The hotel's architecture is a Ziggurat, in the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.

It was designed by Slovenian architect Edvard Ravnikar and was originally intended to be built as a beach resort at Budva in Montenegro, in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

[1] When that project fell through, the plans were re-used and slightly adjusted for the new site in Baghdad.

Oberoi severed their connection with the hotel due to the 1991 Gulf War.

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