Check out these monsters:
Burj Dubai
- The Height of Burj Dubai is being kept private, and will not be told until it is complete. According to the developers, it will be the tallest building on earth. However at the end of June 2006 a height of 2650ft (807.7m) has been made public by some of the firms involved in this project.
- When anounced in early 2003, the Burj Dubai's design was the same as the 560 meter Melbourne Grollo Tower design. However, in May 2003 a new design by SOM was released.
- An observation deck will be located on the 124th floor
- Scheduled to be opened on 30th December 2008
- Will have the fastest elevators in the world with a speed of 700m/min (42.3 kmh / 26.1 mph)
- Work on the foundations started in January 2004.
http://www.burjdubai.com/
And if you think that's tall, check out the one being built right down the way:
Al Burj
To date very little has been revealed about the exact design but Nakheel keeps stressing that it will become one of the tallest towers in the world and become a new icon for Dubai.
The original design conceived by Pei Partnership Architects was to have 631,000 m² (6,792,000 sq ft) of floorspace taken up by ultra-luxury apartments, restaurants, a large health club, and an observation deck. The building actually consists of three separate towers built around a hollow interior and joined together by several sky bridges that function as sky lobbies. Above each sky bridge is a sky garden. One of the towers is shorter than the other two and has a large outdoor pool on the roof while the other two are topped with large spires.
In the latest redesigns the basic shape has remained the same, three towers connected by sky bridges with two twin spires and one tower shorter than the others. What has changed is the number of sky bridges: the original design showed only 4, but later renderings show 6, while an even more recent one suggests this has been increased again to about 9 or 10. The building is also to be mixed-use rather than wholly residential.
There appears to be a new architect on the project, with Woods Bagot replacing Pei Partnership. This was indicated by an August 10 article in MEED.com which does not mention Pei but refers to Woods Bagot as one of the consultants on the project.[1]
Height
According to officials at Al Nakheel, the tower was originally designed to be at least 700 m (2,297 ft) tall and have more than 160 floors, but no specific figures have been disclosed. This is very much the same strategy as that employed by Emaar with the Burj Dubai which, currently under construction, is now the worlds tallest structure and is on its way in becoming the world's tallest building ever built, upon completion. The secrecy behind Al Burj's height originally suggested that it will also try to compete for this title and rumours even suggest it will break the 1,000 m (3,281 ft) mark. There is indeed evidence from the latest renditions that height increases have been made. One of these renders even shows the tower with more than 200 floors. The 16 March 2007 article by Construction UAE referenced above states that the tower will indeed begin construction later this year and that it will be 1,200 m (3,937 ft) tall.
Burj Dubai
- The Height of Burj Dubai is being kept private, and will not be told until it is complete. According to the developers, it will be the tallest building on earth. However at the end of June 2006 a height of 2650ft (807.7m) has been made public by some of the firms involved in this project.
- When anounced in early 2003, the Burj Dubai's design was the same as the 560 meter Melbourne Grollo Tower design. However, in May 2003 a new design by SOM was released.
- An observation deck will be located on the 124th floor
- Scheduled to be opened on 30th December 2008
- Will have the fastest elevators in the world with a speed of 700m/min (42.3 kmh / 26.1 mph)
- Work on the foundations started in January 2004.
http://www.burjdubai.com/
And if you think that's tall, check out the one being built right down the way:
Al Burj
To date very little has been revealed about the exact design but Nakheel keeps stressing that it will become one of the tallest towers in the world and become a new icon for Dubai.
The original design conceived by Pei Partnership Architects was to have 631,000 m² (6,792,000 sq ft) of floorspace taken up by ultra-luxury apartments, restaurants, a large health club, and an observation deck. The building actually consists of three separate towers built around a hollow interior and joined together by several sky bridges that function as sky lobbies. Above each sky bridge is a sky garden. One of the towers is shorter than the other two and has a large outdoor pool on the roof while the other two are topped with large spires.
In the latest redesigns the basic shape has remained the same, three towers connected by sky bridges with two twin spires and one tower shorter than the others. What has changed is the number of sky bridges: the original design showed only 4, but later renderings show 6, while an even more recent one suggests this has been increased again to about 9 or 10. The building is also to be mixed-use rather than wholly residential.
There appears to be a new architect on the project, with Woods Bagot replacing Pei Partnership. This was indicated by an August 10 article in MEED.com which does not mention Pei but refers to Woods Bagot as one of the consultants on the project.[1]
Height
According to officials at Al Nakheel, the tower was originally designed to be at least 700 m (2,297 ft) tall and have more than 160 floors, but no specific figures have been disclosed. This is very much the same strategy as that employed by Emaar with the Burj Dubai which, currently under construction, is now the worlds tallest structure and is on its way in becoming the world's tallest building ever built, upon completion. The secrecy behind Al Burj's height originally suggested that it will also try to compete for this title and rumours even suggest it will break the 1,000 m (3,281 ft) mark. There is indeed evidence from the latest renditions that height increases have been made. One of these renders even shows the tower with more than 200 floors. The 16 March 2007 article by Construction UAE referenced above states that the tower will indeed begin construction later this year and that it will be 1,200 m (3,937 ft) tall.
