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"http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iItzs35tXJ_cxiVNAvYndLX2t8xwD91BE8J01"

Holy shit that's fucking disgusting and horrible

I had no idea that the Emiratis were still acting like animals like that... I mean, that's approaching or equalling Saudi levels... I seriously thought they were better than that.

Fuck the asshole prince. Rape him with a cattle prod, cut his balls off and then leave him in the middle of the desert to bleed to death


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6/17/2008 6:33:03 PM

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"Lawyers said the video also showed the victim's genitals being lit on fire. They said the abuse began because the sheik felt he had been overcharged in a grain deal."

Somebody pissed in the sheik's cornflakes.

6/17/2008 9:09:00 PM

I don't know if anyone has posted the new headquarters for central television

7/16/2008 1:40:02 PM

^ that shit is hot!

7/17/2008 8:32:19 AM

Soleil has lost financing....

http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1144214-p2.html

7/17/2008 10:00:26 AM

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7/17/2008 10:14:12 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080720/wl_mcclatchy/2994196
^link about that building

Its engineering is so complex that the designers say such a building couldn't have been built a few years ago. That's because it took immense computing power to ensure that the design could withstand huge pressures in the earthquake-prone capital. Some 10,000 tons of steel were used in its construction.

As much as it's a challenge to gravity, the building is a challenge to the mind, critics say, defying conventions of skyscrapers as vertical shafts thrusting straight up.

"It captures the spirit of the country at this point in time, a really daring spirit to look into the future and try the impossible," said Rocco Yim , a Hong Kong architect who sat on the jury in 2002 that selected the winning design for the tower.

7/22/2008 9:47:44 AM

that's awesome...i think i'd be afraid of it a bit, though

7/22/2008 12:16:10 PM

some serious structural engineering going on there. I wouldn't have approved it

course I'm a ME though.

7/23/2008 11:01:37 AM

BMW Headquarters...

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7/24/2008 11:15:40 AM

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"vertical shafts thrusting straight up."

7/24/2008 11:24:48 AM

That building is old and not even a skyscraper.

7/24/2008 11:27:41 AM

^ are you talking about the BMW headquarters? Why wouldn't it be a skyscraper? It's taller than the first modern skyscraper if that's what you are getting at... Then again, I suppose it is more of a highrise compared to most other skyscrapers being built today...

[Edited on July 24, 2008 at 1:43 PM. Reason : .]

7/24/2008 1:41:11 PM

this was going to be Four First Union Center in Charlotte. It made it past the planning stages and was put on paper and given on OK for building to start. After the First Union/Wachovia merger the building was scrapped. It would have been so cool.

7/24/2008 1:56:45 PM

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=41unioncenter-charlotte-nc-usa

go there for pics

7/24/2008 2:06:16 PM

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"convention in the United States and Europe now draws the lower limit of a skyscraper at 150 meters (500 ft)"

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"The building stands 101 m (roughly 331 feet) tall"

7/24/2008 2:51:36 PM

^good info.

big buildings rock.

7/24/2008 2:58:11 PM

Tuntex Sky Tower in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. It has 85 stories and has a height of 1,240 ft. The Tuntex Skytower was Taiwan's tallest building from 1997 until March 2003, when its title was overtaken by Taipei 101.

8/5/2008 2:38:47 PM

^ I want to put a giant fake cock on that building at the bottom of the middle tower.

8/5/2008 2:46:54 PM

New Dubai pictures:
http://gizmodo.com/5039300/real-sim-city-comes-to-life-in-the-desert



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8/20/2008 9:00:15 PM

oops

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8/24/2008 11:04:24 PM

Are there enough people in Dubai to fill up these developments, or is it just to prove that they can do it?

8/24/2008 11:18:38 PM

Naberezhnaya Tower, one of the complexes that make up the Moscow International Business Centre aka Moscow-City, is currently the tallest completed building in Europe. The tallest tower, Block C, is 881 ft. tall and has 59 floors.



Naberezhnaya Tower with some of the other Moscow-City complexes currently under construction.

9/4/2008 9:26:42 PM

Shanghai Center
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=shanghaicenter-shanghai-china

When finished it will be the tallest building in Shanghai @ 600m (emporis is wrong), estimated 2014.

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"Gensler has been selected to design the 600-meter Shanghai Center in Shanghai's Luijiazui financial district. The tower will become a new landmark on the skyline of Pudong and set a new benchmark for sustainable building performance and technological innovation. Headed by Shanghai Tower & Construction Co., Ltd, the project development team selected Gensler after an extensive competition between local and international design firms. Thornton Tomasetti structural engineers, Cosentini Associates mechanical engineers and the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tongji University, serving as the Local Design Institute, will support Gensler. Ground breaking is expected in December of 2008 with completion in 2014. Comprising 4,090,285 square feet (380,000 square meters), the tower will be one of the tallest in the world."

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9/4/2008 9:40:29 PM

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=102119

Trump International Hotel & Tower currently under construction in Chicago. At 1,362 feet (height of roof and spire) it will be the second tallest building in Chicago after the Sears Tower and the second tallest building in the United States (but it will be surpassed later by the Chicago Spire and NYC's Freedom Tower). It was originally going to be much taller and end up being one of the tallest buildings in the world, but it was scaled back after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It is being built on the former site of the old Chicago Sun Times low rise building alongside the Chicago River.

9/15/2008 7:58:19 PM

The Ocean Heights supertall skyscraper designed by Aedas which is under construction in the Dubai Marina of greater Dubai. The tower will stand 310 meters (1,017 feet) tall and have 82 floors. Construction is set to end in 2010. The current version of the tower under construction, with its unique curves and twisting motion as one ascends, is actually the third version of the tower proposed by DAMAC Properties Co. The first version had the tower at a much shorter 38 floors, the second had 50.

10/10/2008 11:05:01 AM

Dubai is gonna look sick !

10/10/2008 12:16:37 PM

like it needs antibiotics?

10/10/2008 4:12:53 PM

My company was just awarded the Building Automation Controls contract for the Freedom Tower, w00t.

10/27/2008 10:08:43 PM

word, controls has been the majority of my work that ive done in my young HVAC career hehe

10/27/2008 10:15:49 PM

This thread may never die

I'm walls1441 and i approved this message.

10/27/2008 10:35:59 PM

The Burj Al Alam (which means World Tower in English) in Dubai. It is currently undergoing construction and is expected to be completed in 2010. It will have 108 stories and be 1,673 ft tall. It will contain 74 floors of office space, a retail area at the base, and a high-end hotel and serviced apartments in the top 27 floors. The hotel section is to contain the highest hotel rooms in the world. The building will also feature a 6-storey crown that will contain a Turkish bath, sky garden, and other club facilities.

11/11/2008 2:04:25 PM

^ Here is the irony:

Burj Dubai: Dubai Tower: 2,684 feet (currently ~2,420 feet)
Burj Al Arab: Arab Tower: 1,053 feet
Burj Al Alam: World Tower: 1,673 feet (construction recently started)
Al Burj: The Tower: 3,280-4,593 feet (proposed tower)


Anyway, here are the latest pics of Burj Dubai, which currently stands at around 2,420 ft, and is around 2,370 ft in the pics.

11/21/2008 5:30:16 PM

It's quite interesting that all these towers are being built bigger and more appealing, and yet nobody has made the world's largest sundial from a large center tower and outlaying marker towers. The whole thing could be placed in a large resort or something if they want to have a clear view to the markers.

11/22/2008 12:58:19 PM

Menara Telekom in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is 1,017 ft tall and has 55 floors. It has 1.6 million ft² of floor area. It is a relatively young building having been completed in 2001.The design was influenced by the bamboo shoot which is considered as a Malaysian identity. It has a professional performance theatre for an audience of 2,500, exhibition halls and a recreation centre for Telekom Malaysia staff. A unique design to the building is the 22 open skygardens that alternate every three floors. And yeah that's a helipad on top.

1/12/2009 10:36:28 PM

Not a skyscraper, but it will make for an awesome disaster movie one day:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/09/floating.cities.seasteading/index.html

3/10/2009 5:10:13 PM

I went to Philly this past week, and I love its downtown area and skyline. As supposedly evil as Comcast is, they built a beautiful building, especially when it's lit up at night.

The building is 975 feet tall and has 58 floors, making it the 15th tallest building in the US and tallest in Philadelphia. The Comcast Center's liquid column damper is the largest in North America. It received a gold Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating in April 2009, making it the tallest LEED building in the United States. The building was designed to use 40 percent less water than a typical office building and the plaza was designed to reduce heat-island effect from the pavement by 70 percent. Reducing air conditioning and lighting costs, the low-emissivity glass curtain wall blocks 60 percent of heat while allowing 70 percent of the sun's light inside.

5/12/2009 10:07:45 AM

nice, that, i think is the next big thing in massive building construction (apart from the newer countries must build bigger motivations) are buildings that pull less from the grid (power, water, sewer etc) and to some extent provide something back as well. (power, food, green roof etc)

5/12/2009 10:26:34 AM

this is one of my favorite threads on tww.

5/12/2009 10:45:16 AM

A local guy told me that the way they broke the curse of Billy Penn was by putting a minature version of the William Penn statue found atop City Hall on top of the Comcast Center.

5/12/2009 10:52:01 AM

Was that local guy an avid Wikipedia reader?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_William_Penn

5/12/2009 2:53:13 PM

Maybe so. It was pretty big news in Philly. There were some news outlets that covered the story, so I guess he may have found out from just watching the news.

5/12/2009 3:45:22 PM

bump

6/22/2011 8:20:51 PM

thanks.

darn it... a few more posts to go before a fresh page... this page is too long and too wide.

i will post consecutively to get to a new page... thanks.


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6/22/2011 8:31:04 PM

several

6/22/2011 8:33:45 PM

new

6/22/2011 8:34:56 PM

record-breaking

6/22/2011 8:36:32 PM

buildings

6/22/2011 8:38:01 PM

completed

6/22/2011 8:39:02 PM

in the 2y 1m 10d since the last post in here

6/22/2011 8:40:56 PM