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Burj Dubai
A zine about the Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world. The Burj Dubai is a skyscraper currently under construction, since April 15, 2005, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It will soon be the tallest tower in the world...
A zine about the Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world.
The Burj Dubai is a skyscraper currently under construction, since April 15, 2005, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It will soon be the tallest tower in the world.
The lead architect for the Burj Dubai is Adrian Smith of the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.
Its final height is officially being kept a secret due to competition ; however, figures released by a contractor on the project have suggested a height of around 808 meters!
The total number of floors is expected to be around 160.
A more recent article by building subcontractor Persian Gulf Extrusions and dated September 20, 2006, states a final height "over 940 metres" or at least 3084 feet, but this has not yet been confirmed by Emaar.
As of December 12, 2006, the Burj Dubai was at 94 stories tall, and is now the second tallest building in Dubai, and the seventeenth tallest building in the world.
Linked from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai
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Architecture and Design
The tower is being constructed by Samsung Engineering & Construction and designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, who also designed the Sears Tower in Chicago and the Freedom Tower in New York City, among numerous other famous high-rises. The building resembles the bundled tube form of the Sears Tower, but is not a tube structure. The design of the Burj Dubai is reminiscent of the Frank Lloyd Wright vision for The Illinois, a mile high skyscraper designed for Chicago, Illinois. The Burj Dubai is expected to rise to 150% of the height of the Sears Tower.
The design of Burj Dubai is ostensibly derived from the patterning systems embodied in Islamic architecture, with the triple-lobed footprint of the building based on an abstracted version of the desert flower hymenocallis native to the region. The tower is composed of three elements arranged around a central core. As the tower rises from the flat desert base, setbacks occur at each element in an upward spiralling pattern, decreasing the cross section of the tower as it reaches toward the sky. At the top, the central core emerges and is sculpted to form a finishing spire. A Y-shaped floor plan maximizes views of the Persian Gulf. Viewed from above or from the base, the form also evokes the onion domes of Islamic architecture.
The exterior cladding of the Burj Dubai will consist of reflective glazing with aluminum and textured stainless steel spandrel panels with vertical tubular fins of stainless steel. The cladding system is designed to withstand Dubai's extreme summer temperatures.
The interior will be decorated by Giorgio Armani. An Armani Hotel (the first of its kind) will occupy the lower 37 floors. Floors 45 through 108 will have 700 private apartments on 64 floors (which, according to the developer, sold out within eight hours of going on sale). Corporate offices and suites will fill most of the remaining floors, except for a 123rd floor lobby and 124th floor indoor/outdoor observation deck. The spire will also hold communications equipment. An outdoor zero-entry swimming pool will be located on the 78th floor of the tower.
It will also feature the world's fastest elevator, rising and descending at 18 m/s (40 mph). The world's current fastest elevator (in the Taipei 101 office tower in Taipei) travels at 16.83 m/s (37.6 mph). Engineers had considered installing the world's first triple-decker elevators, but the final design calls for double-decker elevators. A total of 56 elevators will be installed that can carry 42 people at a time.
Engineers rotated the building 120 degrees from its original layout to reduce stress from prevailing winds. Over 45,000 cubic metres (59,000 cubic yards) of concrete, weighing more than 110,000 tonnes (120,000 short tons) were used to construct the concrete and steel foundation, which features 192 piles buried more than 50 m (164 ft) deep.
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Architecture and Design
The tower is being constructed by Samsung Engineering & Construction and designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, who also designed the Sears Tower in Chicago and the Freedom Tower in New York City, among numerous other famous high-rises. The building resembles the bundled tube form of the Sears Tower, but is not a tube structure. The design of the Burj Dubai is reminiscent of the Frank Lloyd Wright vision for The Illinois, a mile high skyscraper designed for Chicago, Illinois. The Burj Dubai is expected to rise to 150% of the height of the Sears Tower.
The design of Burj Dubai is ostensibly derived from the patterning systems embodied in Islamic architecture, with the triple-lobed footprint of the building based on an abstracted version of the desert flower hymenocallis native to the region. The tower is composed of three elements arranged around a central core. As the tower rises from the flat desert base, setbacks occur at each element in an upward spiralling pattern, decreasing the cross section of the tower as it reaches toward the sky. At the top, the central core emerges and is sculpted to form a finishing spire. A Y-shaped floor plan maximizes views of the Persian Gulf. Viewed from above or from the base, the form also evokes the onion domes of Islamic architecture.
The exterior cladding of the Burj Dubai will consist of reflective glazing with aluminum and textured stainless steel spandrel panels with vertical tubular fins of stainless steel. The cladding system is designed to withstand Dubai's extreme summer temperatures.
The interior will be decorated by Giorgio Armani. An Armani Hotel (the first of its kind) will occupy the lower 37 floors. Floors 45 through 108 will have 700 private apartments on 64 floors (which, according to the developer, sold out within eight hours of going on sale). Corporate offices and suites will fill most of the remaining floors, except for a 123rd floor lobby and 124th floor indoor/outdoor observation deck. The spire will also hold communications equipment. An outdoor zero-entry swimming pool will be located on the 78th floor of the tower.
It will also feature the world's fastest elevator, rising and descending at 18 m/s (40 mph). The world's current fastest elevator (in the Taipei 101 office tower in Taipei) travels at 16.83 m/s (37.6 mph). Engineers had considered installing the world's first triple-decker elevators, but the final design calls for double-decker elevators. A total of 56 elevators will be installed that can carry 42 people at a time.
Engineers rotated the building 120 degrees from its original layout to reduce stress from prevailing winds. Over 45,000 cubic metres (59,000 cubic yards) of concrete, weighing more than 110,000 tonnes (120,000 short tons) were used to construct the concrete and steel foundation, which features 192 piles buried more than 50 m (164 ft) deep.
DUBAI, UAE, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- History is in the making as
Seawings is flying high, ensuring that every glass clad meter of the tallest
building in the world can be witnessed through the eyes of the public.
- Burj Dubai enters final leg of construction (ameinfo.com)
- Top Of The World View From Atop Burj Dubai Tower (blog.miragestudio7.com)
- Video From Top of Burj Dubai (shoppingblog.com)
Burj Dubai Tower, the world’s tallest building, is a spire of superlatives. The 160-story skyscraper will open on Jan. 4, the fourth anniversary of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed al-Maktoum’s rule in Dubai.
From minnpost.com
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- Burj Dubai Tower Opens as World's Tallest Building in January 2010 (associatedcontent.com)
- Your first peek inside the towering Burj Dubai (gadling.com)
Probably the best thing of the whole Burj Dubai oasis: the free fountain spectacle running each 15 minutes or so to the inexorable pleasure of the tourist and shoppers. Running on par with its different soundtracks, the simple blow of the jets breaking the water’s surface adds to the rhythm of the performance. Like canons simply amplifying the auditory magnitude of the show.
The kids go crazay when the wind makes the falling water rain...
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- The Dubai Fountain (neatorama.com)
Burj Dubai ("Dubai Tower"), a supertall skyscraper under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is the tallest man-made structure ever built.Contributor: Slobodan GregoricPublished: Nov 11, 2009
From associatedcontent.com
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- Video Shot From The Top of The Spire on Burj Dubai, The Tallest Building In... (sanfrancisco.cityfeeds.com)
A tipster sent along this spectacular photo of the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest, most absurdly ostentatious building, getting stuck by lightning. While checking for newness, I noticed something amazing: This happens all the time. (more…)
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