Mubarak Center

The Mubarak Centre, also known as Sheikh Zayed Centre, is an on-hold mixed-use complex for which construction began in Lahore, Pakistan. The complex was to include residential and office towers, as well as conference halls and a shopping mall underconnected to each other via a common basement totalling approximately of lettable area of office and retail space based on Building Owners and Managers Association measurements. Once completed, Mubarak Tower 1 was to have been the tallest building in Pakistan. The height of the building would have made it visible from neighbouring country India, and would have allowed residents of the upper floors views of the Golden Temple in Amritsar (approximately 50 km away) on clear days.
Postponement
In September 2009, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, leader of and former chief minister of Punjab, stated that the Sheikh Mubarak Al Nahyan Company had postponed the project of building the Mubarak Center in Lahore. Elahi alleged that inappropriate attitude and lack of interest on part of the Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had forced the project's foreign investors to leave, asserting that the project was one of several that had been "consumed by the flawed policies of the incumbent Punjab government and its retaliatory attitude." In November 2011 a plan to relaunch the project was made, but funding for the project was invalidated by the original funders.
Recently, the government and the construction company have proposed to revive the project.
Structural Information
* Tower 1 would be 250 meters, 60 floors tall. It would have 20 elevators.
* Tower 2 would be 200 meters, 45 floors tall. It would have 16 elevators.
* Tower 3 would be 170 meters, 40 floors tall. It would have 12 elevators.
* Tower 4 would be 170 meters, 40 floors tall. It would have 10 elevators.
* Tower 5 would be 85 meters, 20 floors tall. It would have 8 elevators.
The project
The project was being carried out as a 70/30 joint venture between the Abu Dhabi Group and the Government of Punjab. The two investors had formed a holding company for the Mubarak Centre called Taavun (Pvt.) Ltd., which was to be responsible for managing the project. Turner Construction, one of the largest construction companies in the US, were hired as contractors/builders. Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum were retained as project consultants and architects. The residential apartments were to be managed by Concord
The total cost of the project was projected at approximately US $1.2 billion.
The project was designed to cover eleven acres of prime land on main Ferozpur Road, Lahore, Pakistan. The complex would consist of four main towers and a smaller eclipse-shaped building. The main tower would be 60 stories tall, with the first 45 floors reserved for offices, and the 46th floor and upward for residential apartments. Also planned were a five-star hotel (with 400 rooms, ballrooms, banqueting facilities and all ancillary amenities) and a cineplex (with six independent theaters). The other three towers would be between 30 to 45 stories, with an eclipse-shaped tower in between, which would house uniquely designed apartments along with a five-story covered shopping mall, which would have been the largest shopping and entertainment complex in the Indian Subcontinent. The eclipse-shaped tower would also house the largest reception and conference halls in the country, holding 7,000 to 100,000 people.
There were to be exclusive, high-end residential suites in the main tower, managed by Hyatt Residency. The complex was to have been connected to the Gaddafi Stadium Sports Complex by a covered bridge or an underpass.

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