{"id":13777,"date":"2019-10-11T12:36:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T12:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/japans-nikken-sekkei-unveils-worlds-longest-cantilever-in-dubai\/"},"modified":"2019-10-11T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T12:36:54","slug":"japans-nikken-sekkei-unveils-worlds-longest-cantilever-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/japans-nikken-sekkei-unveils-worlds-longest-cantilever-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Nikken Sekkei unveils world\u2019s longest cantilever in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>UAE &#8211; Mubasher:<\/strong> Nikken Sekkei, Japan-based architectural, engineering, and urban design firm, on Thursday unveiled plans to lift the world\u2019s longest cantilever, The Link, on One Za\u2019abeel, an iconic mixed-use development in Dubai, UAE.<\/p>\n<p>The Link will be hoisted into place in early 2020, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The cantilever, which will measure 230 metres in length and weigh over 8,000 tonnes, will connect the towers of One Za\u2019abeel, the Japanese company noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDesigning the world\u2019s longest occupied building cantilever was an ambitious challenge in itself, however, designing an offset cantilever between two towers, 100 metres above a busy highway, was a challenge of ingenuity and imagination that we thrived on,\u201d Nikken\u2019s Executive Officer, Principal responsible for MENA, CIS, India, Australia and Europe regions Fadi Jabri said.<\/p>\n<p>The active highway will be closed to traffic during the construction phase, the release indicated.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the structure, One Za\u2019abeel, which is being developed by Nikken and Ithra Dubai, features a residential tower, high-end five-star hotel, commercial tower, and retail destination &#8211; The Gallery.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>UAE &#8211; Mubasher:<\/strong> Nikken Sekkei, Japan-based architectural, engineering, and urban design firm, on Thursday unveiled plans to lift the world\u2019s longest cantilever, The Link, on One Za\u2019abeel, an iconic mixed-use development in Dubai, UAE.<\/p>\n<p>The Link will be hoisted into place in early 2020, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The cantilever, which will measure 230 metres in length and weigh over 8,000 tonnes, will connect the towers of One Za\u2019abeel, the Japanese company noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDesigning the world\u2019s longest occupied building cantilever was an ambitious challenge in itself, however, designing an offset cantilever between two towers, 100 metres above a busy highway, was a challenge of ingenuity and imagination that we thrived on,\u201d Nikken\u2019s Executive Officer, Principal responsible for MENA, CIS, India, Australia and Europe regions Fadi Jabri said.<\/p>\n<p>The active highway will be closed to traffic during the construction phase, the release indicated.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the structure, One Za\u2019abeel, which is being developed by Nikken and Ithra Dubai, features a residential tower, high-end five-star hotel, commercial tower, and retail destination &#8211; The Gallery.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}