File includes 38 drawings: (25 plans, 5 sections, 4 elevations, 2 exterior perspectives, 2 details: glazing.) and 7 photographs (3 prints of model, 4 contact sheets with 47 images total. The Investment Authority site lies directly opposite a series of broad gardens and is very prominent in its visibility. As such the project was to be a significant contributor to the urban design of the city, and the building's proportions and its relationship to the street were important criteria. The design for the new headquarters for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority was prepared in 1978 in response to an International Invited Design Competition. The site for this project was on the Abu Dhabi "Corniche" albeit at that time in its infancy. The Corniche today is a splendid 10 km Avenue of high quality development and lush tropical gardens with lovely promenades along the sea front. In order to provide a distinctive column-free "banking hall" it was decided to suspend the building from its core walls and columns. This allowed the ground floor to be completely column free and facilitated the design of interior/exterior relationships between the banking hall and the site landscaping. A raised banking hall provided a podium housing below grade parking and improved views to the sea across the Corniche. The structural effect of the building coupled with the tall slender proportions of the glazing created a sense of lightness and gracefulness particularly important to this owner.

File consists of architectural drawings for commercial parking garage (addition: 7th and 8th floors; brick; concrete frame), including:
3 working drawings: floor plans, roof plan, elevations
7 detail drawings: brickwork, arches, ironwork, sills, roof house, chimney stack and cope, store room
2 shop drawings: windows
5 consultant drawings: floor plans, roof plan, brackets

File consists of architectural drawings for factory (addition: top floor; brick; steel frame), including:
2 development drawings: floor plans, roof plan, elevation, section
1 working drawing: floor plans, elevations, section
1 detail drawing; windows, roof cornice

Retail store (addition: basement, 2 floors, mezzanine); brick; wall bearing.
5 working drawings: floor plans, elevation, section
6 detail drawings: ground plan, elevation, stairs, windows, lavatory, hoist

File consists of architectural drawings for commercial parking garage (addition: studio apartments; roughcast; steel frame), including:
5 measured drawings: floor plan, roof plan, structural plan, elevation, section
2 development drawings: floor plan, roof plan, structural plan
10 working drawings: floor plan, elevations, sections, mechanical plans
9 consultant drawings: floor plans, roof ramp, structure

File consists of architectural drawings for commercial factory (addition: 2 floors; brick; wall bearing), including:
3 survey drawings: plan of Lachine Canal, site plan, street plan
5 development drawings: floor plans, roof plan, elevations, sections
6 working drawings: floor plans, roof plan, elevations, sections

File consists of working drawing (floor plans, elevations, sections) for factory (addition to third floor, storeroom and stairwell; brick; composite).

File consists of working drawings of floor plans and elevation of garage (addition to penthouse to elevator; galvanized iron; wall bearing).

File consists of architectural drawings for retail store (addition: building in Birks Lane), including:
28 detail drawings: floor plans, elevation, wall construction, foundations, windows, stairs, sills, cope, trim, sash, ramp, door frames, partition, woodwork (including window, panels), plaster cornices
14 shop drawings: door, skylight, hangers, expansion shields, floor plan, elevation, parcel box, stair, railing
6 consultant drawings: floor plan, structure

File consists of architectural drawings for office building and factory (addition: tenth floor; brick and stone), including:
1 survey drawing: property plan
11 measured drawing: floor plans
2 sketch drawings: roof coping, soffit of beam
1 development drawing: wall face
37 detail drawings: floor plan, elevations, section, stonework (including window bays, entrance doorway and door, haunch stones to window, tower, arch), windows, lintel, iron staircase, eaves, doors, picture moulding, trims, baseboard and door stops, lighting, corridor layout, copings, cornice
18 shop drawings: stairs, structure, elevator shaft, roof plan, floor plan, stonework, corridor layout, fire escape, sash layout, door buckets
2 record drawings: floor plans