Capital Gate is an iconic leaning
skyscraper located in Abu Dhabi adjacent to the Abu Dhabi National
Exhibition Centre. At 160 meter (520 ft) and 35 stories, it is one of
the tallest buildings in the city and leans at an astounding 18 degrees
to the west, four times than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa. In June
2010, the Guinness Book of World Records certified Capital Gate as the
"World’s furthest leaning man-made tower." To make this possible, the
central core of the building slants in the opposite direction to the
lean of the structure, and it straightens as it grows. The building sits
on top of a 7-foot-deep concrete base with a dense mesh of reinforced
steel. The steel exoskeleton known as the diagrid sits above an
extensive distribution of 490 piles that have been drilled 100 feet
underground to accommodate the gravitational, wind and seismic pressures
caused by the lean of the building.
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