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Burj Dubai Tower – The Tallest Tower in the World

April 15, 2009 By admin 1 Comment

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There is no city in the world can compete with the explosive development of Dubai. As a result from the rapid growth of wealth from oil in United Arab Emirates, along the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, a large amount of money will pour into the building construction, which identical to what Houston practiced few decades ago.

Today, Dubai has the world’s tallest buildings. 2684 feet of the Dubai tower (Burj Dubai) completed it top construction in January this year, is scheduled to open in autumn 2009. It will be higher than the height of 1000 feet to become the world’s tallest building. The second high-rise is located in Taiwan’s Taipei 101 building with the height of 1671 feet.

With the surging China and Dubai, Chicago has now dropped to fifth place. The Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China, north of the city are also chase behind.

This week, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (the international high-rise buildings and urban residential Committee) released a report predicted that by 2020 the height of skyscrapers in the world will once again be refresh. By 2020, the current world’s second highest building – Taipei 101 will fall to No. 20.

Dubai has the ambition to defending the champion. After the completion of the Burj Dubai Tower, Dubai starting the other planning of building another tower up to 3280 feet, the Nakheel Tower. Besides, Saudi Arabia wants to build 3,280 feet of the Kingdom Tower. These two buildings are tentatively scheduled for completion in 2020, provided that the oil continues to flow, as well as the continuous influx of US dollars.

Various parts of the world’s other super-high-rise building has already begun laying the foundation. In Shanghai, the 2073 feet high Shanghai Tower will be the city’s financial district with three towers to form a separation of the situation in the region currently stands third in the world – 1614-foot Shanghai World Financial Center.

In the United States, Chicago and New York cities are competing to build new high-rise buildings. New York’s Freedom Tower, also known as the World Trade Center One, when completed will be 1776 feet high. In Chicago, The Chicago Spire’s foundation has been completed, the building plans for 2000 feet high, which makes Chicago continue to be the home of the highest building in United States.

Renault Roadshow At Downtown Burj Dubai

April 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Downtown Burj Khalifa, which can be still recognized as Downtown Burj Dubai as of January 12, may be the big scale development task located at the “First Interchange” along Sheikh Zayed Street at Financial Centre Road (previously known as Doha Street).The entire improvement covers an area of 2 km2 (.8 sq mi), and costs US$20 billion (Dh73 billion) was announced on 12 January 2010, that, Emaar Properties is nevertheless finalising the rebranding process from the Burj Khalifa and can shortly announce whether there is going to be a new name for the Downtown Burj Dubai area or not.

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Burj Dubai Skyscraper Spire

September 9, 2008 By admin Leave a Comment

I turn a few of technical drawings and graphic design for you to have a look.

You should view the drawing from the line starting in between level 155 and level 156. That’s about 584 meters, in which the concrete will turn into the center of stainless steel. And the core will remain hollow, to facilitate the transportation to reach the spire.

When the stainless steel center is build up to 681.7 meters, the transportation will then carry out by cable car. The crane which locate at 643.3 meters(yellow lines) will pull the hollow spire to the top.

Around the center of the floor will surrounded by around the center of the floor with the volume of cement will be in sharp boost after the tower crane will be completed.

Note again, the middle of the antenna jack is the way to the top, from the central hollow to the top position. The whole construction is really amazing.