The Al Bahr Towers stand at the intersection of Al Saada and Al Salam Streets at the eastern entrance to Abu Dhabi. Aedas, now AHR, designed them. The Abu Dhabi Investment Council holds one tower and the other is the head office of Al Hilal Bank. Al-Futtaim Carillion was the contractor. The article gives no start date and lists the style as Islamic architecture.
The two towers are 145 meters (476 feet) tall, with 70,000 square meters of floor area. Their facade carries about 2,000 umbrella-like glass elements that open and close with sunlight under a building management system. The shading is said to cut heat gain by roughly 50 percent. Wooden mashrabiya screens inspired it.
It earned a LEED Silver rating, one of the first in the Persian Gulf. It took second place at the 2012 Emporis Skyscraper Award.
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