Posted on 01/17/2007 12:35:41 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Burj Dubai skyscraper under construction here reached its 100th story on Tuesday, nearly two-thirds of the way in its relentless climb to become the world's tallest building.
With 3,000 laborers adding a new floor nearly every three days, the $1 billion spire is at 1,140 feet and days away from surpassing a neighboring skyscraper, the razor-blade resembling Emirates Office Tower, at 1,165 feet. The Emirates Office Tower is currently the tallest in the Middle East, Dubai-based developer Emaar Properties said.
"The tower is a symbol of the city's pride and a statement of our arrival on the global scene as one of the world-class cities," Emaar chairman Mohammed Ali Alabbar said.
When finished in two years, the silvery steel-and-glass building is expected to rise beyond 2,300 feet and more than 160 floors — dozens of stories taller than the world's current tallest building, the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan, which measures 1,671 feet and 101 floors.
It will also top the world's tallest freestanding structure, Toronto's CN Tower, which stands 1,815 feet.
The tallest building in the United States, the Sears Tower in Chicago, comes in at 1,451 feet, while the Empire State Building measures 1,250 feet. Before they were destroyed in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the World Trade Center towers both topped 1,360 feet. The Freedom Tower being planned for the site will measure 1,776 feet when it's completed in 2011.
Emaar isn't releasing its plans for the final height of the Burj Dubai so it can add more stories if a competing developer mounts a challenge. Predictions on skyscraper websites say the cylindrical Burj, which was designed by American architect Adrian Smith, will eventually loom over the city from a height of 2,600 feet or more.
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Well they'll never have to worry about a group of fanatical Southern Baptists hijacking an airliner and taking out their precious skyscraper while screaming "Praise JESUS!"
Those are American dollars at work. Pains me to see that.
In early 2001, ground was broken for the construction of several additional churches on a parcel of land in Jebel Ali donated by the government of Dubai to four Protestant congregations and a Roman Catholic congregation. Construction on the first Greek Orthodox Church in Dubai (to be called St. Mary's) began at the end of 2005. The land for the construction of the church was also donated by the government to the Greek Orthodox community of Dubai.
Financial support to non-Muslim groups from the Dubai government comes in the form of donated land for the construction of churches and other religious facilities, including cemeteries. They are permitted to raise money from among their congregants and to receive financial support from abroad. Christian churches are permitted to openly advertise church functions
You may be right (I'm not sure) about the level of anti-semitism present in Dubai. Putting that aside for a moment, it is truly awesome what Dubai is doing in terms of their economy. Look at every other pathetic arab nation wasting their oil. The pictures you present are an incredible testiment to what is possible when hate is pushed aside. I congratulate them for what they are doing.
What burns me is that they are doing this on a foundation that has to be sand all the way down to China (or whatever is on the other side from where they are...), and all we can build on the granite foundations of Ground Zero is the dorky-in-the-extreme Freedom Tower.
One thing I have to admire about them is that given all this cash - they are implicitly saying screw the environmentalists. Do you realize how difficult it would be to propose building man made offshore islands in the U.S.? You couldn't live long enough to see the end of the Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club, etc., etc. etc. lawsuits.
Wow! But I'm still waiting for Sky City.
We have to go nuclear in a big way. Stupid enviro-whackos.
It looks exactly like the photo in #2. I think Frank got ripped off.
Yeah, but at 2,300 feet, the plans for Dubai are only about half as ambitious as what Wright's plans called for...
Not necessary. It is a symbol of commerce and capitalism, and as we all know Jews control all the money, so the connection is already mad. But the Muslims are nothing if not patient. They will wait until the building is finished and fully occupied before they destroy it.
oops! mad = made
They definitely hate Israel if not all Jews, and have a bit of a slavery problem. That's why there were no high level visits to Dubai when W was pushing the ports deal.
Yeah it's no good to have all that oil money if the Jews cancel their credit line (old Mel Brooks joke)
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