[Waqas]

Designed by: ICPL
Developers: Dolmen Group
Status: Under Construction
Contractors: Paragon Constructors Pvt. Ltd
Building Type: Commercial + Corporate
Plot Size: 31,494 sq. meters
No. Of Towers: 4

Tower 1 [Executive Tower]
Height: + 200'-0"
Total Floor Above Ground: 18
Office Floors: 12
Covered Area: approx. 192,000 sq ft

Tower 2 [Traingular Tower]
Height: + 210'-0"
Total Floor Above Ground: 19
Office Floors: 17
Covered Area: approx. 255,000 sq ft

Tower 3 [Twin Tower]
Height: + 700'-0"
Total Floor Above Ground: 60
Office Floors: 60
Covered Area: approx. 960,000 sq ft

Tower 4 [Twin Tower]
Height: + 700'-0"
Total Floor Above Ground: 60
Office Floors: 60
Covered Area: approx. 960,000 sq ft
Total Parking Space : +4700 Cars
Covered Car Parking: +3500 Cars
Surface Car Parking: 1200 Cars

Mall
Departmental Store Covered Area:approx 45,000 sq. ft
Hyper Market & Retail Outlets Covered Area: approx 535,000 sq ft
Atrium A: approx 10,000 sq ft
Atrium B: approx 3,700 sq ft
Recreational Covered Area: approx 20,000 sq ft
Exhibition Area: approx 8,125 sq ft
Food Court and restaurants Area: approx 75,000

Location: Clifton, Karachi



Render:

































Description:

Project Dolmen City, situated on the tranquil sea, is the largest and classiest in shopping concepts in Pakistan. It is part of a grand master plan to creat a city within a city and one of the most prestigious building projects in Pakistan. It is only one of its kind in Pakistan.

It is the newest dimension in the concept of shopping and office space with a plot size of 31,494 sq. meters. Dolmen City comprises four towers housing office space plus a mega mall. The Executive Tower, 12 storeys high; the Triangular 17-storey tower; and the two 60-storey high towers will house office spaces. The facade of Dolmen City complex is designed with 'curtain walls', 'aluminum composite' and 'fair faced' panels which will be weather proof and durable, requiring no painting or maintenance. The glass used will be double-glazed and tempered making it sound proof.

Site Plan: N/A
Floor Plan:







http://www.urbanpk.com/upkgallery/projectpictures/Karachi/Dolmen%20City/Karachi%20-%20Dolmen%20City%20-%20Floor%20Plan%20-%2004.jpg

http://www.urbanpk.com/upkgallery/projectpictures/Karachi/Dolmen%20City/Karachi%20-%20Dolmen%20City%20-%20Floor%20Plan%20-%2005.jpg

http://www.urbanpk.com/upkgallery/projectpictures/Karachi/Dolmen%20City/Karachi%20-%20Dolmen%20City%20-%20Floor%20Plan%20-%2006.jpg

Model: N/A
Website: N/A
Cost: Rs. 3.15 Billion
Construction Date: 1-Apr-2006
Completion Date: 31-Dec-2009

This post has been edited by musiddiqui: 31 October 2009 - 09:26 AM
Reason for edit: Info Updated

[Jilawatan]

Main Features Office

The Office Towers offer the following facilities:

Office Space

Executive Tower (18 floors)--------approx. 192,000 sq ft
Triangular Tower (19 floors)--------approx. 255,000 sq ft
Tower 1 (60 floors) ---------------approx. 960,000 sq ft
Tower 2 (60 floors) ---------------approx. 960,000 sq ft

Spacious Lobbies
24- hr uninterrupted power supply
24 hr security vigilance
Ample reserved car parking space for each floor
Central airconditioning
Each tower individually serviced by elevators
Each tower linked to the mall with elevators.


Main Features Mall

The Mall offers the following facilities to the discriminating shopper or retail outlet owner:

Retail Space
Departmental Store --------------approx 45,000 sq. ft
Hyper Market & Retail Outlets ----approx 535,000 sq ft

Atrium A ------------------------approx 10,000 sq ft
Atrium B ------------------------approx 3,700 sq ft

Covered car park space for over 3,500 cars and surface car park for another 1200 cars.
24 hr uninterrupted power supply
Recreational facilities with bowling area and gaming arcade --- approx 20,000 sq ft
Exhibition area ------------------approx 8,125 sq ft
Food Court and restaurants ------approx 75,000 sq ft with 1,400 person seating capacity
Coffee Shop --------------------approx 5,000 sq ft

Two elevators, 21 escalators, six freight lifts and seven customer elevators.

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[Jilawatan]

[UnitedPakistan]

[Tekno Arkitect]

A project being undertaken at a huge scale yet it does give a wow feeling!! The design gives a rigid feeling and a collection of solid cuboids with too straight finishes.....they could have played around with spaces and forms over here..!!

UP thanks fer the updates!!

[Abdullah Hayat]

Salam,

The triangular structure has now started to give a look of a tower! I am wondering what the 60-story towers would look like. Its hard to believe that they would look like what (little) is revealed in the rendering. Hopefully, the design would be as good as the scale of the project.

Thanks for the updates, UP!!

Peace.

[Alam]

[jaad]

hmm , cool man !

where is this project being built???

by the looks it seems like behind II Chundrigar Road????

[omersiddiqi]

jaad, on Jan 3 2007, 12:59 PM, said:

hmm , cool man !

where is this project being built???

by the looks it seems like behind II Chundrigar Road????

no man it is near seaview apts adjacent to McDonalds,Well da construction of 2 towers has begun and 1 floor wuz also visible wen i last saw it

[Nauman80]

yes these towers are constructing at a faster pace and hopefully by the end of 2007, the 60-storey twin towers would also be visible.

[Tekno Arkitect]

Salams
One month ago when i visited the place, i only saw the two small building being worked up. There was no sign of the 2 60 storey towers, neither did i hear anythin abt them. R u mistaken by the two existing building or is there construction going on aswell apart from the two small towers?

[Waqas]

1.9mn sqft is alot of space to sell, I guess they would advertise the project alot before starting construction on the twin towers.

[SwerveUT]

I visited this site today and had a long discussion with their Marketing manager which clarified a lot of things about this project. But I will tell those later, first some great pictures:

The Triangular Tower

[SwerveUT]

Some Project Details

[SwerveUT]

The top floor of the executive tower:



Some INCREDIBLE views from the top:

In this picture you can see the Clifton seafront and the Beach Park behind the triangular tower:




A view of the seaview area from the top of the executive tower (You can see a large empty plot besides this project in the foreground in this picture... this plot is fenced in, and could be a site for another large project... maybe the port tower?):

[SwerveUT]

Alright, now before I give more wonderful pictures, lemme recount my meeting with the marketing manager:

I asked him about the whole project and completion times and this is what he told me:

- Executive tower is all finished except for three and a half floors, and all floors (except the three) have been occupied. They have given out the offices mostly to multinational companies and all have already occupied it except for a few that are renovating their floors according to their business requirements. Entrance to the executive tower is currently from the back side where a large underground parking facility exists for the occupants. The tower and parking etc. is all international standard, top quality construction from my observation.

- The Triangular tower should be finished by mid 2007 and should be giving out occupancy by then.

- The mall should also finish by late 2007, but may not be officially launched till early 2009 for some reason that I dont know.

and now for the breaking news........

drumroll.....

- The two 42 Story towers are also going to be finished by 2009. Why 42 stories you may ask? well, the original plan was for 60 story buildings and the construction will still be as planned. However, only about 42 stories will be constructed as of now because of an ongoing tussle between the developers and PAF base Masroor (Mansoor?). They are not allowing the building height to exceed 55 stories which might end up to be the final height of the towers, but dialogue is still going on, and the height might end up to being 60 stories as originally planned.

Why PAF Masroor isnt allowing them to build high is beyond my comprehension but Dolmen has my full support in this. I think they should be allowed to build all they way to as high as they wantto go. After all, we should encourage this sort of development in our cities instead of putting in bottlenecks in front of it.

[SwerveUT]

And now some great pictures of the 42 story towers:















And some images from the top:

[Jilawatan]

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Why PAF Masroor isnt allowing them to build high is beyond my comprehension but Dolmen has my full support in this. I think they should be allowed to build all they way to as high as they wantto go. After all, we should encourage this sort of development in our cities instead of putting in bottlenecks in front of it.

I am sure they have very good reasons, otherwise they don't usually bother.