Worlds Tallest Building Completed

[T@T]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

As of this point, any tower that was supposed to be taller is dead in the water.

A taller tower will one day be built, however.

Maybe they build it in Edmonton, afterall...build it and they'll come.

[Thor]

Originally Posted by Playfair

Dubai was on fire economically, now they are broke.
I think there was a thread here on that subject, and
how bad things have gotten there.

It is like a monument to excess.

I think he has me on ignore.

[JustAnotherGuy]

Originally Posted by fotze

Were they born in the country of East India?

The term is sometimes used to refer to all of Southeast Asia. Historically, it referred chiefly to India.

[GoJetsGo]

Does anyone know how much of it is leased? That's a lot of space.

Too lazy to look it up.

I was watching an interesting documentary recently about how the Empire State Building was built during the recession and was considered a bust for many years as the majority of it sat empty for the first few decades...

[Playfair]

Originally Posted by Thor

I think he has me on ignore.

He who? I don't have anyone on ignore. I listen to all of you nutjobs!

[Table 5]

Just as a comparison, Burj Dubai is 4 times taller then Petro Canada.

[awildermode]

Tall buildings: feat of engineering and architecture or....penis envy?

[Antithesis]

I'm no engineer but I think the strength in the building comes from the foundation being slightly rotated clockwise as you go up the height of the building (I guess like a DNA molecule but less extreme) ... definitely a cool project but with all things in Dubai you wonder just how practical it will be.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by Antithesis

I'm no engineer but I think the strength in the building comes from the foundation being slightly rotated clockwise as you go up the height of the building (I guess like a DNA molecule but less extreme) ... definitely a cool project but with all things in Dubai you wonder just how practical it will be.

The Burj Dubai doesn't twist.

There is office space, hotel space, and residences in the building, with a bunch of retail at the bottom.

The top 40 some floors are empty shells, too small to do anything practical with.

The exact height is almost certainly 818m. For comparison, the CN Tower in Toronto is 553m to the highest point. It's nearly twice as tall as the Willis tower (Sears Tower) in Chicago.

The Burj Dubai replaced the CN tower during construction as the tallest freestanding structure ever built on land. The CN tower has been passed by at least one other structure since that time as well.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3

Finally it is open. Now in 6 years it'll be the second biggest, there is already a company planning on building one bigger, they were just waiting for these guys to finish so they'd know the exact height to beat.

lol, Engineering dick wagging at it's finest, eh?

When the Calgary Tower was being built, the engineers lied about the height, saying it was 16 feet shorter than it really was. When San Antionio, who was building a tower of their own at the same time, claimed theirs was taller, the builders in Calgary revealed the real height.

[Antithesis]

Ah, well then, I stand corrected.

[Pastiche]

World's Largest Penis Completed

[JohnnyB]

Living in Shanghai made me a big fan of vertical cities. I eventually came to really like being surrounded by high towers. I used to work in the Jinmao tower in Pudong and I always loved coming out at night and being able to gaze up at Jinmao, the Shanghai World Financial Center and the Oriental Pearl.

I'd quite like to go to Dubai to see the architecture there, but I do think the vistas from up that tower look very ugly and the location is of course really impractical long-term.

[Bigtime]

You can find all sorts of pics of this building and comments on it by skyscraper nerds (of which I am one) here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...68#post4633668

[You Need a Thneed]

Officially 828m, according to the grand opening.

It's also been renamed the Burj Khalifah.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by awildermode

Tall buildings: feat of engineering and architecture or....penis envy?

I think we have your answer:

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

The top 40 some floors are empty shells, too small to do anything practical with.

I didn't know that. That is pretty interesting. How many square feet are we talking? I'm guessing turning them into condos would only work for people who feel alright about swaying in the wind all night during their sleep.

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

You can find all sorts of pics of this building and comments on it by skyscraper nerds (of which I am one) here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...68#post4633668

Wow! Beautiful pics of the fireworks display around the building for it's opening on that site. Fantastic event for photographers. Just like how that's done with the Taipei 101 on new years events.

[malcolmk14]

I saw the CN Tower for the first time in August, and it floored me with how tall it is.

To think that this one is almost 1,000 feet taller is just mind-boggling. I need to see it at some point in my life.

[burn_this_city]

[Acey]

Burj Dubai: 3.6 million square feet
West Edmonton Mall: 3.8 million square feet