Headquarters of Aldar, UAE

In Abu Dhabi, you can see a great circular glass building. The circle is embedded in the ground and resembles a glass disk. ALDAR Laing O’Rourke – the main contractor of this building – has chosen the place for Headquarters of Aldar. The unusual building was finished in 2010 and at once became the most unbelievable and effect futuristic place in the whole world. Its high is 121 meters. All 23 floors are used for the commercial purposes.

This office centre can have at once up to 20 000 people. Since the building, the unusual skyscraper became a real decoration of the city. You can see it as from the seaside as from the central part of the city. The unusual form was chosen not by accident. The skyscraper has a deep symbolic meaning. The circle is a symbol or rationality, stability and unity. More than that it is used to consider it as the symbol of perfection and infinity. The whole building’s area is 123 000 square meters.

Approximately more than 270 million USA dollars were spent for the skyscraper building. Today Headquarters of Aldar is open for tourists. The top floor has several great restaurants and a small hotel. The main peculiarity of the hotel rooms is large floor-to-ceiling windows. From them opens a great panorama view on the Persian Gulf. The most extraordinary this building looks in the evening when it is decorated with a bright lightning. Next - Kanagawa Institute of Technology