When complete next year the Burj Dubai will be taller than three Canary Wharf towers
balanced on top of each other
Posted on 04/06/2008 1:15:21 PM PDT by yankeedame
Last updated at 15:21pm on 6th April 2008
It is the tallest man-made structure in the world – and it is still growing.
When complete next year the Burj Dubai will stretch half a mile into the sky over the United Arab Emirates, taller than three Canary Wharf towers balanced on top of each other.
Already 2,200ft tall, and the result of 22million man hours of labour, the Burj is the pinnacle of skyscraper engineering.
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When complete next year the Burj Dubai will be taller than three Canary Wharf towers
balanced on top of each other
This £2 billion marvel, designed by American architect Adrian Smith, is packed with technological innovations, including double-decker lifts that can carry 42 people at a record-breaking 40mph to the observation platforms, robotic window-cleaning platforms and a system of pipes to collect condensation from the windows.
It will provide about 15million gallons of water per year – equivalent to nearly 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
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The Burj will be the height of luxury. Some of the space will be used for offices but the lower
37 floors will house the world's first Armani Hotel
The water will be pumped into the site's irrigation system for use on the landscaped areas.
Because of its size – more than 6,000 miles of girders, enough to stretch a quarter of the way round the world, have gone into making its 160 floors – evacuation in a fire could be too slow.
Therefore pressurised air-conditioned refuges to allow heat or fumes to escape are situated on every 25th floor, the stairwells are fireproofed and there is a special lift for firefighting equipment.
The Burj will be the height of luxury. Some of the space will be used for offices but the lower 37 floors will house the world's first Armani Hotel.
There are also 700 private apartments, and residents will be able to swim in an outdoor pool on the side roof of the 78th floor.
The Y-shape plan of the tower, copied from Islamic designs on mosque roofs, maximises views of the Persian Gulf.
Your Oil Dollars at work?
They better hope no one flies a plane into it.
The landscaping is even more breath-taking than the skyscraper. /sarc.
> Your Oil Dollars at work?
No question, but at least these dollars aren’t going
directly to Cutthroat Cultists for hostile field ops.
Cool. Yes this is where some of our oil money goes, but I’d rather Dubai invest in stuff like this than, say, terrorism.
On the downside though, this is a major target for Iran....
The oil revenues have to go someplace. Too bad the building will outlive the oil by only a few years. They will be back to tents and camels eventually.
This is just ego boobusting. It was long ago proven that once a building goes much beyond 60 floors, it becomes very uneconomical to run. With the Arab petro dollars flowing, the last thing they have to be concerned about is efficiency.
I sure hope some loony American religious group like Praise The Lord Club aided by the outlaw government of Dick Cheney and George W Bush doesnt send people to Dubai dressed as normal Arabians and fly fully loaded passenger planes into that building in a desparate suicidal attempt to show the Mid East that it is evil and corrupt in the eyes of Jesus Christ.
Agree. As well, they aren’t going to buy our Port Facilities or our Investment Banks either. I like the fact of them being planted in the middle of a dessert which, after all is said and done, will be a dessert after the energy mania recedes.
I had thought this was a rather progressive Islamic nation until recently. I need to look into it further, but it sounds like there may be some pretty unsavory things going on in that nation.
Meanwhile, still no Freedom Tower.
What’s taking so long in New York??
Chump Tower?
Looks like a target for some crazed Southern Baptist who has stolen a jet to fly in to.
What a target for some future wacko.. Perverted meglomanical dreams are made of stuff like this..
Interesting, it would take almost 1200PSI to pump water to the top floor without using a relay pumping station.
“It will provide about 15million gallons of water per year – equivalent to nearly 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools.”
I gotta admit, that’s pretty cool!
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