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- Dec 17, 202390% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Surat Diamond Bourse Becomes the World's Biggest Office
- The Surat Diamond Bourse in DREAM City, Surat, Gujarat, designed by Morphogenesis, was declared the world's largest office building, surpassing the Pentagon, by Guinness World Records on 22 August 2023[2]
- It was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in December 2023 after a delay from the planned November; it has about 660,000 sq m (over 7 million sq ft) of floor space and cost about ₹3,200 crore (US$330 million)[2][3]
- Nine interconnected 15-storey towers hold about 4,200 offices, with 131 elevators, nine courtyard gardens and parking for cars and 10,000 two-wheelers[2][3]
- Surat cuts and polishes about 90 percent of the world's diamonds, and full occupancy was guaranteed before construction; merchants previously travelled 200+ km to Mumbai to trade[3]
- Construction began in 2017 (foundation stone 2015) and took thousands of workers about four and a half years; during covid materials were sourced within 500 km and a glazing factory was built on site[2][3]
- Traders' reception was reported as lukewarm because of the outskirts location and poor connectivity compared with Mumbai's bourse[2]
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- [1]90%youtube.com/watch?v=lOJO1osi9poyoutube.com· Posted Sep 15, 2026· Starts Dec 17, 2023 ✓· 59% of score
Happened as dated: Wikipedia[2] gives the inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as 17 December 2023, after a delay from the planned November; Guinness World Records had declared it the world's largest office building on 22 August 2023.
- [2]82%Surat Diamond Bourse – Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org· Published Jun 1, 2026· 39% of score
Wikipedia states the Surat Diamond Bourse was 'officially declared as the world's largest office building... by the Guinness World Records on 22 August 2023' - about four months earlier than the pin's stored 15 December 2023 date, a discrepancy the pin's own video source (which cites 'December 2023') does not resolve.
- [3]74%How (and Why) India Built the World's Biggest Office – The B1Mtheb1m.com· Published Jan 10, 2024· 1% of score
The B1M's own reporting states the Surat Diamond Bourse 'acquired the title of world's largest office building in December 2023, taking it from the Pentagon' - matching the pin's stored 15 December 2023 date, even though Wikipedia's[2] own account dates the Guinness declaration to August 2023.
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