This project involves construction of Hilton Garden Inn hotel comprising 265 rooms and Double Tree by Hilton comprising 110 serviced apartments, will be located in the dynamic upcoming area of Riyadh, close to King Abdullah Financial District in Saudi Arabia. The 15-storey development will share a host of business facilities including: • A large, multi-purpose function room, • Eight (8) meeting rooms and • Four (4) boardrooms. Other facilities within Hilton Garden Inn are kept to a minimum, with the HDT providing the bulk of the 5 star facilities. These facilities include: • Three (3) restaurants, • Meeting facilities, • A ballroom, • Fitness centre, • Pool, • Kids club, and • Landscaped external deck and • Basketball courts. The building will be 59 m tall. The FoH spaces are all centred around an external courtyard, which both provided a focal point to the development and natural light to the podium floors. The final design was based on the two hotel masses interlocked to form a cube. The split between the hotel masses being expressed by a glazed slot, which snakes its way up the building. This glazed slot also provides views out to the city from the guest lift lobby on each of the DoubleTree floors and on the upper floors of the Garden Inn. As the initial design for the DoubleTree by Hilton and Hilton Garden Inn Development in Riyadh progressed, it became clear that in order to meet both client aspirations and operator brand standards, the hotel and suites would need to fall under separate brands.