Brad Pitt To Consult on 800-Room Dubai Hotel
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Brad Pitt, the star of “Fight Club” and “Ocean’s 11” who professes a passion for architecture, will be a design consultant for an 800-room hotel and resort Zabeel Properties plans to build in Dubai, the developer said.
Zabeel, based in Dubai, hired architecture firm Graft LLC to design an America-themed hotel in the city, the closely held developer said in a statement. Los Angeles-based Graft, which has worked with Mr. Pitt on rebuilding efforts in New Orleans, will include the 44-year-old actor on its Dubai design team, Zabeel said.
“Acting is my career, architecture is my passion,” Mr. Pitt said in the statement. As “my first major construction project,” the Dubai hotel will feature “environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment.”
Detailed plans for the hotel and resort will be made public in the next few months, Zabeel said. The developer didn’t give the project’s exact location or say how much it would cost to build.
“Dubai has attracted celebrities to its projects as a means of marketing them to an international audience,” the chief executive officer of Expression FZ LLC, a Dubai-based marketing agency, Scott Feasey, said.
