page_title: Aldar Headquarters building
section_title: Use of the golden ratio
hierarchical_section_title: Aldar Headquarters building / Use of the golden ratio
caption_attribution_description: Image of a human body in a pentagram from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's Libri tres de occulta philosophia. Symbols of the sun and moon are in center, while the other five classical "planets" are around the edge.
context_page_description: The Aldar Headquarters building is the first circular building of its kind in the Middle East. It is located in Al Raha, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
  The shape of this building is achieved through the use of structural diagrid, a diagonal grid of steel.
  The building features the following elevators:
  12 passenger elevators
  2 service elevators
  3 mono space elevators
  1 circular hydraulic lift
  2 dumbwaiters
  23 floors
context_section_description: The extent that the circle is embedded in the ground was designed around the golden ratio.
caption: Image of a human body in a pentagram from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's Libri tres de occulta philosophia. If the inner circle were the circumference of the building, the ground level would be at the base of the pentagram (at the figure's feet).[4]
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