Surat Diamond Bourse: Gujarat Now Has World’s Largest Office, Bigger than US’ Pentagon
The Surat Diamond Bourse is the world’s largest office building which will be the hub for all diamond trading activities.
Surat Diamond Bourse: Gujarat Now Has World’s Largest Office, Bigger than US’ Pentagon
Surat, India: The Surat Diamond Bourse is futuristic and also, according to its builders, ‘democratic’, and surpasses the Pentagon in terms of office space. (Image: SDB)The Surat Diamond Bourse is futuristic and also, according to its builders, ‘democratic’, and surpasses the Pentagon in terms of office space.
The Surat Diamond Bourse is the world’s largest office building which will be the hub for all diamond trading activities.
Surat, where around 90% of the world’s diamonds are cut, has added another feather to its cap with the newly-opened Surat Diamond Bourse which has surpassed the Pentagon as the world’s largest office building.
The mammoth industry will now be housed in the Surat Diamond Bourse which can house over 65,000 diamond professionals, including cutters, polishers and traders.
The building features a series of nine rectangular structures which spill out from and are interconnected through a central-spine. It is a 15-storeyed complex spread across more than 35 acres of land.
The architects of Surat Diamond Bourse told news outlet CNN that the building comprises over 7.1 million square feet of floor space. The Pentagon comprises over 6.5 million square feet of floor space.
No office in the Surat Diamond Bourse is more than seven minutes away from any of the entry gates, its builders say. The work began in 2019 and will be opened in November. Covid-19 slightly delayed the construction of the Surat Diamond Bourse. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the building later this year.
There are 4,700 office spaces – each interconnected – which can also accommodate small workshops for cutting and polishing diamonds. The cost of the building is ₹3,200 crores ($388 million).
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