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Designing the World´s Largest Office
Real Estate

Designing the World´s Largest Office

Morphogenesis has won the architectural competition to design what will be the worlds largest office building - Surat Diamond Bourse - at 6,500,000 sq ft, touted to become the centre of the international diamond trade. Integrating a vertical forest into the scheme, the firm takes this as its design challenge to achieve the highest standards of traffic and people management, an EPI of less than 50 kWh per sq m per year.

Contact: morphogenesis.
Website: www.morphogenesis.org

Morphogenesis has won the architectural competition to design what will be the worlds largest office building - Surat Diamond Bourse - at 6,500,000 sq ft, touted to become the centre of the international diamond trade. Integrating a vertical forest into the scheme, the firm takes this as its design challenge to achieve the highest standards of traffic and people management, an EPI of less than 50 kWh per sq m per year. Contact: morphogenesis. Website: www.morphogenesis.org

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