这是Francois Blanciak Architects建筑事务所为第十一届ThyssenKrupp国际执业建筑师设计竞赛（ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Award）提交的设计方案。

这个竞赛由德国ThyssenKrupp电梯公司和迪拜市政府联合举办，主题为“迪拜城市象征”（Tall Emblem of Dubai），由全球106个国家的4651名建筑师组建的2967支设计团队参与了本次竞赛，评审团共收到了926件有效参赛作品。

The tower is conceived as virtually reversible, its top and bottom parts having similar circular characteristics. In sharp contrast with the surrounding office buildings, the circulation core here is not the focus of the plan but an element around which the program of the tower oscillates. The lower part of the project contains a children’s library on level 1, and a series of 3 conference rooms on level 2.

As a reference to islamic architecture, a shaded arcade surrounds the ground level courtyard that leads to the entrance of the children’s library. Hosting an art gallery and designed as a prolongation of the movement induced by the rest of the building, the generously cantilevered top-level viewing platform offers a 270° panoramic view of the most scenic part of the dubai skyline.

Structurally, the tower is engineered as a continuous steel cage which transmits the load to the deep central foundations of the circulation core. As the two opposite horizontal parts of the tower are basically symmetrical, the weight of the podium is used to balance and stabilize the cantilever of the viewing platform.