The Emirates Tower - Dubai

Great looking sunset with Emirates Tower…
With a total usable floor area of 140,000 m² from 54 floors Emirates Office Tower and 56 floors Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel located in the southern part of Dubai’s city center.

“Clad in aluminium panels with copper and silver reflective glass, the towers capture the changing light of the desert sun. So as you drive around them, they change from every angle. It’s a dynamic composition rather than a static one, and that’s very important, especially when the buildings can be viewed from all parts of the city.

“To achieve the height, I started focusing on an equilateral triangle form, which serves a few purposes. First of all, it distributes the structural load at its three farthest corners, which would give the stability that a high building needs. But beyond that, it is a form that is evocative of the Islamic culture: in the pattern of a triangle, the points represent the earth, the sun and the moon. And recurring circle elements in the tower, at the base and at the top, echo the circle of the ‘timeless whole’, which means eternity in the Islamic context. So, very subtly, the Islamic culture is integrated.” - Architect of The Emirates Tower

(photo courtesy: Buddy Dela Cruz)

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