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[monsoon]

[BrandonTO416]

That is simply amazing.

[swags]

Wow, they are actually going to build that... simply amazing.

[wolfdawg54]

it's amazing but it doesn't seem possible! How many stories?

Edited by wolfdawg54, 12 June 2004 - 08:08 PM.

[cityboi]

Well there goes the new World Trade Center being the tallest building in the world. that building is suppose to be 1,776 feet tall. But this 2,000 foot tower is an amazing engineering feat! Thats almost HALF A MILE HIGH! They wont be satisfied until they reach a mile high skyscraper I suppose. But as amazing is this sounds, we still cant top the engineering feat  the ancients did in Egypt. I'm refering the Great Pyramids. We can build half a mile high buildings but we dont know how to duplicate what the Egyptians did. The Egyptian could build those great pyramids but they couldn't build half a mile high building. If we could combine that engineering knowledge, think of what could be accomplished.

[Neo]

I can't believe they're building this!  What a ride this would be to the top!! 8-)

PS, I remember watching or hearing some time back about a solar building project out in the middle of nowhere in Australia.  Did this project fall through?  Wasn't it supposed to be in upwards of a mile high?

[cityboi]

I know Frank Lloyd Wright had proposed a mile high skyscraper that looks very similar to this design. But obviously they's have to be thinking about terrorism, especially where this building will be located.

Here is Frank Lloyd Wright's Mile high building which he designed in 1956. This would be a 528 story tower. Even today the design is very futuristic. This is more than double the height of the Burj Dubai tower proposal. But Burj Dubai will include the world's largest shopping mall.

[Delta]

The 2nd diagram initially posted by monsoon has the world already calling it to be the world's largest sundial.

wolfdawg54 said:

it's amazing but it doesn't seem possible! How many stories?

It has already commenced contstuction and will eventualy be 160-storeys.

Neo said:

I remember watching or hearing some time back about a solar building project out in the middle of nowhere in Australia.  Did this project fall through?  Wasn't it supposed to be in upwards of a mile high?

LOL Neo. It's hardly in the middle of nowhere in Australia. It's in the State of New South Wales on the outskirsts of a rural town known as Buronga and will be 3280ft/1000m which is the equivalent of 1 kilometre tall. As current plans go, it's going to ahead in the next few years. It will be a solar tower and here is a small render:

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[Spartan]

It frustrates me that this country in the Middle East will build something like this and we spend so much time bickering over the WTC which even though the spire might reach 1776ft, it wont actually be even close to being that high in terms of occupiablility.

It frustrates me that the most prosperous country in the world can't get a project like this accomplished anymore, and some tiny countries that most people haven't even heard of can bulid these things with seemingly little problems. (Malaysia, UAE)

[Neo]

Delta, on Jun 13 2004, 11:40 AM, said:

LOL Neo. It's hardly in the middle of nowhere in Australia. It's in the State of New South Wales on the outskirsts of a rural town known as Buronga and will be 3280ft/1000m which is the equivalent of 1 kilometre tall. As current plans go, it's going to ahead in the next few years. It will be a solar tower...

Ah, my bad! 8-)  I was just trying to remember this from something I saw on it on the Discovery Channel some time ago...it's probably been a couple of years maybe.  That's one monster!!  Be great if they put an observation deck on the top!  

[darkknight]

Yeah yeah !!! Go dubai!!!!! Ill post another cool rendering of this tower thats already under construction!!!!!
Cheers

[darkknight]

Here's the pic i promised
Enjoy
Cheers

[wolfdawg54]

That is an awesome picture of it!

[DavePaulk]

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It frustrates me that the most prosperous country in the world can't get a project like this accomplished anymore, and some tiny countries that most people haven't even heard of can bulid these things with seemingly little problems. (Malaysia, UAE)

After this, I doubt there will be many people left who haven't heard of dubai.  Is there any sort of limit to what the people in Dubai can do?? I mean, the number of "world's largest, world's greatest" projects is bordering on ridiculous.

[DavePaulk]

Just another picture of the Burj Dubai

[Delta]

DavePaulK. That one is very Metropolis (the film). Kind of early 20th Century in its rendering. Nice!!

Different style (obviously) to the SOM one that you posted darkknight - so modern and slick. I like how the terra-firma is represented.

[DavePaulk]

Agreed Delta.  I hope to be able to see some pictures of the construction of this enormous structure.  After all, it dwarfs anything ever previously constructed in terms of height.

[Delta]

Yeah, construction pics would be the next step. Can't wait.

Another cool render of this cool building with other cool buildings yet to be built - just one word (& emoticon) really.....cool B)

[monsoon]

[darkknight]

But its nomore 500 to 600!!! Its going to top 700 or even 800!!!
Cheers