Showing posts with label dubai tower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dubai tower. Show all posts

Friday, July 15, 2011

Dubai Tower vs Cn Tower

The Burj Dubai tower is still under construction in the Gulf emirate of Dubai and is now 555 meters (1,831.5 feet) tall. It has finally surpassed the 553-metre- (1,824.9-feet) CN Tower in Toronto, Canada, which held the record for the world’s tallest free-standing structure since 1976.

The state-owned development company Emaar Properties did not reveal the tower’s final projected height or its final number of storeys, which they had kept secret since they launched the project in January 2004. The Burj Dubai is expected to be finished by the end of 2008.

Dubai Tower vs Cn Tower
Dubai Tower vs Cn Tower
Dubai Tower vs Cn Tower
Dubai Tower vs Cn Tower
Dubai Tower vs Cn Tower
Dubai Tower vs Cn Tower
Dubai Tower vs Cn TowerJust time to post a couple of shots of Dubai life. I've had a little look around since landing this morning. The building under construction is the Burj Dubai tower which when completed will stand at 800m, the world's tallest. Due to complete in 2008 it will be taller than the Taipei tower or the CN Tower in Toronto. The man in the hard hat is one of many immigrant construction workers building the tower.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Dubai Tower

"Four Tower, with floor 97 to 54, clustered to create a choreographed sculpture, representing the movement of candle are" the press release from January this year, writes architect.
Architecture firm Thompson, Ventulett Stainback, and Associates, TVS Associates, effort, (and) tough games. Dubai Towers in central London in the form construction is certainly iconic Swiss Foster's next after North Tower.
That is the secret architecture candle thought it was important to you with iconography. Maybe confused by Charles Jencks' Iconic building, he thought: 'We need that' the way girls and boys, you really do not need!

Dubai Tower
Dubai Tower
Dubai TowerCandle light ... It looks completely different, not related to the program (offices, and hotels), it is not from the context, and more: where is above? A better connection '- office building fire' not recommend. Look at the design, as you need an iconography!There is already enough.
Wave tower twist, and taper. All at the same time. Keep in mind that hard twist appears, really is fine. Dubai Towers Swiss twist suggested only answer, it is. And its effect is too high. This is the first time in the history of architecture - as far as I know - these three factors are in fact go together. Dubai Towers construction form a new level.
Dubai Tower
Dubai Tower
Dubai Tower
Dubai Tower
AMO repeatedly in the project 'Al Manakh' shows because of their presence in this form to sign a few feet. Only step left, OMA is proposed, is to withdraw the modernist slab. Koolhaas 'game is over' says.
I do not think so. Rejected by OMA for the project should read as congratulations. The rest is so much growth in the form. Color lines,, skeleton, relief, screen, dents, holes, etc., this is just the beginning.