Additionally, the building’s position as the “gateway” to Al Maryah Island gives it a particular importance that we were eager to embrace. The surrounding architecture, all new construction as well, is much more rectilinear in form. The curvilinear, “fluid” form of the Rosewood, ties the architecture of the surrounding buildings together and balances out the adjacent straight lines. Reflective glass was chosen for its daytime shimmer and its nighttime luminescence.