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- slugpellet63, on 03/10/2009, -1/+57Was the author too lazy to give us more pics?
- mandd, on 03/10/2009, -1/+48pictures? is it really that hard? buried
- inactive, on 03/10/2009, -3/+30I was just in Dubai and it's on the rocks.
Construction has now stopped on the Burj Dubai - the tallest building in the world. It's a sight to see, but who knows if it will ever be finished now.
While driving along Jumeirah beach the place is built like Disneyland and everything looks gorgeous. Then night falls and you start to look at the lights in all those buildings and most of them are empty.
It is an awfully nice town, but now people are fleeing. If you cannot pay off your debts, they will toss you in the slammer, so a lot of people when they lose their jobs, just drive their new cars to the airport and abandon them in the parking lot with the keys in them. There are thousands of cars abandoned this way in Dubai.
Abu Dhabi - which is still swimming in oil and gas money - has agreed to bail them out. - SmilinGoat, on 03/10/2009, -0/+24buried for being so ***** old.
- Mankind121, on 03/10/2009, -0/+20***** more lame AskMen articles
- yomamaisfat, on 03/10/2009, -0/+14Pics or GTFO!
- weister42, on 03/10/2009, -0/+14I want to buy North Korea in Dubai's "The World" then constantly annoy my neighbors with flying water ballons.
- YME1280, on 03/10/2009, -1/+11I thought for sure Shanghai Financial Center would be on the list.
- glasnostic, on 03/10/2009, -0/+10what a ***** list.
- ipwnall123, on 03/10/2009, -1/+11I had the same thought. No digg just for that reason as a matter of fact...
- deddoc, on 03/10/2009, -1/+11What year was this written? 2005? There's no way the Freedom tower is going to be completed anytime this year. They haven't even finished the memorial let alone started on the building
- theblogfather, on 03/10/2009, -3/+13Leave it to Dubai to create such an Artificial World.
- trollick, on 03/10/2009, -0/+9Freedom Tower looks like something I'd design in under 1 minute.
- LBobRife, on 03/10/2009, -0/+8I'm suprised they added the ISS but not the LHC.
- chrissku, on 03/10/2009, -1/+9Dubai got big fast. They're going to fall hard.
/Economy - OasisR123, on 03/10/2009, -0/+8'...it's to be finished in 2008...' <-- ok, nice to know, I'll be waiting
- BobDle, on 03/10/2009, -5/+12Number 10
The Big Dig – Boston, Massachusetts
One of the most aggressive and intensive urban projects in North America, the Big Dig set out to remedy Boston's infamous congestion problem. The six-lane Central Artery highway had carried commuters since the 1950s, but when traffic became jammed for 10 hours a day in the '80s, city and state governments decided to completely overhaul the downtown infrastructure.
The project built two bridges, a tunnel and, most amazingly of all, it destroyed the Central Artery and built an even wider highway underground. Over 5,000 workers contributed to the Big Dig, laying the 7.5 miles and eight to 10 lanes of highway, pouring the 3.8 million cubic yards of concrete and displacing 16 million cubic yards of soil.
Trivia: The project created more than 300 acres of new parks and open areas in the Boston region.
Number 9
Queen Mary 2
The largest passenger ship ever built, the QM2 is basically a floating city. Replete with a casino, a nightclub, a spa, a wine bar, 15 restaurants and bars, a library, and even a planetarium -- this ship makes the Titanic look like a kayak. The liner, which can carry more than 2,620 passengers, took almost a year and a half to build and made its maiden voyage on January 12, 2004.
A huge ship to say the least, QM2 weighs 151,400 gross tons, generates 157,000 horsepower and cost an astounding $800 million to construct. Those interested in taking a vacation on this hulk should expect to shell out at least $1,499 for a six-day transatlantic trip.
Trivia: At 1,132 feet, the Queen Mary 2 is more than twice as long as the Washington Monument is tall, and is 147 feet longer than the Eiffel Tower.
Number 8
Beijing Airport - Beijing, China
Part of Beijing's massive infrastructure overhaul for the 2008 Olympics includes the construction of what is to be the world's biggest airport. Englishman Sir Norman Foster, who designed current world-record holder Hong Kong International Airport, submitted plans for this new gateway to China's capital in late 2003, and plans continued to develop throughout 2004.
The Chinese government has toyed with the idea of scaling back the grandiose project, which is set to take three years to complete, in an effort to quell its image as a showboat. But if Lord Foster has anything to say about it, this $2 billion airport will be a real humdinger.
Trivia: The proposed roof of the airport covers an amazing 80 acres.
The world's highest bridge, an amazing construction project in the sea, and more
Number 7
Millau Viaduct - Millau, France
The same man behind the construction of Beijing's new airport put his mark on France as well, designing what is now the world's tallest bridge. Spanning the Tarn River in southern France, the Millau Viaduct's seven pillars burst from the gorge below. At its highest, the bridge reaches 1,122 feet, which is 53 feet higher than the Eiffel Tower. The bridge is approximately 1.6 miles long.
The Viaduct took three and a half years to complete, is part of the A75 route that links northern Europe to the Mediterranean, and opened with much fanfare on December 14, 2004. It cost $523 million, used two billion tons of concrete and metal, and thankfully comes with a 120-year guarantee.
Trivia: The Millau Bridge is so large it can be seen from space.
Number 6
Freedom Tower - New York City
After considering several bids, the New York government agreed on a compromise between two world-renowned architects' plans to rebuild the World Trade Center site. Daniel Libeskind and David Childs designed Freedom Tower, a 1,776-foot skyscraper whose height commemorates the year of American independence.
Beginning construction on April 27, 2006, the immense structure will have 73 stories: the first 70 will be used for office space and the top three for restaurants and an observation deck. Estimated to cost $12 billion and to be completed by 2009, Freedom Tower and its 276-foot spire will surpass Taipei Tower, currently the world's tallest building.
Trivia: A cable suspension structure supporting Freedom Tower will hold wind turbines, which will provide 20% of the building's energy needs.
Number 5
The World - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Truly a mind-boggling project, Nakheel Developments thought outside the box for its latest large-scale development in Dubai. Two and a half miles offshore from the booming Middle Eastern city is a slew of manmade islands that don't look like much yet, as construction only started in September 2003.
However, if you look down on the project from the sky when it's completed in 2008, you'll see a replica of the Earth laid out in the sea. Made of 300 islands of various sizes, the $3 billion project recreates the world map and offers business and residential buyers entire islands, which range from $6.85 million to $36 million. Malls, office buildings, mansions, and parks will adorn the islands, which will be 50 meters to 100 meters apart and will cover a total of 5.6 miles.
Trivia: Rod Stewart is apparently looking into purchasing the United Kingdom property for a cool $33.4 million.
Number 4
Hangzhou Bay Bridge - Cixi and Jiaxing, China
Most bridges cross rivers and lakes; there aren't too many that cross a whole sea. Hangzhou Bay Bridge is a 22.5-mile crossing that will connect the cities of Cixi and Jiaxing, in Zhejiang province in eastern China.
Connecting previously remote cities on China's economically-prosperous east coast, the six-lane S-shaped bridge will rank as the world's longest sea-crossing span. The cost of the bridge, set to be completed in 2008, topped $1.42 billion.
Trivia: The Hangzhou Bay Bridge is so long that the contractors built a service island in the middle, where commuters can stop for food and gas.
Number 3
Burj Dubai - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
As Dubai sets out to become a world-leading business hub, it is building an infrastructure beyond compare. Burj Dubai will smash records as the world's tallest structure: at 2,650 feet, it is 874 feet taller than New York's proposed Freedom Tower and 835 feet taller than Toronto's CN Tower.
Burj Dubai's 160 floors will have office space, residential apartments, hotels, and a huge shopping mall. Its unique three-sided structure serves to negate powerful winds at its near half-mile height and also represents a creative design that will dominate the Dubai landscape once it's completed in 2008, at a cost of $8 billion.
Trivia: To avoid swaying, the three-sided Burj Dubai is built around a core, which gets smaller and smaller as the building ascends.
Number 2
International Space Station (ISS)
Sixteen nations contributed to the decade-long effort to create a humongous floating base above Earth, considered the biggest cooperative science project in history. When the ISS is complete, over 80 flights will have been made to the station, each adding another important element to the incredible construction feat.
More than four times the size of Russia's Mir station, the ISS will weigh more than one million pounds, boast almost an acre of solar panels, and be 356-feet across and 290-feet long. Development, assembly and daily running costs are estimated to be more than $130 billion.
Trivia: The ISS hosted both the first space tourist -- Dennis Tito, who paid $20 million for the visit -- and the first space wedding, between astronaut Yuri Malenchenko and Ekaterina Dmitriev, who was in Texas.
Number 1
Three Gorges Dam - Sandouping, Yichang, China
Try to picture a structure one and a half miles wide, 600 feet tall and capable of creating a water reservoir that is 400 miles long. China's Three Gorges Dam project is a massive, 16-year undertaking that aims to halt the Yangtze River floods, which have claimed more than a million lives in the past century.
Halting the strong waters of the world's third longest river is no easy task, which explains the estimated $24.65 billion bill -- which some say could end up being three times as much -- and the almost two-decade-long effort that began in 1993. When completed, the dam's 26 generators are expected to create the equivalent power of 18 nuclear power plants. For six months of the year, 10,000-ton ships will be able to sail inland to the city of Chongqing, creating a huge business center in China's Sichuan province.
Trivia: The Three Gorges Dam project is expected to displace at least 1.2 million people. - nalguita, on 03/10/2009, -2/+7NO PICS!!! NO PICCSS!!! ***** YOU!
- FXNGLAS, on 03/10/2009, -1/+6The Freedom Tower completion is wrong. I'm right across the river and there is no way they're finishing it this year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Tower
- thirty6chambers, on 03/10/2009, -0/+5#3: really big
#2: reallllyyy big
#1: realllllllllllyyyyy big
DRAW ME A PICTURE - FreeZyp0pS, on 03/10/2009, -0/+4How impressive are they when we can't see them?
- inactive, on 03/11/2009, -0/+4I stand corrected. When I was there, it was stopped.
I am not there anymore, and it could very well have started again.
True w/regard to skyscrapers. I was in Thailand when the Asian crisis hit some years ago and hundreds of buildings all over Bangkok were eerily frozen in time - mid-construction. You could see where the money ran out. A few years later, they were all finished. The same in Manila.
With Dubai, it can be seen that many of these apartment blocks are empty most of the time. The finished ones! On a weeknight at say 8:00 p.m. most of the windows in most of the buildings are dark.
Speculators from Saudi flush with oil money would come into town and buy up 50-100 apartments at a time hoping that someone would come along and pay more, or that they would rent them at a profit. This is not materializing and will not, as the boom is over.
Dubai is still a fantastic place, but some of their Islamic rules and laws are tripping them up. The Saudis and Iranians will put up with it, as it is better than the way the Islamists run those two oppressive and irrational "Islamarchies".
Shariah Law is not for a civilized place. The Hard Rock Cafe was not able to serve you a beer when I was there... they somehow lost their license to sell alcohol. To buy a beer in a grocery store you need to go to a special place and have a license. If you get into a traffic accident and injure someone, you sit in prison for as long as they are in the hospital. If you can't pay your car loan, you go to jail. - lbcjim, on 03/10/2009, -0/+4buried for no bridge to nowhere and stretching it on 3 pages
- chadsmith729, on 03/10/2009, -0/+3No you're doing it wrong!
- inactive, on 03/11/2009, -0/+3um, what makes you think the burj has stopped construction?
It's topped out and glazing is moving at almost 2 floors a week which is about 93% done. Only something like 2700 total panels to go on the entire structure.
The interior of the building is up about halfway and is also moving at a blazing pace and its on track for a december completion.
They're also running tests on the water fountains this week which is a major portion of the entire development thats almost 100% http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJjoi9sb-JY&fmt ...
No doubt dubai has slowed down, but if you ask me, the real estates just on sale =D
Kuala lumpur 1997, chicago 1974. Same *****, different time. Welcome to the world of skyscrapers dude. - ghank, on 03/10/2009, -0/+3no pics + 3 pages = buried
- J3EBS, on 03/10/2009, -0/+3With a name I came up with after a night at an Indian buffet.
- ihatediggcom, on 03/10/2009, -0/+3as a matter a fact a bury for no pictures. this is internet, not a newspaper
- Fredo521, on 03/10/2009, -0/+3more like the "Uninspired Tower"
- Awwzm, on 03/10/2009, -0/+2...or next year or the year after that.
- CoD4, on 03/10/2009, -0/+2The Ryu hotel in north korea
oh wait - inactive, on 03/10/2009, -0/+2If they gave us more pics someone would have just made a word list from 1-10 anyways
- slugpellet63, on 03/10/2009, -0/+2who said anything about burying - if these are impressive colossal structures then images would have added lots - a picture is worth a thousand words etc etc - for all you know I might have dugg the story - in fact I did neither.
- DanBoodro, on 03/10/2009, -1/+3Boston's by far one of the worst places to drive through, especially if you have no idea where you're going.
- Suzilla, on 03/10/2009, -0/+2Old and no pics included. Buried as LAME.
- tgc1, on 03/10/2009, -0/+2No picture fail. You lose the Internets. A winner is not you. You are not over 9000.
- sicilian890, on 03/10/2009, -0/+2askmen.com is in serious need of some AJAX
- iDiggr, on 03/10/2009, -0/+2Short and sweet. I like your style, yomamaisfat. Gayest way to make a top ten list, ever.
- inactive, on 03/10/2009, -0/+2"to be completed by 2009"
RIIIIGHT... - IFEice, on 03/11/2009, -0/+1Pics or it never happened.
- Jvhowube, on 03/10/2009, -0/+1Dugg for Yara Deserbelles Gallery of the Day on the right of the page. Damn.
- brandita, on 03/11/2009, -0/+1Lots of these are already completed and therefore not construction projects.
- inactive, on 03/10/2009, -0/+1the british always try to show their "superior" construction.
too bad the biggest construction companies in europe are french.
suck on this britain. - sammyc53, on 03/11/2009, -0/+1"However, if you look down on the project from the sky when it's completed in 2008"
Um, this must be an old list - camaroz06, on 03/10/2009, -0/+1Big Dig.....all I can say is least its still standing
- bartol, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1http://www.cheapflightsservice.com/
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