Aspire Tower or Torch Tower, Doha Qatar

Aspire Tower or Torch tower, Doha Qatar
Aspire Tower, also known as The Torch Doha, is a 980 feet skyscraper hotel located in the Aspire Zone complex in Doha, Qatar. The tower served as the focal point for the 15th Asian Games hosted by Qatar in December 2006. The tower is currently the tallest structure and building in Doha and Qatar.
The tower has also been known as Khalifa Sports Tower or Doha Olympic Tower.
The Aspire Tower was built to house the Symbolic Flame of the 2006 Asian Games. The design symbolizes a hand grasping the torch that sits at the tower’s top. The tower houses a five-star hotel, a sports museum, a health club with a cantilevered swimming pool, a revolving restaurant, and an observation deck.
The structural design features a concrete core enveloped in a steel mesh. The cone and lattice shell that house the torch rest atop this structure. The core supports the clusters of floors, which are all cantilevered up to 37 feet out from the core. The primary support beams extend radially from the core to steel columns on the outer edge of the structure.
The building features a swimming pool 260 feet above the ground that is cantilevered from the core and extends out 39 feet from the façade. Elliptical in the plan, the pool is supported on a substantial steel truss structure some 4 meters 13 feet deep. The plan geometry of the truss is straight from the core to the column locations, and then elliptical with approximately the same shape as the pool. The truss is connected to the core and supported on two columns that continue down through the levels below, which are supported on vertical trusses. The facade consists of energy-efficient glass skin and helps efficiently maintain comfortable temperature levels in the desert climate
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