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Rabdan Complex
Location
Abu Dhabi
Country
U. A. Emirates

Architect/Engineer/Team
(Team) Carlos Ott & NORR

Construction
1994/2000

Project Status
Built
Building Type
Mixed use (apartments, offices & commercial)

Notes
"The project consists of three residential towers with alternating curved facades resting on a ground- and first-floor podium that comprises two levels of shopping with 6,000 square meters of retail floor space. There are also two basement levels of car parking for approximately 280 cars. This project has very distinctive architectural quality with its series of curved facades. The earlier discourse on the highly questionable applicability of curtain-wall glazing to residential towers remains at issue [...] The granite facades dominate the external image, and are put together in a wide variety of different curves, both horizontally and vertically, in the three towers." (Damluji, Salma Samar. "Constraints and Opportunities." In The Architecture of The United Arab Emirates. Garnet Publishing, 2006. p. 137.)
Sources

Damluji, Salma Samar. "Constraints and Opportunities." In The Architecture of The United Arab Emirates. Garnet Publishing, 2006. p. 137.

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