3. The Tower

4. Equivalent To Over 100 Floors

6. Design of Its Own

7. Symmetrical
Symmetrical
Symmetrical Asymmetrical

9. The Business Tower Contains:
62 Office Floors
5 Mechanical Floors
2 Refuge Floors
2 Sky Lobbies

11. High Rise
VIEW SKY LOBBY 2
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Mid Rise
VIEW SKY LOBBY 1
Low Rise

16. Al Hamra Luxury Center

18. The Plaza

22. Global Recognition
CANNES - FRANCE

23. American Architecture Award
2008
The Chicago Athenaeum Museum Of Architecture And Design

24. The final design was chosen by the owner out of 7
different options
The design was the most challenging in both shape and
construction

25. Rotation axis
Offset weight on the top west side induces a torque and results in a 250 mm rotation at
building top

26. Plan for typical offices floor
11 m

27. Entrance columns curve outwards
from a height of 60 m to create
a column free main lobby

28. Piles
289 piles 1200 mm diameter ranging in
depth from 22 to 27 m
3000 ton pile test rig

29. Foundations
A 4 m thick raft in 25000 m3 concrete
forms the tower’s foundation

30. Composite construction, steel plates up to 160 mm thick

31. Entrance lamella structure

32. Fiber glass formwork of different sizes and shapes

33. Complexity in the entrance structure
delayed slabs above entrance
Construction caught up at 52nd floor

34. Flared wall moves horizontally 50 m in
360 m height

35. GPS surveying system
3 antennas on tower top
Fixed station in shuwaikh area

36. Concrete strength reached 1200 kg/cm2

37. Structural components:
-Reinforced concrete : 195,000 m3
-Structural steel : 6,000 tons
-Reinforcing steel : 38,000 tons