It seems like the Burj Dubai will be dethroned from the “world’s tallest tower” position as (also) in Dubai will be built a one kilometer skyscraper. The tower was designed by Woods Bagot architects and it will be built by Nakheel, the same developer which has built those fancy state-of-the-art man-made islands in Dubai. The skyscraper will be called Nakheel Tower and as a bonus, there will also be built world’s first inner city harbor.
The entire construction area will be of 270 hectares, and when the Nakheel Tower and Harbor will be finished, it will provide enough space for 55,00 inhabitants, workplaces for 45,000 people, and for millions of tourists every year. Although it will be one kilometer-high, the skyscraper will only feature 200 floors, but this could change as the developers don’t want to tell us more about the actual height as rivals could build taller towers.
“There is nothing like it in Dubai,” said Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem. “Nakheel Harbour & Tower is located in the heart of ‘new Dubai’, where we have focused on creating a true community, a location for living, working, relaxing and entertaining, for art and culture. All of this is concentrated in one area.”
“With Islamic influences governing its design, Nakheel Tower has been able to reach its height of more than a kilometre. This inspired approach has enabled us to achieve a number of amazing feats of engineering, for example the Tower will be the world’s tallest concrete structure,” added Sultan bin Sulayem, also Chairman of Dubai World.
World’s tallest skyscraper (of the future) will consist of four individual towers, and it will feature design elements from Spain’s gardens of Alhambra, Egypt’s harbor of Alexandria, Iran’s Isfahan bridges, and Morocco’s promenade of Tangier.
“Nakheel has sought inspiration not just from Islamic design but also from the Islamic principles of inclusion, innovation, diversity, excellence, growth and progress. These are the same principles that have motivated and guided Islamic culture and helped create its great cities throughout history. Now they are shaping the cities of the future,” says Sultan bin Sulayem.
As all the “things” of the future will be green, this is the case of the Nakheel harbor & Tower as the transportation system will be based on trains and buses, as well as water and metro transportation, not on cars.
“The inspiration for the project came from Sheikh Mohammed’s vision for building for tomorrow. He is famously quoted as saying that ‘before evaluating the future, we have to take a quick look at the past. For it is the foundation of tomorrow’. It sends another message to the world that Dubai has a vision like no other place on earth,” concluded Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem.
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October 6th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
wow, pretty amazing. looks like something out of star wars.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
wtf happended to the cn tower
October 6th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
The CN tower is a tower not a skyscraper which is what they mean this is. There’s no rooms in the cn tower like there would be here. Looks like the eye of sauron tower to me with the inward curving spikes at the top.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Since they have little oil and don’t export anything, where is the money coming from to build these towers? Halliburton’s headquarters are there, but even with all their graft, that’s not enough to finance all of this.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:04 am
I think i see the eye of sauron at the top of it…
October 7th, 2008 at 12:08 am
This height race is obscene.
When are we going to invest in important things like feeding people and alternative energy sources rather than this “mine’s bigger than yours” bollocks?
October 7th, 2008 at 1:02 am
What a waste of our gas money. You would think they should try filling what they have instead of building more?
October 7th, 2008 at 3:13 am
They do not get money from oil. They get it from investments and such I heard.
October 7th, 2008 at 4:35 am
The money will run out one day. They’ll find out hard that far from building a post oil economy, they’ve built a lot of useless buildings in a desert, in which nobody would choose to live or work. Without the artificial injection of money on pointless projects, and without a sustainable local environment, there will be no reason for people to hang around.
We are witnessing monumental historical stupidity, the emergence of the premier ghost city of the future. The Angkor Wat of the 21st century.
October 7th, 2008 at 4:48 am
Dubai is a trading port independent from the UAE. Only 6% of its economy is based on oil and gas.
October 7th, 2008 at 5:25 am
Dubai’s economy was built on the back of the oil industry, which developed rapidly after oil was first struck in the mid 1960s.
http://www.usatoday.com/marketplace/ibi/dubai.htm
I should say natural resources such as helium and such which will be important for cooling newer computers.
Most of the money now is built on speculation and real estate.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Me thinks some people are trying to compensate for something?
October 7th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Like I care!
October 8th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Beautiful architecture, so stratospheric. But, as Jimi said…”and castles made of sand(or on it)fall into the sea, eventually”. Why do Dubaian’s want to be like Americans,architecturally? Vertically integrated hierachy, is evident.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
denovo postagem sobre essa merda de torre FODASSE ESSES ARABES PODRES QUEIMAM TODOS CARALHO
October 9th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
After a month another proposed tallest building will be revealed again from Dubai.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
well this new arms race is better than building tanks, i guess.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:33 am
And ten years from now a group of American bible-belt rednecks incensed by the state funeral for Osama bin Ladin (hosted by the Islamic Socialist State of Iraq) will attempt to fly a couple of hijacked planes into those towers…
October 10th, 2008 at 9:31 am
after millenia of human evolution, it all still comes down to “who has the biggest”.
its depressing and sad to be honest.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Sounds like what Bugsy Calhoone did ,after venturing out from New York City, when he built the Pink Flamingo out in the middle of a desert in a state where gambling is legal. It is now known as Las Vegas! Think about your own culture before you look down on anothers… and Dubai happens to be a seriously lavish tourists spot.
October 13th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Yikes… a bit pessimistic are we?
October 17th, 2008 at 3:14 am
Also the CN tower does not have continuous floors, another distinguishing feature of a skyscraper.
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Honestly, I think that the building is rather interesting. Dubai is attempting to make everything beautifully crafted and new wave, which I think is perfectly respectable, much more so than using gas money and taxes on weapons and better ways to destroy your enemy. Invest in making your people, country (or state, province, or parish for that matter) better. Aesthetically they are accomplishing this, I am sure they are attempting to do things on a social level as well.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:09 pm
The Nakheel Tower and Burj Dubai are both superb-looking phenomenal buildings,but how safe are they for human beings? What happens in a fire or if some Islamic fundamentalist or maybe an Iranian from just across the Arabian Gulf,decides to hijack a plane and fly into one of these two towers ? It seems to me ,also, that Dubai is building so many apartments and offices that they could be really over-doing it. Abu Dhabi is building a city for 1.5 million on Al Reem Island alone according to visit-dubai.co.uk. Dubai is building for a million on Waterfront alone. There are loads of other projects . The UAE will need about 5 million westerners just to fill all the apartments and office jobs at this rate. Yet there is a WORLD recession looming ! Has the UAE overdone it? Is it building far too much? Are they expecting too many tourists ?