Etihad Towers is a complex of buildings with five towers in

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, the capital city of the

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The towers are located opposite the

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hotel and feature offices, apartments and a hotel. The estimated cost for the construction was 2.5 billion

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. Towers 2 and 5 topped out in November 2010. A year later, in November 2011, the Jumeirah at Etihad Towers Hotel which belongs to

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was opened in Tower 1. Tori No Su Japanese restaurant opened within the hotel in 2012. The hotel has been rebranded to
Conrad Abu Dhabi Etihad Towers
' which opened doors in Tower 1 on October 1, 2020. The adjacent Tower 2 is (as of January 2023) the fourth tallest in Abu Dhabi. Tower 2 has an observation deck named "Observation Deck at 300" on the 75th floor which is accessible from the hotel via a lower level linking podium. The towers were used as a filming location for the 2015 film ''

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''. In the film,

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(

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) and Brian O'Conner (

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) steal a

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and drive it through three of the towers.

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* Tower 1: 69 floors, * Tower 2: 74 floors, * Tower 3: 54 floors, * Tower 4: 61 floors, * Tower 5: 55 floors,

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''ProTenders profile''

''Etihadtowers.com''

''Etihadtowers.net''
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