Dubai's Emirates NBD among world's Top-10 bank buildings

Dubai is home to many spectacular buildings in the world: Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower, Princess Tower, the tallest residential tower, Cayan Tower, the world tallest tower with a 90-degree twist and many more.

Now, Dubai has also found a place in the list of world’s most spectacular bank buildings.

The sail-shaped tower, which houses Emirates National Bank of Dubai's head office, has been included in the list of top 12 bank buildings in the world, by Emporis, provider of building data and construction projects worldwide. (https://www.emporis.com/)

The building, designed by Norr Group Consultants Int Ltd and Carlos Ott Architect, is 125-metre-high and was completed in 1998.

It has 47 floors and with five elevators, the company said.

Bank of America Tower in the New York borough of Manhattan topped the list.

The tower, which serves the currently largest US bank as a prestigious administration building, is one of the most eye-catching in this city of skyscrapers.

The mast atop the total 366-metre building is not an antenna that has been attached to the roof, but a permanent element towering up out of the glass-clad structure.

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Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong is second on the list and is one of the world's tallest corporate headquarters.

The bank building breaks the 1,000-feet mark, the first building to achieve the feat outside the US.

The sharp-edged appearance, the triangular elements of its form, the shiny reflective facade and the metal panels that are illuminated at night all serve to make the tower reminiscent of a gigantic crystal.

However, the Macquarie Bank Centre in Sydney is a comparatively low building without load-bearing columns and provides light-flooded, colorful workspaces that jut out into the atrium at various levels and in various shapes.

The building, constructed sustainably, is supported by a silver-gray network of steel beams laid out evenly around the blue glass of the façade,

says Emporis.

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