Hyatt Capital Gate

The Capital Gate ‘Feature Tower’ is an iconic building located on the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center site. It is distinguished by a dramatic steel and glass facade.

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Hyatt Capital Gate

Abu Dhabi, UAE

The Capital Gate ‘Feature Tower’ is an iconic building located on the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center site. It is distinguished by a dramatic steel and glass facade with a striking organic form.
With its cantilevered tea lounge and open air pool deck, it provides a unique presence on the skyline of Abu Dhabi and creates a memorable identity to the exhibition center.
A sculptural stainless steel ‘splash’ flows down the front and at low level forms the hotel entrance canopy, flowing over the existing grandstand and acting as a solar shading device for both the building and the grandstand seating. A free form internal atrium with a dynamic glass roof brings natural light and space deep into the tower.
The building’s external lighting is designed to minimize both light pollution and energy consumption, based on a combination of low-level landscape lighting with façade lighting comprising a net of compact LED clusters integrated into the design of the steel glazing system.
The building is 35 levels high and offers over 16,000 m² of high quality office space, as well as Abu Dhabi’s first Hyatt hotel, ‘The Hyatt Capital Gate’. It stands at over 160 m tall.
Structurally, this challenging building sits on an intensive distribution of 490 piles which have been drilled 30 metres underground to accommodate the gravitational, wind and seismic forces caused by the distinctive lean of the building. In January 2010, Capital Gate Abu Dhabi was recognized as the world’s furthest leaning man-made tower by the Guinness Book of World Records.