World's Tallest Building
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Dubai has a couple in the planning stages right now, Al Burj and Nakheel Tower which will also be over 200 stories. Nakheel actually has some foundation work started but was put on hold, even they are feeling the effects of the economy. Nakheel is the same developer behind the man-made islands off the coast.
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I get what he's saying...
I agree the building is Amazing, but it will dwarf everything around it and look out of place.
Still a freak'n incredible building though... it's sad we don't have any new symbols of national pride like that any more... I mean whatever happened to the Freedom Tower? it's been like 7-1/2 years and the last thing I heard about it is they were still squabbling over the designs for it, even after they laid the foundation.
So much for reconstructing it as an FU to the terrorist that knocked down the WTC, and as a symbol of our resilence
I agree the building is Amazing, but it will dwarf everything around it and look out of place.
Still a freak'n incredible building though... it's sad we don't have any new symbols of national pride like that any more... I mean whatever happened to the Freedom Tower? it's been like 7-1/2 years and the last thing I heard about it is they were still squabbling over the designs for it, even after they laid the foundation.
So much for reconstructing it as an FU to the terrorist that knocked down the WTC, and as a symbol of our resilence
I call BS on that. I've been to the top of Pike's Peak, which is 14,000+ feet and you can't see the curvature of the Earth from up there. Dubai is practically at sea level, so there's absolutely no way you can see this from a 2,300 foot tower.
The Freedom Tower is supposed to rise to a total height of 1776 feet (patriotic, no?). Here is a rendering of the new WTC site:
WTC Renderings - 2008 || WTC - Renderings || Images || World Trade Center ||
Or how about this tower in Chicago, supposed to be a total height of 2000 feet or so. Supposedly it's been started already. Anyone know anything about it?
The Chicago Spire : 400 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 60611 United States
I know what the Freedom tower is supposed to do... you just don't hear much about it's progress and it's going rather slow... I think I saw a completion date of later 2013 on Wiki, which would put it a good 12 years after the origional towers were knocked down
I understand it takes a long time to plan and build these things, but not all of that 12 years came down to planning and building...
I understand it takes a long time to plan and build these things, but not all of that 12 years came down to planning and building...
I am just telling it as I was told by a person that supposedly has been up there from the company that is building it. Call him up and say BS to him, not me! And from that second picture what do you call that curvature in the distance? It's not a mirage of any sort...it looks like quite the curvature of the earth to me
I'll bet you could from up there. At the top of Pikes Peak, everything around you is roughly the same height, so you really don't have a point of reference.
At the top of the building, with nothing else around but desert, I'll bet you could easily see the curvature of the Earth on a clear day.
I do know that if you walk out onto the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah that you can see it, just standing at sea level.
Didn't know about the Chicago Spire...
I think it reminds me of something different but this is a family friendly site... :wideeyed:
Good to hear though, thanks for sharing that one :yes:
CycloneErik
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The rooms inside look nice. Now I can go buy a place in there and find a job. Yeah, that should work.
The earth doesn't look that curved from the space station, let alone a tower. If you look at the bottom of the picture, you can see straight lines twisting: that picture is taken with a fisheye lens, which distorts the picture, especially near the edges. Still a very impressive height though.
An intersting video can be found here about the Dubai real estate market crash:
Kind of makes you wonder what's going to happen if that market never comes back.
As I said in my first post, I'm just hearing what was told by someone that has been up there.
Other than that I have no idea except pictures, and how many people on this board know that a wide angle lens re-re does that to the picture? Minus well call 90% of the other people on this board stupid also except Wesley, ISUFan22, and whatever photographers are out there or know a lot about cameras
Did you have your wide angle contacts on to see the curvature of the earth from the Bonneville Salt Flats?
CycloneErik
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They do have some of the footings done. But the whole project has been stopped due to funding. The bank behide the project pull all the funding. As of late Dec. (last time I was in Chicago) it was pretty much just a hole in the ground. Not a big one either. Really small (in Diameter) building.
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May want to quit at the moment, it is a wide angle lens (the re-re part was in reference to you I'm pretty sure). As an aside I would say what a wide angle lens does is pretty common knowledge but not something I would be surprised if someone didn't know and certainly not something I would make fun of someone about.
