Burj Dubai tower is now world’s tallest
Its official now, the Burj Dubai is currently the world tallest building at 1,680 foot (512 meters) and it is still under construction, it is expected to be finished by the end of 2008 and its planned final height has been kept secret, I doubt any country has the money to construct something as high as the Burj Dubai in the next 30 years, not even China.
The tower cost $1 billion with a 500-acre development area worth $20 billion. Construction, which began just 1,276 days ago, has been frenzied — at times, one story rises every three days.
Is it something to be proud of for the Arabs? Pretty much like the Petronas Twin Tower in Malaysia, it was design by an American architect, building by the Koreans or the Japanese or was it both? The thing is, Malaysia has nothing to shout about, the technology known how still belongs to the Koreans, Japanese and American. If the Americans wanted to building something taller, they could have done that years ago and believe me they could easily build it all the way to the moon.
As for Burj Dubai, the architects and engineers are American and the main building contractor is South Korean. They may have reclaim the world tallest structure for the region again after Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza was overtook by Eiffel Tower in 1889.
Then again, it is a good display of man and their engineering capabilities.
Source: CNN & Burj Dubai on Wikipedia
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We knows that the world tallest building is the not-so-pleasant looking Taipei 101 at 509m, and the would be tallest… I hate to say this but why Dubai? Burj Dubai projected at 800m is going to be the world’s tallest, the final height of the Burj Dubai is being kept a secret; however, figures released by a contractor on the project have suggested a height of around 808 metres, but I believe it could be somewhere around 820m.
The concept?
The design of Burj Dubai derived from the patterning systems embodied in Islamic architecture, with the triple-lobed footprint of the building based on an abstracted desert flower native to the region, which is non other than The Hymenocallis.
The footprint of Burj Dubai, image source: Wikipedia
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, children of all ages – The world tallest building at 2000m is MrWong’s Soup’s Apartments. Yes, it is at 2000m, eat your heart out Dubai! Well, it is some sort of urbanism and architecture project, am not really sure but it could be that each student are given a slot and they have to come up with some sort of design.
There you go, click here – Mr.Wong’s Soup Apartment for the full image, you need a broadband and an oxygen tank – just in case you faint.
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