Abbco Tower, Residential skyscraper in Al Nahda, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Abbco Tower is a 48-storey, 190-metre residential skyscraper in central Sharjah, east of Al Nahda Park. Construction began in 2005 and the building opened in 2006, designed by Dimensions Engineering Consultants and built by Ali Mousa & Sons Contracting for 110 million UAE dirhams. It is named after a subsidiary of the Dubai developer Bonyan International Investment Group.
Construction of the Abbco Tower began in 2005; the general contractor was Ali Mousa & Sons Contracting and the design came from Dimensions Engineering Consultants, with a total construction sum of 110 million UAE dirhams. The building opened in 2006 and is named after a subsidiary of the Dubai-based developer Bonyan International Investment Group. On 5 May 2020 at 21:04 local time a fire broke out on the tenth floor and spread to the floors above; the tower was evacuated and the blaze extinguished after several hours, causing severe damage and few injuries.
The tower's name comes from Abbco, a subsidiary of the Dubai developer Bonyan International Investment Group, which financed the project. Its 48 floors are given over to apartments, so the building is lived in rather than visited; the residents are the only public its interior knows. The ground-floor entrance and lift lobby are the one part a passer-by can see.
The tower stands in the city centre just east of Al Nahda Park, in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It is a residential building, so interiors and facilities are not open to the public. The fire of 5 May 2020 began on the tenth floor at 21:04 local time and damaged the storeys above it.
The structure dedicates approximately 20 of its 48 floors exclusively to vehicle parking, making it an unusually parking-focused building for the city. This amount of parking space reflects the high car-dependency characteristic of the region.
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