Vive La France Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 (edited) For all of you that don't know yet, the largest building in the world is expected to be completed in December this year. Is an artists idea of the completed project And this is a photo from October, 2007 discuss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai Edited January 10, 2008 by Vive La France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartleby Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Are you sure about its completion date being this year? Burj Dubai (Arabic: برج دبي "Dubai Tower") is a supertall skyscraper currently under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. When it is completed in mid 2009... As of 27 December 2007, Burj Dubai has reached a height of 598.5 meters (1,963.582678’) with 158 completed floors. Holy crap, that's f*cking huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manofpeace Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Looks cool. Shows how rich those Oil plant owners are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive La France Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 I read apartments are starting at 500 US dollars per square foot. (Why is this in those damn units? Would a LITTLE metric hurt?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creed Bratton Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Its too tall for my taste Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OH NO Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I like it, it looks like Megatrons tower from one of the old transformers cartoons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxk Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Oh, yes..I believe I saw that in the discovery channel.....always wanted to look at a finished picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyZimmzy Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Lol, the painting makes the whole city look almost Atlantas, lost city-like. The actual photo looks like a third world country, where I wouldn't even take a dump on the side of a road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddy Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 The actual building will be completed this year, but it wont be until mid 2009 that people can actually move in and stuff. They really are going crazy over there, considering they have a limited amount of oil left, they better make it attractive for people to keep going back to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taste Of Chaos Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai f*ck me...Thats a whopper. looks like a space rocket no? Opportunity knocks once in a lifetime, temptation will lean on the doorbell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxk Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I like it, it looks like Megatrons tower from one of the old transformers cartoons. Nah, looks like one of the buildings from the giant planet.....or perhaps Unicron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girish Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I read apartments are starting at 500 US dollars per square foot. (Why is this in those damn units? Would a LITTLE metric hurt?) I'm buying two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 For me, it dwarves the other buildings that are tall in their own regard, and disturbs the integrity of the skyline. They're only making it this big for bragging rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxk Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Just think of the carnage if Osama drives a Boeing A380 into the bottom most floor.....TIIIIIIMMMMMBBEEEEEEEER........and down goes the wheasel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Alfano Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Just think of the carnage if Osama drives a Boeing A380 into the bottom most floor.....TIIIIIIMMMMMBBEEEEEEEER........and down goes the wheasel Hush, don't let that imagination of your run rampant. Come now... Quite the spectacle, it will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxk Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Just think of the carnage if Osama drives a Boeing A380 into the bottom most floor.....TIIIIIIMMMMMBBEEEEEEEER........and down goes the wheasel Hush, don't let that imagination of your run rampant. Come now... Quite the spectacle, it will be. it'll be like those houses made out of playing cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-maddog- Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Imagine that f*cker toppling over! I saw that on some "Huge Stuff" programme on discovery! The view from the top was amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuyFromThere Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I read apartments are starting at 500 US dollars per square foot. (Why is this in those damn units? Would a LITTLE metric hurt?) f*ck your metric bollocks, what a stupid system. mehhhh i guess its pretty big inactive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picolini Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Well, going by what Bartleby said, it's still got a good year and half until they need to be finished. So I guess they can still finish it. But from the looks of it, it'l be delayed by a few months, most likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindCorrupt Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 (edited) According to that video, the pictures above show the tower at only 2/3's height. This f*cker is gonna be huge Edited January 10, 2008 by mr_ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie280 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Looks like Dubai is compensating for something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svip Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I read apartments are starting at 500 US dollars per square foot. (Why is this in those damn units? Would a LITTLE metric hurt?) f*ck your metric bollocks, what a stupid system. I hope you were being sarcastic. Otherwise I will have to ban you. You can use your inferior system, but insulting the Metric system is forbidden. Unless you come up with a better system, but it is a requirement that it uses duodecimal. Also, the way the building is constructed is how it is going to avoid the high winds. Notice how there is no "flat" sides where wind can just smash on. That is the entire concept of its construction. It should work... in theory. I certainly hope so for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-/TNT\- Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Do you need to bring your own parachutes? That looks sweet and a bit scary. TonyZimmerz is correct, the place where it is situated looks like a dump. I'm sure it will change though. GTA V: Dubai anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derty Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Welp, I guess I finally found the place I will jump off of and die. svip, I see what u did there u bastid Looks like Dubai is compensating for something... hahahahahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D- Ice Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Looks like Dubai is compensating for something... Yes, the fact that the country is STILL not developed in terms of culture and civilisation. Racism is still rampant there as some people relative of mine pointed out, with entire neighbourhoods for the Dubaii Emiratees, and others just for western foriengners, and the crappyist for Eastern foriegners. Plus lets not forget their attitudes towards women - they cover up their women like ninjas, which is not at all true Islam - only for their guys to be complete perverts towards western women, making some Russian/Eastern European bitch secretaries who work for them wear like f*cking strippers so they can perv on them - the rest of the guys are, or are considering homosexuality. Oh, and did I mention some of those bastards are secretly funding terror in Iraq, so they can exploit our instability by selling us goods for over three times their original prices and kidnap and use our women as sex slaves, just like they already do to lots from Russian mob abductions. So yes, those imbisil, uncivilised Shieks who do not democratically represent their people, and cause so much suffering are compensating for something, using their oil money to run so many criminal and terror empires. Oh, penis size is also being compensated for . Sorry about the rant, I just had to get my anger and hate towards those fa**ot shieks of my chest - wholly crap, my D-cup man breasts have inflated to a mere B-cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-maddog- Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 May have been mentioned before, but the estimated final height of Burj Dubai will be around 850 meters! And yea, go metric! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mega Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I'll post some of my pics tomorrow. Signature soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gta_player5 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Al Burj Al Burj is a supertall skyscraper proposed in Dubai, United Arab Emirates by developer Al Nakheel. Nakheel is in talks with several potential contractors which include South Korean Samsung Group who is also building the Burj Dubai, Japanese Shimizu Corporation and Australian Grocon. An article posted on Construction UAE and MEED.com [3] on 16 March 2007 indicates that construction on the tower is slated to begin later this year and that the final height of the tower will be 1,200 m (3,937 ft), reduced from an initial height of 1,600 m (5,249 ft) or just under one mile. However, more recent indications are that the project has been considerably downgraded. This is getting a bit ridiculous, don't you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No.1 Loonie Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I didn't realize that they are so close to being done, does anyone know when they started construction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanilla Shake Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Eh, looks pretty cool, but I still like the Empire State Building better. Plus I'm more interested in the construction of the Freedom Tower, supposedly opening in 2011. TC718 / <629 / CF5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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