Leaning Tower "Capital Gate"
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Leaning Tower "Capital Gate" - is one of the main architectural attractions of Abu Dhabi. The developer and owner of one of the tallest and most famous skyscrapers of the city was the company Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC). The project was designed by the architectural firm RMJM. In English the name of the tower means "the gates of the capital."

Building Leaning Tower started in 2007 and ended in 2011. The building has a total of thirty-five floors. On the lowest floor 160-meter building, "Capital Gate" located office space (15 square meters), from the nineteenth and the thirty-third floor - a luxurious five-star Hyatt hotel with 189 rooms and suites with views of the Arabian Gulf.

In 2010, while still in the construction phase, the leaning tower was included in the Guinness Book of Records. The slope of the skyscraper "Capital Gate" about 4, 5 times more than the world famous Leaning Tower. The first twelve tower floors arranged vertically one above the other. Further, the levels of a skyscraper located in steps, gradually increasing the size of the "steps", which gave the building slope.

The foundation "Capital Gate" reinforced 490 piles have been driven into the ground to a depth of 30 m. The basis of the design of the building has served as a steel-reinforced "skeleton" composed of 8, 5 thousand plates diagonal grid that distributes the load and prevents skyscraper fall. "Capital Gate" - the first in the Middle East construction using cross-ply technology.

The main attraction of the falling towers "Capital Gate" is a five-star business hotel Hyatt Capital Gate. Guests at the hotel offers rooms of high class with impeccable service and modern interiors, a wonderful swimming pool, a cozy fitness center, spacious meeting rooms and an excellent restaurant. Special attention at the hotel deserves a spacious panoramic floor, at a height of 80 m above the ground with amazing views of the capital and unusual conical atrium.

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