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The Belgian city of Antwerp may be known as the world’s diamond trading hub, but Mumbai’s lesser-known city of Surat is where around 90% of all the planet’s diamonds are cut. It’s for this very reason that the Indian city decided to go after another record-breaking achievement by building the world’s biggest office building, the Surat Diamond Bourse. And it’s massive.

The newly-opened building houses over 65 000 diamond professionals, including cutters, polishers, and traders. Featuring a succession of nine rectangular structures interconnected with a central “spine,” the sprawling 15-storey complex has been built across more than 14 hectares of land.The project is set to welcome its first occupants in November after four years of construction work, two of which were hampered by Covid-related delays.

The building was masterminded by Indian architecture firm Morphogenesis following an international design competition. There are also plans for a seven million-person city, dubbed “The ambitious plan, which has Prime Minister Modi’s support, aims to build a “smart” city across almost 700 hectares of south Surat. Perhaps this is what Cyril was wafting about?Morphogenesis claims that its design also consumes as much as 50% less energy than the maximum permitted in India.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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