[malec]

A very nice model of business bay tower (crappy name though ). Looks soooo much better than the render above:

[mcheiss]

Cool looking building, horrible name as you said.

Is this strictly business commercial?

[southernyank]

That building looks really great

[malec]

A map of all projects on the creek, showing some projects which are fairly unknown at the moment:

Top right: Festival city
Below that: 7 pearls
Island: there will be an opera house or something of that sort here
Then on the other side there will be Arabian Bays and Wellness village
Also at the bottom there's an area that seems relatively untouched since there is a flamingo sanctuary there:







How all this looks in relation to business bay:

[mcheiss]

Wow, I'm suprised to see "The Protected Area". Dubai doesn't do that enough, good to see more work is being done for enviromental restoration and preservation.

[malec]

Finally we have it. Burj Al Alam (previously known as fortune 101)



go here for a video. Website is not complete yet:

http://www.burjalalam.com/home.htm

[southernyank]

Wow! very Dubai

[malec]

And some screencaps:

[malec]

This will actually have 108 floors and be 482m high

[dan326]

[quote name='malec' date='Dec 12 2005, 06:43 PM' post='270717']


I really like the Ocean Heights tower.

[malec]

If you notice, the towers have connected bases. Also most have ground-level retail, don't know if the masterplanners have forced this on the smaller developers but it's definitely a good thing.

[dan326]

NCB, on Dec 19 2005, 11:43 PM, said:

The larger tower really reminds me of the Chrysler Building.

That's what I was thinking.

[dgreco]

Dubai has a lot of creative and awesome building, beats the US and its box designs. Also the modernism looks so natural in their buildings.

[Skoulikimou]

Alargan 32 storey

Alargan Business Bay Development is located in the new Business Bay district in Dubai, U.A.E. This new quarter now under development is expected to attract a large number of international businesses from around the world to establish their regional headquarters. Dubai’s incredible transformation into a regional hub marks the city’s entry into the global business cities’ league and affirms its position as the region’s business capital. The new Business Bay is conceived as a “city within the city”, a business cluster along a new extension of the Dubai Creek that extends on over six million square meters featuring office and residential towers interspersed with a network of canals and road infrastructures.

Located on plot BB.A03.029, the site is a corner location on the tip of a block enjoying the bay and sea view on its northwestern orientation. The plot ground surface is 6117 square meters.

The development consists of a commercial podium built on three floors with the necessary parking facilities above and below ground and twenty nine floors of exclusive office space above the retail base. The total allowable built-up area of the development is 36702 square meters.

Our project consists of a succession of “topographic” plates that gradually recess in plan from the base up to the higher floors giving room for exceptional terraces along the perimeter of all the twenty nine office floors. Along the outer periphery of the floor plates, a number of slab extensions are conceived to further extend and enrich the office environment by providing “suspended” additions that act as extensions of the interiors. These include overhanging gardens, suspended water features, mineral gardens, loggias, extended decks and terraces, overhanging pavilions that include special board rooms and executive offices.. The central core of the building is pierced by a 450 square meters void that runs along the height of the body of the building. At the vertical tip of the building, we propose a panoramic executive restaurant with an exclusive terrace and pool along with a gym and SPA facility that enjoys panoramic views of the Dubai Creek. Our project is not just another “formal” gesture to be implemented in the rapidly growing skyline of Dubai, its architectural expressions should translate relevant and sincere design intentions that aim at providing the most exceptional office environment to its occupants.











Bernard Khoury

[dan326]

Well, it's different which is a prerequisit in Dubai. I think it has a little too much going on though.

[mcheiss]

dan326, on Dec 17 2006, 12:33 AM, said:

Well, it's different which is a prerequisit in Dubai. I think it has a little too much going on though.

I agree. There's literally thousands of high-rises planned or under construction for the city. That doesn't even include nearby Abu Dhabi and Sharjah.

[malec]

Lots of towers for business bay, random selection:















http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/407/29yobwhfq3.th.jpg http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/5958/4if732dzu3.th.jpg http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/4830/281179710deff455013bbq3.th.jpg

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/9871/2qu11efed8.th.jpg http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/9792/241ji2xte7.th.jpg http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4269/b2btower9kraf8.th.jpg http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/4489/theforumrk0zy3.th.jpg

This post has been edited by malec: 19 December 2006 - 07:17 AM

[mcheiss]

Thanks Malec!! Has construction started on any of these?

[malec]

Yep but only ground work.
All the ones I posted today are fairly new so I doubt anything is going on there but some like bayswater and one business bay are holes in the ground with piling and all this sort of stuff going on. They're doing the soil testing for burj al alam so that should start properly early next year.


The executive towers are the only ones in the advanced stage of construction:

[dan326]

mcheiss, on Dec 18 2006, 03:11 AM, said:

I agree. There's literally thousands of high-rises planned or under construction for the city. That doesn't even include nearby Abu Dhabi and Sharjah.

I ment the building had too much going on. In other words: it's ugly.