PointyPenis wrote:

Stuey, technology is amazing.

Yes. Yes it is.

Bump because the tallest building in the world's (when it's finished next year) reign looks to be short lived:

The Nakheel Tower

• The Nakheel Tower will be more than a kilometre high

• It will have over 200 floors

• It will have approximately 150 lifts

• The design structure of four separate elements allows for structural rigidity while also allowing the wind to pass freely in the spaces between the skybridges reducing the overall wind load

• Total volume of concrete will be 500,000 cu m

• All of the reinforcing bars laid end to end could stretch from Dubai to New York (1/4 of the way around the world)

• The tower will have 20 km of barrettes – (almost 400 barrettes). Barrettes are a form of pile used to make the foundation. A single foundation barrette has the capacity to support a 50 storey building.

• The building has enough cooling capacity to air-condition over 14,000 modern homes or to service 14 luxury resort hotels each with 2,000 rooms and all the public areas and amenities

• The building is so tall that it experiences five different microclimatic conditions over its height, each with individual design features

• The temperature in the atmosphere at the top of the building can be as much as 10 degrees cooler than the bottom

• Due to the high speed shuttle lifts one may be able to see the sunset twice from the bottom and again from the top of the building

• The goal is to achieve the highest LEED certification we can for a building this size

• There will be approximately 10,000 car parking spaces in Nakheel Tower

• Nakheel Tower and podium combined will be in excess of 2 million sq m























To get an idea of how big this will be, image the Sears building in Chicago, stick the Empire State building on top of that (including spires), plop the Eiffel tower on that, then you'd still come up a shade short. Ridiculous. Coruscant comes to Dubai [/Star Wars geek]

PlasticSpastic wrote:

7-Story Underwater Hotel to Open in 2010

I think it looks amazing all the designs so far.

That looks amazing!

But i would be looking for 10 metre thick glass at least lol!

PlasticSpastic wrote:

Haha, i'd be too afriad to go to sleep.

My mum read it in the paper about a week a go, and if you are to stay in the hotel for the night it would cost you thousands.

This is a structure of what they're doing .

Does look amazing like! Would be cool to lay and watch all the fishes. Until some sort of whale or shark comes pounding by!! lol.

PlasticSpastic wrote:

I laughed so hard then.

First you'll see a load of small fish swimming by next a huge shark.

Haha yeah i know. So peaceful and tranquil and lovely, then a remake of jaws as it starts pounding at the glass!

Na i'll stick to travel lodge i think. I can deal with drunk morons not sharks lol x