Tom Wright's design for the hotel reflects the heritage of the Dubai sailor, resembling the spinnaker sail of a yacht of the J. class.
The large Teflon-like fiberglass cloth membrane that closes the atrium wall is tilted outwards by suspended crossbeams of the tower, reproducing in a fairly faithful way the sails that wave attached to their masts in the sailboats that sail in the vicinity. Its horizontal arches resist the wind loads, and the tensioned fabric between this kind of meridians that once became a set of rigid panels: "hyperbolic paraboloids", resting at a perfect speed.

The structure of this work of art of architecture is a braced framework formed by steel profiles and guarantees its stability both by its triangular shape in plan and by the triangulation of its facades.

The foundations of piles cross the bed of sand and are organized in groups concentrated around the main points of support. The land reclaimed from the sea sits around this formation.
The practical base structure is decorated with a large external frame, an exoskeleton that stands out from the main structure as a decorative element. The components of this stylized assembly are curvilinear braced diagonally. This superfluous mechanism is sharpened as it extends upwards to reach the attic, where the restaurant is located, which extends forward and to the sides in cantilever, a from this intersection with the core intended for vertical circulation.