New Delhi: Gujarat’s Surat which will house a diamond trading centre is the newest largest office in the world, surpassing Pentagon, which held the record for 80 years, according to a CNN report. Surat is the gem capital of the world where 90 per cent of the world’s diamonds are cut. The newly-constructed Surat Diamond Bourse will be a “one-stop destination” for over 65,000 diamond professionals, including cutters, polishers and traders..
The 15-storey building is spread across 35 acres of land and has nine rectangular structures. They are all interconnected via a central spine. According to the company that built the sprawling complex, it comprises over 7.1 million square feet of floor space. The building, which took four years to construct, will be officially inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November this year, the report added.
The SDB site says that the complex has a recreational zone and parking area spread across 20 lakh square feet. It is a not-for-profit organisation promoted by SDB Diamond Bourse, a company registered under section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013 and formed for the establishment and promotion of Diamond Bourse in Surat, Gujarat.
The project’s CEO Mahesh Gadhavi told CNN that the new building complex will save thousands of people from travelling, sometimes daily, to Mumbai by train to do business. The building has been designed by Indian architecture firm Morphogenesis following an international design competition.
“Surpassing the Pentagon was not part of the competition brief. Rather, the project’s size was dictated by demand,” Gadhavi told CNN, adding that all the offices were purchased by diamond companies before the construction.
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