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Building: Hyatt at Capital Gate
Location: Abu Dhabi
Completion: 2011
Architect: RMJM Architects
Project Director: Tony Archibold

AE Interests: This 35-story, 200-room, five-star hotel is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “World’s Most Inclined Tower”, leaning 18º, four times farther than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The structure is supported by a pre-cambered reinforced concrete core. The specialized foundation is comprised of nearly five hundred 100-foot piles and a 7-foot deep reinforced concrete base. The facade consists of a diagrid exoskeleton (one of the few in the world) made of interlocking diamond-shaped glass panels.