For 80 Years,

the Pentagon held the title of the world’s largest building,

but it has now lost its crown, the Surat Diamond Bourse is a massive diamond-cutting and trading hub, that exceeds the Pentagon’s area of 66,73,624 sqft by almost 55,000 sqft.

the 15-story complex covers more than 35 acres of land on the outskirts of Surat, in India’s Gujarat state and features over 4,700 office spaces and workshops, as well as 131 large elevators that make traveling between the nine buildings of the Surat Diamond Bourse a walk in the park,

interestingly there was never an attempt to go bigger than the Pentagon, it was just the that the Indian architecture firm Morphogenesis just struggled to meet the huge demand for space, “We decided to create something that is iconic, that borrows … from its context and the community we are working (with),” Morphogenesis co-founder  Sonali Rastogi said, adding that its plan for the building was “based on environmental and sustainable design more than a particular architectural language.” the Surat Diamond Bourse is set to become the world’s largest and most advanced hub for the international diamond and jewellery trade, as it happens 90% of the world’s diamonds are cut in Surat, the complex can accommodate over 65,000 people as well as 4,500 cars and 10,000 two-wheel vehicles, by contrast, Beckenham where we live, is the third largest town within the borough, with a catchment area encompassing a population of approximately 45,000, 20,000 less that the working population of Surat Diamond Bourse which I find amazing.