Capital Gate to Surpass Leaning Tower of Pisa

The 35 storey gravity defying feature Capital Gate tower will lean westward 18 degrees, 4 times as far as the Leaning Tower of Pisa which currently leans 3.97 degrees.The 160 meters tower expect to enter Guinness Book of Records as ‘World’s Most Inclined Tower’

Capital Gate will rise from the West side of the newly opened Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre and the tower is going to be the new icon for Abu Dhabi.

Because of its unique posture, the tower is being constructed on top of an incredibly dense mesh of reinforced steel. The dense mesh sits above an intensive distribution of 490 piles which have been drilled 30 metres underground to accommodate the gravitational, wind and seismic pressures caused by the lean of the building. Capital Gate also features 728 unique custom-made diamond-shaped glazing panels. Due to the structure’s curving shape, each pane of glass is different and each will be fitted at a slightly different angle.

“Capital Gate will be a building that the world will talk about, not because it has surpassed another building as the world’s tallest, but because of its aesthetic splendour and technical achievement.”Simon Horgan CEO of ADNEC Group said.

“Capital Gate will be one of a kind. Its graceful, asymmetric diagonal structure, known as a ‘diagrid’, supports the tilting external load of the building and we believe that this is the first building in the world to use a pre-cambered core.” David Pringle, CEO, RMJM Asia and the Middle East added.

When complete, Capital Gate will be 160 metres and 35 storeys tall and, in addition to the Hyatt at Capital Centre hotel, will provide the most exclusive office space in the UAE capital city.

Capital Gate forms a major part of the Capital Centre development, the US$2.2 billion business and residential micro city being constructed around Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.