Al-Masood Tower

Notes

The tower is twenty stories high and contains commercial spaces on the ground floor and mezzanine; parking is on the underground levels. The building site is situated along a main commercial street flanked by modern high-rise buildings, and its size and shape are dictated by building regulations. This was the first time in the U.A.E. that such a tall building gets equipped with an underground parking and gets built entirely of a steel structure cladded with satin-finish aluminum panels. On the other hand, ground floor columns are cladded with stainless steel.
Tukan’s use of these materials allowed speed and precision in construction, as well as durability.
 

Sources

Ali Abu Ghanimeh and Mario Pisani, Jafar Tukan: Architecture, Melfi (Potenza): Libria, 2001, p. 68-69.

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