Telenor Head Office

Project Snapshot

Type: Commercial
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
Year Completed: 2017

Architect: Arcop (Pvt) Ltd.
Size: 400,000 sqft Interior 600,000 sqft on 15 Acre Site

Technical Details

Total project area: approximately 600,000 square feet (55,742 square meters)
Designed low tech SIREWALL delivery protocols based on availability of abundant manual labour
Perimeter wall dimensions: 2-feet (0.6m) by 10-feet (3m) by approximately 0.47 miles (750m)
Tower walls thickness: 3-feet
Tower height: 100-feet
World’s tallest load-bearing rammed earth structure

Lead Architects: Yawar Jilani & Mahboob Khan
Project Architect: Abdullah Omar Asghar Khan

Communication tower is 100’ tall. Stair towers are 60’. Walls are 52’

Project Features

Communications tower sets a new record for the world’s tallest rammed earth structure at 100 feet (we broke our own previous record set by the 51-foot tall Brinton Museum).