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Boulevard. The office tower houses a number of financial and government offices such as the Office of the Prime Minister of the UAE, the Executive Council, and more recently the Dubai Future Accelerators Program and a variety of young entrepreneurs and professionals. The office tower, nicknamed the "White House of Dubai", witnesses a high profile and diverse clientele. The hotel features a unique atrium which spans 31 floors. The hotel houses the Godolphin ballroom, a flotation therapy pool room at the Talise Spa, and the Chopard ladies-only floor rendering it one of the first hotels in the UAE to have a dedicated ladies floor. The towers stand on grounds that span 510,000 square meters or 42 acres. A famous sighting on these grounds are the freely roaming peacocks belonging to the Zabeel Palace.
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paneled with aluminum allowing them to capture the changing sunlight, creating different perspectives of the towers. The aluminum paneling also allows the towers to reflect of each other, generating a theme of movement, fulfilling Wong's design objectives: "to create the composition and placement of the twin towers to appear to be constantly changing, depending on the point of view and time of day." Aside from aluminum, Wong utilizes glass, steel, and concrete in a variety of ways to form the complex roof top geometry and the four legged base of the triangular towers.
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Islamic themes in modern architecture. The earth, sun, and moon are especially stressed in Islam, thus, this triumvirate was conceptualized in the equilateral triangles that make up the towers. The triangles are
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