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COPENHAGEN / ABU DHABI / SHANGHAI / BERLIN / VANCOUVER / LONDON / ST PETERSBURG AND BEYOND
HYATT AT CAPITAL CENTRE – ABU DHABI
RMJM ARCHITECTS CREATE ‘WORLD’S MOST INCLINED BUILDING’ FOR ABU DHABU NATIONAL EXHIBITIONS COMPANY
Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions – is cost efficient and environmentally said the unique branding reflected the Capital Gate forms a major part of
Company (ADNEC) has applied to the beneficial as it requires less structural unique nature of the building: “The the Capital Centre development, the
Guinness World Records for the title steel than a conventional steel frame. fact that the hotel has been developed AED8 billion business and residential
of ‘world’s most inclined building’ for In recent weeks, the tower’s ‘unique specifically for this project indicates an micro city being constructed around
Capital Gate, a development designed leaning posture’, designed to mimic understanding by all involved that this the newly opened Abu Dhabi National
by RMJM Architects. a wave, has begun to emerge as the is not an average hotel, in an average Exhibition Centre.
The tower is already under diagrid curves westward. Construction building in an average city – this is The building’s decorative ‘splash’
construction using the same ‘diagrid’ has already reached level eight of the something unique and very special, structure provides a sun shade for the
technology as the Swiss Re building 35-storey, 160m tower. which will exceed expectations.” Capital Gate tower itself, as well as a
in London (aka ‘The Gherkin’) and When complete, the building will Gebhard Rainer, Managing Director, new and creative treatment for the
the CCTV headquarters in Beijing. accommodate a five-star Hyatt hotel, Hyatt International (Europe, Africa & roof of the existing Grandstand canopy
According to RMJM, this system the company’s first in the UAE capital. Middle East) LLC described the project in the adjoining Abu Dhabi National
– formed by creating triangular Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahnoon Al Nayhan, as “the right building in the right Exhibition Centre Grandstand.
structures with diagonal support beams Chairman of Capital Centre and ADNEC location at the right time.”
www.capitalcentre.ae
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