Union National Bank Head Office Building

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The building "consists of two basement car parking levels, an interconnected ground- and mezzanine-level bank, and 14 typical open-plan office floors, the thirteenth and fourteenth floors being smaller in area. The bank occupies all floors up to the sixth inclusive, with the remaining floors being let. This system operates by having an additional side entrance with a two-lift core which only serves the upper floors, for use by the tenants. The bank can expand upwards by simply controlling lift-door openings, thereby allowing for internal flexibility is use. 
The building is fairly typical of the standard international style of office building. The plan form is very effective, with the vertical core located on one side to service open-plan office floors. Externally the building is finished with a granite frame within which sits a cantilevered curtain wall of double glazing and aluminum panels." (Damluji, Salma Samar. "Constraints and Opportunities." In The Architecture of The United Arab Emirates. Garnet Publishing, 2006. p. 134)

 

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