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Impressive! But when you consider the ground size of that hotel is 1/50th of the Burj Khalifa, and not nearly as tall as tier 1, and that the Burj was completed in 6 years, I think the award goes to Dubai (or Korean builders, depending on how you look at it) - or even the architects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa
This building is just phenomenal.
-m.
Check out the milestones. 😉
15 Dec 10
Originally posted by mikelomThat building loses big points for being overly ostentatious.
Impressive! But when you consider the ground size of that hotel is 1/50th of the Burj Khalifa, and not nearly as tall as tier 1, and that the Burj was completed in 6 years, I think the award goes to Dubai (or Korean builders, depending on how you look at it) - or even the architects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa
This building is just phenomenal.
-m.
Check out the milestones. 😉
Up to $43k per square meter office space? Jesus...
15 Dec 10
Originally posted by CrowleyOstentatious agreed, too. But for time scale of building, and new methods used...?
That building loses big points for being overly ostentatious.
Up to $43k per square meter office space? Jesus...
Lifts...... cement feed in a vertical direction, water cooling and usage, but for a list of new technologies I don't have space to add? It has to take away from a few cranes working for 6 days with Chinese men working in teams of hundreds at a time, to build a hotel of minimal proportions, doesn't it?
Upto $43k have been quoted. This site says 37.5
http://www.dubai-information-site.com/burj-dubai-pictures.html
When u look at the pics u can get a level of expense spent. It isn't just floor space - it includes gold and marble etc. Rental will cover that easily in a ten-12 year period.....so money well invested, in my book.
15 Dec 10
Originally posted by mikelomConcrete has been pumped up into construction projects for years dude. Sure, not 600m up, but engineers can scale anything like that with enough money thrown at the problem.
Lifts...... cement feed in a vertical direction, water cooling and usage, but for a list of new technologies I don't have space to add? It has to take away from a few cranes working for 6 days with Chinese men working in teams of hundreds at a time, to build a hotel of minimal proportions, doesn't it?
Upto $43k have been quoted. This site says 37.5
htt ...[text shortened]... Rental will cover that easily in a ten-12 year period.....so money well invested, in my book.
There's nothing to it. It's just a bunch of people who got rich off our oil dependence pissing the budget of a small African country into a largest pile of steel and concrete to create the world's largest phallic over-compensation.
The Chinese built a friggin 15 storey hotel in the same time American 'reality' shows struggle to finish a 4 bedroom plank house.
Money well invested? God, if anyone in a company I control ever spent that much on a square meter of anything, I would build a 15 storey building and throw him off it.