Bahrain World Trade Center

The Bahrain World Trade Center stands in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, completed in 2008 to a design by the British firm Atkins. Its twin sail-shaped towers, tapering as they rise, are linked by three horizontal sky-bridges, each mounting a large wind turbine roughly 29 meters in diameter, making the complex one of the first tall buildings in the world designed from the outset to generate a meaningful share of its own electricity from integrated wind power. The towers' aerodynamic, elliptical cross-section was engineered specifically to accelerate and funnel the near-constant onshore breeze from the Persian Gulf directly through the turbines mounted on the connecting bridges, rather than simply cladding a conventional tower with an incidental turbine. Since completion the three turbines have periodically been taken offline for maintenance, and independent assessments have found their real-world power output well below the complex's original projections, though the building remains widely cited as an early example of large-scale wind power built directly into a skyscraper's structure.

The Bahrain World Trade Center is a 240-metre-high (787 ft), 50-floor, twin tower complex located in Manama, Bahrain. Designed by the multi-national architectural firm Atkins, construction on the towers was completed in 2008. It is the first skyscraper in the world to integrate wind turbines into its design. The wind turbines were developed, built and installed by the Danish company Norwin A/S. Th

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240 m / 787 ft