Recent pic of Burj Dubai...

[Hipster Duck]

Oh c'mon, it's fabulous! Besides, if you don't go now, you'll be missing out on one of those crazy early 21st-century phenomenons... kinda like Facebook! Besides, when you're an old geezer, won't it be better to have participated in such a ridiculous adventure back in the day of gluttony than say "too bad I never partook in the orgy of decadence" when it's all over? I've got my ticket booked for March!

Haha, Dan, I couldn't tell for a moment if you were serious, or not. One time I was actually considering going to Dubai in the off-season for an "orgy of decadence" vacation. The pricetag of such an ironic trip quickly scuttled those plans, though. It would have been priceless to waste my time window shopping in upscale malls and then dancing the night away to stuff like this.

A very James Howard Kunstler part of me is gleefully rubbbing his hands at the thought of Dubai's imminent destruction. The indoor ski slopes in the desert and the Russian prostitutes sharing sidewalk space with Islamic fundamentalists means things are going to reach quite the boiling point in the future and I'll be laughing all the way through it.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Some new Dubai related stuff from SkyscraperCity.

From Culwulla

The future from Jack3M

What if...

From King Dubai

From Nuri1986

 

[casaguy]

From Omaro over at SSC...

 

[adma]

Paging Irwin Allen...

(couldn't resist)

 

[simply Dan]

 

[Hydrogen]

Paging Irwin Allen...

(couldn't resist)

Too funny!!

 

[Conrad Black]

simply Dan are you in Dubai?

 

[simply Dan]

No, I stole those from another website. I will be pasing through in a few weeks on my way to New Delhi, though.

 

[Urban Shocker]

Dan's very own Passage To India.

 

[ganjavih]

That aerial view looks very unflattering. Looks like a bloated, dusty version of Mississauga.

 

[simply Dan]

...or North York Centre.

 

[casaguy]

I will be pasing through in a few weeks on my way to New Delhi, though.

Wow... totally jealous! Have an awesome time!

Are you flying Emirates in order to go through Dubai?

 

[simply Dan]

One of the reasons why I chose to fly through Dubai as opposed to other cities was because I get to fly Emirates!

 

[ProjectEnd]

/\ That's pretty much what it is though, just with endless funding.

 

[wyliepoon]

Middle East Business Intelligence

Link to article

Hyder designing skyscraper twice as tall as Burj Dubai


The UK's Hyder Consulting is designing a structure that will be twice as tall as the Burj Dubai, according to a consultant involved with the project - making it by far the tallest tower in the world.

Speaking at MEED's Arabian World Construction Summit in Abu Dhabi, Andy Davids, Hyder Consulting's director of structures, confirmed that the tower would be located in the Middle East region, but would not give any further details.

Hyder has been working on Emaar Properties' Burj Dubai, which is under construction in Dubai and due to be completed at the end of 2008.

Burj Dubai reached 598.5m and 158 floors last month, over 90m higher than the world's tallest building, Taiwan's Taipei 101 and more than 40m higher than the world's tallest free-standing structure, Toronto's CN Tower. Its final height is rumoured to be 818m.

Kingdom Holding Company has proposed a skyscraper in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah, the Mile High Tower, which would rise to 1,600m if completed.

Other super-tall buildings planned in the Gulf are Burj Mubarak Al-Kabir in Kuwait's City of Silk, which is expected to hit 1,001m, and Al Burj in Dubai, which is planned to reach 1,200m.