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O-14 Tower Dubai Business Bay

Business Bay Skyscraper, UAE building design by RUR Architecture – Reiser + Umemoto architects

post updated 16 February 2024

O-14 tower, Business Bay, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dates built: 2006-12
Design: RUR Architecture – Reiser + Umemoto

O-14 is a twenty-two storey tall commercial tower perched on a two-storey podium in the heart of Dubai’s Business Bay.

O-14 Tower Dubai Business Bay building

Photos by Nelson Garrido

post updated 3 August 2020 ; 5 Oct 2012

O-14 Tower Dubai Skyscraper

O-14 comprises 300,000 square feet and is a collaboration between RUR Architecture of New York and the Creek Side Development Company of Dubai. O-14 is located along the extension of Dubai Creek, occupying a prominent location on the waterfront esplanade.

O-14 Tower Dubai Business Bay structure

The design of O-14 fundamentally shifts away from the architectural norm in current Dubai towers by eliminating the now obligatory curtain wall and above ground parking in favor of a shade-producing, concrete load-bearing shell and an open public space at the tower base achieved by moving the parking below ground.

O-14 Tower Dubai Business Bay skyscraper O-14 Tower Dubai interior

High-strength self-consolidating concrete was cast around a basket weave of steel reinforcement resulting in an elegant perforated exterior shell. The holes are achieved by introducing computer numerically cut polystyrene void forms into the rebar matrix, and sided with modular steel slip forms prior to the concrete pour.

O-14 Tower Dubai Business Bay building

The concrete shell of O-14 provides an efficient structure that frees the core from the burden of lateral forces and creates highly efficient, column-free open spaces in the buildings interior.

O-14 Tower Dubai building

The shell is not only the structure of the building but acts on the interiors as a sunscreen open to light, air, and views. The openings on the shell are modulated depending on structural requirements, views, sun exposure and luminosity.

O-14 Tower Dubai Business Bay office interior

A space nearly one meter deep between the shell and the glazing creates a ‘chimney effect,’ a phenomenon whereby hot air has room to rise and effectively cools the surface of the window wall behind the perforated shell.

O-14 Tower Dubai Business Bay Skyscraper

This passive solar technique essentially contributes to a natural component to the cooling system for O-14, thus reducing energy consumption by 30%, just one of many innovative aspects of the building’s design.

O-14 Tower Dubai Business Bay streetscape

Previously:
June 2, 2009

O-14 Dubai

Reiser+umemoto’s Lace-like Office Tower O-14 Has Topped Out In Dubai

In May of 2009, the exterior shell of O-14 was topped out, revealing the full height concrete exoskeleton, which surrounds the tower in a lace-like veil.

O-14 Tower Dubai office interior Business Bay

The project has generated extraordinary international interest in the architectural press. It is among the very first innovative designs to be constructed among a sea of generic office towers that have come to be the standard in Dubai’s recent building boom.

Business Bay Skyscraper, UAE building design by RUR Architecture - Reiser + Umemoto, architects
photo : Imre Solt

Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto, the principals of RUR Architecture, credit the Creek Side Development Company for encouraging their innovative design approach to O-14 and refer to their relationship as a ‘unique collaboration’. Each floor of O-14 has been already been sold to future tenants who can arrange the flexible floor space according to their individual needs. In addition to office tenants, the building will contain upscale retail spaces and a restaurant at promenade level, as well as an elevated podium restaurant for formal dining with spectacular views of Dubai Creek and the rest of the neighboring Dubai skyline.
O-14 will be completed in the Spring of 2010.

Previously:

O-14 Skyscraper

22 storeys
commercial tower

Dubai Business Bay tower

REISER+UMEMOTOS O-14 TOWER WILL BE FEATURED IN A CBS NEWS DOCUMENTARY, AIRING ON THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL ON OCTOBER 9TH

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O-14 will be featured in an upcoming television special entitled Impossible City, an hour-long documentary about the recent explosion of growth in Dubai, which is currently being produced by CBS News. It will air on the Discovery Channel at 10pm EST on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 and will be rebroadcast at 9pm EST on Saturday, October 25th, 2008.

Impossible City will feature O-14 during one of six segments; throughout the segment, architect Jesse Reiser and developer Shahab Lufti will guide viewers through the science behind the design of O-14, and the advanced technologies which contribute to its realization.

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O-14, a twenty-two story tall commercial tower perched on a two-story podium in the heart of Dubai Business Bay, comprises 300,000 square feet and will be located along the extension of Dubai Creek. The design of O-14 fundamentally shifts away from the architectural norm in current Dubai towers by eliminating the now obligatory curtain wall solutions and above ground parking, in favor of a shade-producing, concrete load-bearing shell and an open public space at the tower base achieved through below ground parking.

The project has recently generated extraordinary international interest in the architectural press as it is among the very first innovative designs to be constructed among a sea of generic office towers that have come to be the standard in Dubai’s current building boom. As of September 2008, the first nine floors and exterior shell of O-14 have been cast, revealing the beginnings of the perforated concrete shell exoskeleton – the building will be completed in the Spring of 2009.

Further construction pictures of the O-14 tower:
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