The most impressive feature of the new Bahrain World Trade Centre is, no doubt, the three massive wind turbines situated between the two towers comprising the main building. Each of these 80-foot turbines projects from a bridge between towers. The shape of the towers themselves channels and accelerates air moving between them which will help the building generate even more power. It is by far the largest wind-powered design incorporated into a massive building project to date.
Unfortunately when this building was constructed the wind turbines were left out. It was felt that there would be sub frequency harmonics produced by the rotating blades that would effect the occupants. We can personally verify this claim as we lived near a wind turbine farm and could hear very low frequency humming at night, load enough to wake us from our sleep. Shame it was an interesting idea that would have place Bahrain high in the global sustainable architectural rankings.
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