Burj al Arab Hotel Dubai World’s Tallest Free-standing Structure
The title says it all, Burj Dubai Tower (Wikipedia) is now the world’s tallest tower and is about to be completed by the end of this year. One can’t help but wonder where did the inspiration came from? and people loves to call iconic buildings such as ‘The Sail – Burj Al Arab” and “Bird Nest – Beijing Stadium” by its nickname.
Image Copyright: David Hobcote | Source: Gizmodo
The city appears to be dusty…
Image Copyright: David Hobcote | Source: Gizmodo
I’m not interested in the technical knowhow, the concept or the overall height of the tower, I find the sarcastic jokes very interesting, here goes:
- I’m just waiting for the first suicide attempt from the observation deck. He burns up in the atmosphere, and incinerates before he even touches the ground! The best part is, he doesn’t even need to clean up his mess!
- Doesn’t get more phallic than this.
- Thunder! Thunder! Thunder Cats!
- And it works just like a regular crane. 2,000 some odd feet really isn’t that far of a lift. Granted you have to deal with weather conditions, but it’s not as ludicrous as it would appear.
- I’ll bet a high level exec leaving his car at ground level probably takes longer to get to his office than it takes me to leave my house, drive to work, and get to my Office cubicle.
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With their new found wealth due to the sudden spike in petrol price, plans for a mile-high tower in Saudi Arabia have been unveiled by billionaire Price Alwalid bin Talal. For the moment, the proposed Jeddah’s Mile-High Tower is twice as high as Burj Dubai on the drawing board.
Towers, don’t you just hate them? They’re an eye-sore! Food for thought: The Arabic meaning for the word Burj is “tower”, which gives Burj Dubai a meaning of “Dubai Tower” or “Tower of Dubai”.
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Burj al Arab – World’s Largest Christian Cross
This is probably an outdated news and it is all over the internet, anyway, Burj al Arab was designed by Tom Wright of WS Atkins PLC, during the designing stage, the world was told that it was built to resemble a sail, but critics are claiming that Wright designed the cross after he had a dream to have a Christian influence in a Muslim country.
Some locals claim that this was an intentional move on the part of the British architects. This issue is more ironic when one considers that the Tower of the Arabs is widely considered to be Dubai’s most important landmark. A Conspiracy indeed, but no words yet from the architect himself. The real question is, does it matter if it looks like a cross?
In the year 2001, Dubai introduced the 4th series number plate. It has the Burj al Arab symbol, due to conspiracy theories and controversies surrounding Burj Al Arab’s resemblance to the Christian cross, the Burj Al Arab symbol was removed without any explanation in the year 2004.
An interesting story is told back to back which says that apparently any cars registered in Dubai, that have one of the older license plates which have an image of the Burj Al Arab on them, aren’t allowed to drive into Saudi Arabia.
Coming from a country that the official religion is Islam, I find it hard to digest the fact that Malaysian of other faith such as Buddhist, Christian, Hindus and others are not allowed (unofficially) to built any religious structure or building that exceed the height of any mosque in their respective towns, except for a few temples and churches like the Batu Caves temple and Kek Loh Si temple. It is not a written law, don’t believe me? Ask any senior draftsperson or architects.
Bias it may be but when the British disapproved the Mega-Mosque in London, the British Muslim was pissed, the mega mosque is believed to be so huge that it will dwarf many of Britain’s Christian cathedrals.
Councilor Craig, who lives in a city with 300 mosques and 500 madrassahs, suggests that Britain not allow any more mosques until Muslims allow churches in Saudi Arabia. Craig said, “Why should the Saudis pay for a mosque in the UK when there is not one single church, temple, goodwara, synagogue in Saudi at all?” – CBN
What goes around comes around, and if you need to look for a guilty then you only need to look into a mirror. After all, Burj al Arab is on Muslim soil, some minor renovation can be done to rectify this whole Christian cross issue, now, the real question is why don’t they do it? What say you?
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Perpettualy Daily
CBN – Mega Mosque
Europe’s Largest Mosque
Wikipedia – Burj al Arab
Cross fire in Dubai
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