Very few know about the new design for One Central Park that will be located on a prominent corner site within the Dubai International Finance Centre. The 80-storey 328m mixed-use tower, combining 520 luxury apartments with 25 floors of office space, and shops, restaurant, pool, and health club, will have the world’s highest apartment. This eye-catching shape building is planned to be completed by early 2008.
What makes this architecture unique and special is its east – west orientation aimed to maximize views over the Finance Centre and to the coastline and desert. This orientation also reduces solar gain, with the building core mass absorbing heat to reduce mechanical ventilation loads. A system of sunshades shelters the interiors on the exposed south elevation.
The One Central Park will be featured on a landscape surrounded by sculptured pools of water and underground car parks. The building will serve over 40 levels of apartments rising above the office levels while providing various facilities for residents including a reception, lounge, restaurant, and fitness centre with a swimming pool. With all this luxurious features I would hate to know that the purpose of such engineered masterpiece is to provide empty penthouse apartments with spectacular views!
