Indian Supertall Shines Like A Diamond

Still hot from establishing a reputation of designing skyscrapers in Shanghai, ECADI Architects has turned their eyes towards another emerging Asian superpower, India, and penned the supertall Diamond Tower.

Located in the emerging Gujarat International Finance Tec-City central business district in the Indian city of Gandhinagar, the scheme has been labeled "The Diamond Tower" to as a tip of the hat to the way Gujarat state is one of the world's leading centres of diamond production.

The architects have gone further than this though in trying to actually simulate the shape and glittering luminosity that a solid cut diamond gives off with the aim of making it one of the brightest towers in the world when it comes to solar reflectivity.

Initial plans saw the scheme proposed in a form more like a glass shard with the height dominating the skyline at 80 floors. Incredibly the office space for the GIFT masterplan sold out in less than a week forcing the developers to reconsider the scheme and increase its height to 400 metres with 87 floors.

Adding attractiveness to the scheme for tenants is the close connections that it has with the planned public transport system of GIFT that will see it linked directly in via a footbridge.

The Diamond Tower has now been approved by the relevant government bodies and is set to be built as part of the first phase of Gujarat International Finance Tec-City, the logic being that a monumental skyscraper can act as an anchor building and add prestige to the development.

Construction expected to begin as early as the end of 2008, and once completed will set a new record for the largest all office building on the Indian subcontinent

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