubai has decided to turn this into an annual event and wants to give it a fixed venue to accommodate it in its upcoming editions. Dubai has already begun its transformation process but it knows how important it is for its global image not just to become a sustainable city but for the rest of the world to become aware of it too.

For this reason, the new venue for the Global Energy Forum should not only be a practical building that facilitates the development of the event activities, but also represent the change that the Supreme Council of Energy is seeking and should help to spread its message and vision throughout the world.