Dubai Towers Dubai
The unusual form of the building presented various challenges for its
designers – Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) – and developers. The
concrete structure rotates a hexagonal floor plate around a circular core
and the top of the tower is offset 90 degrees from the base. Corner and
interior columns of the tower twist as they ascend, but most of the
perimeter columns were shifted by a just a bit more than a single degree,
from floor to floor, resulting in a standardised construction method typical
to most large towers. As well as distinguishing the building, the twist also
greatly reduces wind force on the tower.
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