Burj Dubai Tower
 

Holy cow, I knew it was going to be the tallest building in the world but 900m tall? That is nuts. Taipei 101 is around 510m. In this photo it is 555m tall. Right now it is 688m.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/...cy9Hv/610x.jpg

It's like they hired a bunch of SimCity experts out there to make the game happen in real life.

Very unrelated. Could you please stick to the topic.

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That is over half a mile tall when finished. :Oh crap

Damn we need more pics of this massive building !!

that is amazing. can't wait to see it completed. something like double the size of Sears Tower??

Yup, the Sear's Tower is 451.9m so 3.8m shy of double.

thats crazy, badass city they got going there

Holy shit!

http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/2...dubai_1001.jpg

Wonder if they have a lot of llama farms.

Yea I saw it being built when I was out there last. It kinda dominates everything... I wonder when we'll hit mile high buildings.

It would be worthless without them!

money talks

holly shit... talk about Babel's tower (astonished emoticon here)

Yeah, just wait until someone in their government pisses off some muslim wack job who ends up bringing the building down.....

got to second that... will be a hell of a show to watch this building go down.

Imagine having an office in those 600m. How long does it have to take to get down to buy a cigarettes?

Makes me wonders two things..

1. How many of those buildings are close to capacity vs empty.

2. How much are they paying the Religious extremist to keep the terrorist out? You know damn well with all that western influence that is going on in Dubi, it has to piss off the tango's. The first major terrorist attack that happens there and it's... say good bye to the tourism dollars.

I doubt they are dependend on so called "tourism dollars" ..

Its just too small country with too much oil and a government that does a great way of image making.

Dubai? It is a big weekend break shopping destination for the UK rich and I am sure a lot of other places.

The entire reason they are building all this stuff, is to build up the tourism dollars. The King of Dubai is one of the few middle eastern leaders that understands the oil will eventually run out.

He is trying to turn his country into the hot spot of the middle east to attract western tourism dollars. That's the reason behind all the crazy stuff they are building. He's using the oil dollars to hopefully build a future revenue for the country before the oil runs out.

They are very much depending on tourism dollars especially now the oil is running out. You think they build all these cool buildings for the sake of it? They also invest heavily all around the world in property and buisnesses.

Dubai's oil reserves have always been a fraction of those in Abu Dhabi, and today they account for less than 10% of Dubai's income. Dubai's known oil reserves are scheduled to run out by around 2010.
I think tourism and financial market place are the new income streams.

That thing is just ridiculous! http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/2...i_0601high.jpg

Holy fuck, it's huge!

Can you imagine how many street sweeper guys they must need in that city with all that sand?

Thats what SHE said!

http://i17.tinypic.com/4md0rqv.jpg

Someone gets it :thumbsup

And they are attracting alot of business to relocate there because there is NO TAX. This is why they are building all the tall buildings, for offices etc for the big new companies that move there.

I want to watch a show of that thing going up !!!

Do they allow porn companies :)?

well they allow Michel Jackson..

Dubai is also a very small country. They have to build skyskrapers otherwise they'd run out of space pretty soon.

parachute maybe ?

yeah thats right, I agree with this.. but not with the tourism part..

the big prices are not a key for tourists, its just a place for millionaires

It's actually a city located within the UAE, United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE is also showing some big development. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Dhabi_(emirate)

1km tall buildings may be coming soon. The Murjan Towers in Bahrain is a proposed project and Tower 1 is 1,022 meters tall.

see above + as long as I know they dont have a king.. its called Sheikh or so

according to wiki:

"Dubai's oil reserves have diminished significantly and are expected to be exhausted in 20 years"

So not 2010 and that does not mean they do not make money from it.. dont forget the gas prices today. But you are right it makes only 6% of their income.

no they are not

"Real Estate and Construction (22.6%), Trade (16%), entrepôt (15%) and financial services (11%) are the largest contributors to Dubai's economy. "

go on the net and educate yourself

And Kuwait is going for a 1km tall building - the Burj Mubarak Al-Kabir @1,001m.

And not to be outdone work has begun on the 1050m tall Al Burj in Dubai!

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...0779gg0qo1.jpg

right, but I doubt Michael Jackson, Beckham and similiar make their economy :1orglaugh

its just the image part I noted above

will this tower resist us airplanes ?

They will have to depend on tourism in 20 years because they will run out of OIL, this is why Dubai is building like crazy now.

AMAZING!!! Dubai needs to save $$$ for rainy days.

I got my information from economist.com

That would seem the intelligent guess at first.

But if you look at history....insane men with wealth really only want 1 thing....to be in the history books.

By building this massive wonder of the world, he will be forever in the history books.

A "ROME" in the desert appeared from nothingness in the desert, brought up by the great ruler "So & So".

If you look at it from that angle, you'll see he doesn't much care about his citizens :2 cents:

Only in future history maybe Rome will be replaced with "Dubai" & war will be replaced with "Financial takeover"

thats more than amazing. i wish to visit Dubai someday..

:thumbsup only Arabs can build something like that