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- johndi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Bring a parachute and a nice big hammer in case of fire.
- ggko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Not only are thousands of panicked people parachuting out at the same time...
...they're also holding hammers. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Or...maybe they DID get a good architect and your questions are answered by the design of that tower. Perhaps the design if the most efficient shape, etc. to handle the winds, and other extremes. Perhaps...just perhaps...the guy who designed it knows a little more about designing a 3000+ foot building that YOU do.
- Sighanide, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20This is cool, but pales in comparison to the Sky City proposed to be build in Tokyo.
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/skycity/interactive/interactive.html - darkgmr, on 10/29/2007, -1/+18Reminds me a lot more of the citadel from Half-Life 2 rather than that, but I'm a gamer.
- CaptRR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Actually you are exactly right, and that is why they are doing all this. I think I read somewhere that estimates are that the UAE, due to its small size will probably run out of oil first, that is why Dubai is going through a crash building program right now, mainly targeting tourism (google The Palm Islands) in hopes that it can keep the area rolling in the dough once the oil begins to fall off.
- WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Yeah, I wouldn't expect any problems at all with tens of thousands of panicked lunatics all jumping out of a kilometer-high tower at the same time, with a bunch of parachutes all over the place...
What they need is an automated ejection pod system with their own parachutes, to be able to coordinate the launches. - cadavreexquis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Wow. Anyone else find UAE's opulence a bit... Babylonian? Isn't their economy essentially screwed once their oil fields run dry?
- headphonist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Actually revenues from oil account for only 6% of Dubai's gross domestic product.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai - anund, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Dubai isn't a country, it's part of the United Arab Emirate
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ae.html - Acill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Being in the US Navy I have pulled into Dubai countless times. I have to say its one of my favorite places to visit when we are in the Arabian Gulf. Its a very modern and clean city for where its at.
- onishenko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The difference is that Sky City is a "proposed and who knows if it will ever get built" project. This is already under construction. This WILL be the world's tallest when complete in 3 years.
- onishenko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8yes, a "better" part of the world. I see your broad experience and worldview coming through those comments. Take a trip there, it isn't as bad as FOX News makes it out to be.
- Poppso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I second this, I love this place every time we pull in here I have a blast. So much stuff to do, very modern and the some of the best looking women in the world. I can see now why they try to cover up thier women in those outfits.
You see some pretty strange sights there when it comes to new meeting old. At the mall you can see girls completly covered in traditional dress (you can only see thier eyes) walking literly hand in hand with girls in mini skirts and tube tops. Pretty crazy stuff. - pillfred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7That is infact why Dubi at least is doing all this. They know the oil is running out so they are trying to boost their tuourist economy. That's why their doing all that crazy *****. And no doubt because they can.
There is also some special on the discover channel or some ***** that is about that ski hill, and some funky palm tree island. - kozie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10200hundred or so years to go... give or take a week...
- spamzor, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Why do I get the feeling that all the entire arab nations are lead by princes who spend thier great wealths generated from oil on pointless buildings instead of reinvesting into thier own economies and really they will just run dry of oil, the west will no longer care and no longer send money thier way and they will go back to thier old poor ways?
I'm so glad I don't live there - blobzorz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12"The Towering Inferno" anyone?
- sourcemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"It's a 3rd world country over there for a reason."
omg mkearl you're such an idiot! - neozeed, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9The one the workers rioted over after having no union, and living in squalor right? The one where they treat forigners as non people? Yeah thats what I thought.
I have to go fill my tank now, and contribute to this silly stairway to heaven. - Justice101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7No, they are building all of these new atractions, such as the Dubai space port and the Dubai Island, Dubai Land, and Dubai Amer, along with a huge under water hotel so that they can have a huge tourest industry to overcome there oil fields running dry. Strange when the number 1 vacations spot will be within walking distance of a war zone. R and R will be very fun apparantly :)
- nroose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Hello?
They are not just building buildings. They are investing in other businesses, and are notably investing lots of money in other countries, including the US and around the EU. There was a bunch of stuff about this in a recent issue of Business Week.
Plus, until the world rebuilds it's infrastructure, as oil gets more scarce, they will get richer, not poorer. - ComputerGuru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Monaco
- daemonx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I've been in dubai for some time,my wife worked as an architect there...maybe things will go fine for now,but there are things which Dubai is lacking or unprepared..they dont have a Mass Rapid Transit system like trains..Congestion is so bad it could u take u 3 hours to travel 15Km's.i think hey are near to a major fault line which is somewhere in Iran.so earthquakes and a KM tall building dont go very well.The PALM and the WORLD is an environmental disaster.
what i think is,after few years or maybe decades,they could collapse or something catastrophic could happen.. - dpk87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I fail to understand your comment. It neither makes sense nor is it funny. What are you talking about?
- shultzy055, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Half-life 2 Citadel if you ask me!
- calabria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5here we go
http://www.digg.com/design/Amazing_Buildings_in_Dubai
thats what i call fascinating - xodex, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6That would be a kick ass sight to see.
- SeanMoney, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Dubai may be located in the middle east but they have quite an impressive looking city, that is obviously going to be even better in time.
- Backlash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think the top 100 floors would be nauseating... I don't have a problem with heights but looking down to see the tops of other skyscrapers would be freaky
- sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4actually it's not a third world country, you ignoramus.
- Trigeno, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9dude, how incredibly naive, and juvinile of you to say. dubai hates terrorists just as much as any other civilized country. when will bigotry, paranoia, and prejudice wane.......
- mindracer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6u know this tower makes NYC's future tower look old already, and its not even built yet
- JohntB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I get the feeling that tourism will not be an effective way of supporting an entire nation that has few natural resources, but I may be wrong. Are there any other nations that are supported completely and totally by tourism? Maybe they should be bringing in manufacturing or high-tech jobs, or something.
- pyrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3At 1000 metres, this is double the height of any other skyscraper in existence. For reference here are the top 10 skyscrapers out there:
Rank Name City Country Feet Meters Stories
1 Taipei 101 Taipei Taiwan 1671 509 101
2 Petronas Tower 1 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 1483 452 88
2 Petronas Tower 2 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 1483 452 88
4 Sears Tower Chicago USA 1450 442 110
5 Jin Mao Tower Shanghai China 1380 421 88
6 Citic Plaza Guangzhou China 1283 391 80
7 Shun Hing Square Shenzhen China 1260 384 69
8 Empire State Building New York USA 1250 381 102
9 Central Plaza Hong Kong China 1227 374 78
10 Bank Of China Hong Kong China 1209 369 70 - apolloae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You know what's funny...that'd be an excellent evacuation plan. Just have anyone living there take a lesson on sky diving first and voila! you have an evacuation plan in case a fire starts on the entire second floor.
- mikm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Beneath A Steel Sky, anyone?
- mikm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4No. What I am saying is that since Dubai is in the middle east, it would be much EASIER for terrorists to attack. I'm not saying that "everyone in Dubai is a terrorist".
- drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3When you build something that tall, having stay up is more important than aesthetics. This is more an engineering marvel than a design one.
Still, the inside of it is going to be all class. - calabria, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4old news, you should see some of the other things being built there. i do believe there was a previous article on digg that linked to a site with all of them.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd love to go to the observation deck of this building. I've been up the Sears Tower, Empire State Building, and the World Trade Center in New York, but nothing, and I mean nothing compares to being on the space deck of the CN Tower in Toronto. That is truly mind-blowing. On a clear day you can see Niagra Falls and Buffalo, and sometimes all the way across Lake Ontario to Rochester in New York. Although it's not the tallest building on Earth it still holds title of the World's tallest self supporting structure. The building in Dubai though will hold records for both tallest building and tallest self supporting structure. Check out http://www.emporis.com/en/bu/sk/st/tp/wo/ to compare some of the world's other tall buildings.
http://www.dpodgor.net - ComputerGuru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sears is 114 I think... The top 4 are not open to the public
- terminalpariah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sounds like the perfect opportunity to unveil the secret Extendo feature of the CN Tower! Muahahahaha!
- onishenko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They are working on a huge mass transit system. http://vgn.dm.gov.ae/DMEGOV/dm-mp-metro
- RADicalSatDude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The builders target is to go one floor per week. This news is pretty old.
- robohoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wikipedia.org has actually a picture of it during the construction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai - Yodacola, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Can someone say *Citadel*?
http://i2.tinypic.com/snl5ds.jpg
I went ahead and Photoshopped it into a Half-life 2 screenshot of the Citadel. I made it look a bit too massive, but you can get the idea. - rushad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4OMG this is such old news..
im from dubai and this is nothing compared to what else they are doing here. - OropheR, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Pity that Dubai(one of the richest place on earth) uses slaves to build their towers...
http://daivania.blogspot.com/2006/03/slaves-of-dubai.html#links - flaxx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4THANK YOU OROPHER! Every single construction I see (like that building built on a man-made island) from Dubai makes me more and more sick. I'm so unimpressed with it all. It's a big show off built on the backs of a destitute nation. They can enjoy their palace in the cool skies cuz when this fleeting life is over they'll be living in the pits of their self made hellfire.
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