Burj Dubai completed

Serris · **Reply #40 on:** January 06, 2010, 01:45:45 PM

This reminds me of those Arcologies.

Insanely cool looking but almost useless.

I hope Dubai does not carry Dubai City Tower into fruition. The building is over a mile high! What good is it?

Jasper · **Reply #41 on:** January 06, 2010, 03:04:02 PM

Well I am impressed with the 2,717 foot giant Dubai has. I might see it sometime in the future who knows?

The Chronicler · **Reply #42 on:** January 06, 2010, 03:48:30 PM

Quote from: Serris,Jan 6 2010 on 12:45 PM

This reminds me of those Arcologies.

Insanely cool looking but almost useless.

I hope Dubai does not carry Dubai City Tower into fruition. The building is over a mile high! What good is it?

Dubai isn't the only city that's proposing to have a mile-high skyscraper.

Proposed tall buildings and structures
According to this page, Kuwait City and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia also have their own plans for a mile-high skyscraper.

Noname · **Reply #43 on:** January 06, 2010, 06:47:19 PM

I've heard that all of those plans have been canceled or scaled back. Chicago has a plan for something 2000 feet tall, but it is on hold.

crazedwriter · **Reply #44 on:** January 06, 2010, 06:54:39 PM

I saw an artist's rendering of Dubai Tower while the real thing was under construction. 160 stories! And I thought I'd get a a nosebleed going up in the Sears Tower.

BTW I've yet to venture out on the glass balcony but one of these days I'll shell out the $15 just to see what it's like to look out with no "floor" under my feet. Just don't look down! :blink:

I think it's lovely. Let's hope no crazy in a plane decides to crash through it.

Noname · **Reply #45 on:** January 06, 2010, 06:57:10 PM

That remains a threat, I guess. Still, the UAE has done little to provoke such attacks. It doesn't have armies occupying the Middle East. Heck, it hardly HAS a military. Still, it might not be beyond the realm of reason to see that a western symbol of greed and decadence might be attacked. After all, the tower was made in the name of Western ideas.

Nick22 · **Reply #46 on:** January 06, 2010, 09:49:51 PM

i doubt trying to build a 3000 foot high building makes any economic sense. especially in light of 9-11, if that building is targeted while full of people, that's tens of thousands of life at risk. ok so UAE is not the top terrorist target than the US is, but still i don't see the logic in building it that high