India will now have the world’s largest office building, surpassing the US Defense Ministry Pentagon.
For 80 years the Pentagon was the largest office building in the world.
That title has now been taken by a building being built in Surat, Gujarat, which will house a diamond trading centre.
Surat is known as the gem capital of the world where 90 percent of the world’s diamonds are cut.
More than 65000 diamond professionals will be able to work together in the newly created Surat Diamond Bourse.
The 15-storey building is spread over 35 acres of land and consists of nine rectangular structures. Which are connected to each other from a center.
According to the company that constructed this grand building, it has more than 7.1 million square feet of floor space. The construction of the building is completed in four years.
