Burj Dubai

[myshtern]

I'm not sure who else into urban environments, but it's been occupying pretty much all of my time. I love skyscrapers and everything involved in the construction process. The worlds tallest building (by a lot) will soon top out. Right now concrete work is being completed and the steel framing will begin soon.

Dubai is undertaking incredible achievements. It's probably the only arab state I appreciate past its antisemitism. Keep in mind, this is in the middle of the desert.

Height: 808m (2650ft)
Floors: 162
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Developer: EMAAR Properties
General Contractor: Samsung Construction Company

Here is the initial city rendering:
http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/2005/renders/dubai.jpg


Here is how it got started:
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Here is what it looks like today:
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[myshtern]

Just so everyone understand the size of this building - the tallest building in Denver is Republic Plaza building at 714'. If you were to stand the Republic Plaza on end 3 times, it would still be 508' short of the tip of the spire on this building. The roof will be at 2034' meaning it's just under 3x taller than the tallest building in Denver.

[BlueFang08]

I had a friend in college who was from dubai and its insane how much money that people who live their have.

[chibianh]

You would think it's from oil, but the Today show had a thing about Dubai recently and I think they mentioned that only 8% of the money coming into Dubai was from oil.. the rest is from tourism and business investments.

[BlueFang08]

Well they know that their oil supply will not last forever. This is why they are trying to make themselves the financial capital of the middle east, which thus far they are doing a damn good job at.

[Brian]

I plan on heading there sometime soon. Pretty amazing what has been done there.

[Seved]

Good ol' India labor

[Brandon]

According to the rendering they have an airport right next door. Hopefully they don't piss of the taliban

[Bedlam]

I plan on heading there sometime soon. Pretty amazing what has been done there.

Yeah! The pollution makes it look nice and shitty just like LA! Way to go! :)

[john]

I had a couple of job offers in the area, but being that I'm married with kids/mortgage/etc, it wouldn't be a wise thing. If I were unattached, however, I'd be in the middle east. :)

[Brandon]

:werd:

I applied for an contracting engineering job i found on CL but I lacked the military training req'd. It was a lot of tax free money.

[HondaPower]

Looks good.

[myshtern]

Yeah! The pollution makes it look nice and shitty just like LA! Way to go! :)
That's not so much pollution as it is dust clouds from the sand.

[Nate]

That's not so much pollution as it is dust clouds from the sand.

It's from the drifters when they get a little onto the edge of the road.

[Brian]

Yeah! The pollution makes it look nice and shitty just like LA! Way to go! :)

ok? It's the desert, there are dust storms. It's really not a high pollution city.

[myshtern]

nucking futs

http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/2007/11November/burj_dubai-skyscraper2933.jpg

[Minotaur]

One of my former roomates spent the summer working on the HVAC in that building as an engineer (she's from there)..

[john]

Is she hot? :D :D

[jackmode9316]

Isnt this the one with a fucking indoor ski slops and a damn tennis court at the top of that bitch? I will try to find the E-mail with pics later if I have the time.

EDIT:
Im thinking of the one that looks like a boat sail in the 4th pic down.

[Minotaur]

Is she hot? :D :D For an Indian girl, she's gorgeous...

But anyone who can put up w/ her is a saint!

[Kickass_d16z6]

its gonna suck if that thing ever falls over

[Brandon]

or if a plane hits it

[Kickass_d16z6]

pfft - like anybody in the middle east would ever do that

[aznasinine]

^^^ to someone in the middle east

[lswhitecivic]

Isnt this the one with a fucking indoor ski slops and a damn tennis court at the top of that bitch? I will try to find the E-mail with pics later if I have the time.

EDIT:
Im thinking of the one that looks like a boat sail in the 4th pic down.

I don't think that is Ski Dubai.

http://http://www.skidubai.com/ski-dubai/resort/

The resort pics on the website don't look anything like that.

[Martian]

Ski Dubai is a seperate facility

[Moe]

Cant wait to go back and visit, I wish had pictures of the view from my parents place in Abudhabi.

[myshtern]

Concrete construction has topped out, it's too tall to pump. Steel construction is beginning:
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http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/2007/12December/Burj_Dubai-120802.jpg

[Terry]

Retracted last comment

[myshtern]

Glad to see our gas prices are going to something usefull.

What?

[Terry]

I retract my last comment

[J.Dub]

How tall is that damn thing?

[Terry]

Also known as: Tower of Dubai
Built: 2004-2009
Cost: US$900,000,000.00
Designed by: Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill
Type: Skyscraper
Stories: 189
Maximum height: 2683 feet / 818 meters
Location: No. 1, Burj Dubai Boulevard, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

[myshtern]

The cost is far higher

[guessinthe2000]

friends of mine went there when they were stationed in Kuwait

[myshtern]

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[myshtern]

Look at the number of cranes
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[myshtern]

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[hrcDSM719]

Man, those are some cool pisctures of a cool building. When is it supposed to be completed?

[myshtern]

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[Conrad]

Fawk working up on top of that!

[yapann]

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this pic got buy-in of me

[Foxy]

I was over there for a while, and it's absolutely insane seeing all of the money and construction work going on. I don't envy the construction workers toiling away in the heat, though.

If you want to make a killing, sell those orange blinky light traffic barriers.. they seemed to be everywhere; every road was under construction or blocked off for construction workers building things alongside the road. Just crazy how much activity there was going on over there.

[yapann]

I don't envy the construction workers toiling away in the heatmust be a challenge - like one foot in a cosmic space, and probably not for free :)
I guess it's not as hot as at the gorund

[way2slow]

I KNOW YOU WOULDNT CATCH MY SKINNY WHITE BUTT OVER THERE!!

[myshtern]

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[Zach]

Man its going to be crazy when all that construction is done.

[-=[Juztin]=-]

i bet that thing sways like a mofo!

[schmidlkofer]

wow is all i can say. now i wanna go just to see the construction of this thing.

[myshtern]

=-;850992']i bet that thing sways like a mofo!

I think they're going to have some very, very, very sophisticated dampening systems

[Brandon]

dampening systems? I don't see how keeping the thing moist is going to help with the swaying.


:D

[stu]

Hahaha

[white06wrxlmtd]

nice pics.

[myshtern]

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[myshtern]

A British base jumper is being fined a little over $5k for jumping off the 150 floor (the first person to jump off the tower).

There is another tower that is beginning excavation very soon if it hasnt already begun in western Saudi Arabia that will surpass the Burj Dubai:
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/4701/compairqu3.jpg


This picture was supposedly taken from one of the highers floors on the Burj Dubai:
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[-=[Juztin]=-]

that looks straight out of star wars on that one planet, shit....

[velocity]

thats badass

[h22atch]

OH REALLY

[h22atch]

FA SHO

[jackmode9316]

FA SHO

Calling all mods, we have a n00b post whore.

[myshtern]

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[yapann]

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oh heaven...

[myshtern]

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[myshtern]

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Besides work on the space station, the crane operators are working higher than any man in history.

[Brandon]

It's a staircase of rickety wooden scaffolding. o_0

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[sirtef9]

They had Donald Trump on Howard Stern Thursday, He said that all these properties were selling like hot cakes, Must be nice

[myshtern]

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It must take the construction crew an incredibly long time to get to the top of the building

[Conrad]

Guess they dont have to worry about someone flying into it...lol

[myshtern]

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