2019/06/28

CAPITAL GATE- THE LEANING BUILDING

Capital gate is a building that hold the Guinness World Records for the "farthest man mad leaning building" in the word, it is a 18 degree of incline, which dethroned the Leaning Tower of Suurhusen (5.19 degree of incline).


It is a thirty-five-storey building with the total height of 160 m ( 520 ft). This construction is a complex of hotels and offices with the total floor area reach 53,100 sq m( 572,000 sq ft).


However, the focal point is how can the building stand with such a lean like that?
The whole structure rests on a 490 piling foundation that is approximately 30 meters long deeply drilled into the ground, allow the building to stand against the strong wind, the gravitation pull,...