World's Top 10 colourful skyscrapers: Which Dubai tower makes list?

It’s not merely blue, gray, white or beige colour, but Dubai – the city of skyscrapers and with one of the best skylines in the world – has one of the most colorful hi-rises as well.

The 130-metre-high Al Attar Tower, clad in dark-green glass and gold facade elements, has been named among the world’s most colourful hi-rises by Emporis, the international provider of building data.

Construction started on the 32-storey tower in 1994 with the building getting completed in 1997.

The estimated cost was Dh85 million. Al Turath Engineering Consultants are the architect.

While Emporis does mention that the Silver Tower in Abu Dhabi is quite similar to the Al Attar Tower, it adds that some buildings across the world are a “real riot of colour” with vivid facades in scarlet, turquoise or canary yellow, or even combining all the colours of the rainbow.

Emporis data reveals Dubai has 1,881 tall buildings of which 856 exist, 627 are planned, 355 under construction, 42 un-built and one demolished. Overall, there are 909 high-rises and 448 skyscrapers.

Colorium in Düsseldorf, Germany, designed by the British architect and painter Will Alsop, is on the list.

The tower’s spectacular façade is dominated by the colours — red, blue, green and yellow — consisting of over 2,200 glass panels printed with a total of 17 patterns ranging from single-colour to four-colour.

Other towers on the list are the Broadcasting Tower in Leeds, Great Britain; F&F Tower Panama City, Panama and First World Hotel in Genting, Malaysia.

“Colorful buildings do not just provide a welcome change from uniform-appearance blocks: bright colours also have a positive effect on the mood and on the memory and reaction times of those looking at them, as researchers at the University of Essex in England have recently discovered,” Emporis states.

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