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Another landmark for the Dubai city: The Opus.

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Nisha Bisht
 Another landmark for the Dubai city: The Opus.

In the heart of Dubai, halfway between the world’s tallest building (Burj Khalifa) and the newly opened Dubai Water Canal, construction is coming to an end on yet another landmark for the city: The Opus by Zaha Hadid.


Let's know bit about its architectural detail.


The Framing Systems

The fully glazed skin of the building is constituted by a combination of various solutions. The external straight façades and the inclined and curved void façades are built with a female-female unitized curtain wall system. Read more.

The External Façade

Even though the external elevations are flat, their appearance is nothing conventional. The façade was designed by the architects with a pattern of dots of changing diameters, arranged in stripes for an overall pulsating effect.


The Central Void Façade

The void façade geometry is a smooth compound of freeform curved surfaces that was analysed with parametric software, by checking panel sizes and offsets of the fourth corner in relation to the other three corners of a panel that define a reference plane.


For such to happen we need projects like this to push the limits, induce progress and help to transform the “unique” into the “usual”. Read to know detailed architectural facts.

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