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Burj Dubai – The World Highest Building

October 20th, 2009
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Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower in English), credited as the World Highest Building, is a superb high skyscraper in Dubai with a total expected expenditure of a lucrative US$4.1 billion. The construction started five year back in 2004 and is assumed that it will be ready for starting activities by december, this year 2009. The same construction was ready in September 2009. Burj Dubai has reached a height of 2, 684 ft (818 m), thus becoming the tallest ever man made structure in the world.

burj Dubai

The World Highest Building Burj Dubai is a wonderful part of the “Downtown Burj Dubai”, flagship development sprawling in 2 sq. km area along Sheikh Zayed Road, near Dubai’s main business district. The tower is architecturally designed by famous architect Adrian Smith, who had experience in designing super structures with world renowned Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. The in charge of the project is Chicago-based architecture and engineering firm SOM.

burj Dubai under construction

The construction started on 21 September 2004 and by 17 June 2008, the construction of Burj Dubai reached up to a height of 636 m (2,087 ft). The record breaking occurred on 1 September 2008 when the tower reached 2, 257 ft making Burj Dubai the World Highest Building. It surpassed the Warsaw Radio Mast in Konstantynów, Poland, the previous record-holder. The construction contractors have announced that on 1 October 2009, the exterior of the building is completed.

Burj Dubai at night

Burj Dubai has many other distinctions in its credit. It is the building with most number of floors, 160 floors surpassing the previous record of 110 floors in World Trade Centre. This building comes with World’s highest elevator installation and the elevators have the highest speed of 18 m/s or 64 km/h. It is also credited with the record of highest vertical concrete pumping of 601 m (1,972 ft).

Burj Dubai panorama

Moreover Burj Dubai has been in the news as not only as an eye catching highest skyscraper but also as the tallest structure in the world with residential space. It is believed that by completion, it will be the most marvelous structure in whole of the world. The interiors of the World Highest Building Burj Dubai will be adorned by more than 1,000 pieces of arts and paintings and the lobby will be decorated with 196 artworks made out of bronze and brass alloy cymbals. These symbolize the 196 countries of the world. The whole building is equipped with mind blowing most modern techno savvy equipments to make it unique in all sense.

burj Dubai in fog

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“The World” Project in Dubai

April 17th, 2009
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The project “The World” is the second largest artificial island project in the world, bigger than The Palm Jumeirah and the other so-called Palm projects in Dubai. It is only in its size of Dubai Waterfront, another under construction, artificial islands exceeded. The cost of this project reaches a total of 7.6 billion U.S. $, while the small islands both 11 - 40 million U.S. $ cost. Total costs are expected after the infrastructure and the construction of all the islands at least 14 billion U.S. $. The project consists 270 islands. The total area of the project amounts to about 9 × 6 km at a sea depth of 11 to 16 meters. There will be plenty of properties for sale. Real estates will be sold by local property agencies. The smaller islands are each about 100 meters apart and by a naval transport system. It is planned around 150,000 inhabitants, 20,000 boats for different tasks, such as yachts, motorboats and sailing boats, ferries and water taxis, boats for the supply and disposal, as well as for police, fire and security guard, are the several one hundred kilometers long water roads. There are planned four so-called hubs a, from where ferries to the mainland should be connected with Dubai. In the nodal points are also administrative and utility facilities such as police stations, post offices, fire departments, restaurants and shopping malls are concentrated. In the planned land, there will be a marina gateway for 10,000 parking spaces between Port Rashid and The Palm Jumeirah - to meet the road between Dubai and The World easier. The World is estimated at 100 to 140 ferries with a capacity of 50 - 100 passengers alone for transport between the islands need. Another 60 ferries, each for 150 - 200 people are expected for the crossings to the mainland Dubai necessary. In order to reduce exhaust pollution, there are considerations, the “small” traffic on shorter routes between the islands, some with solar electric boats manner.

The World Project in Dubai

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Jumeirah, Jebel Ali, Deira - Palm Islands in Dubai

April 17th, 2009
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Palm Islands are three artificial islands (The Palm, Jebel Ali, The Palm, Jumeirah and The Palm, Deira), which is currently are building in Dubai (United Arab Emirates ). The islands are called eighth wonder of the world. Each of the three island groups are created in the form of a palm tree. The palm tree-trunk is among the projects “Jebel Ali” and “Jumeirah” about 5 and 4 km long and in the project started as a last “Deira” has the planned length of 14 km. Overall, the islands cover an area of 50 km ². There are plenty of real estates for sale The islands will be 25-times larger than Monaco and the land area of Bermuda. These projects are complemented by a topographical possible features : Since the continental shelf in the Persian Gulf far into the open sea, the water depth is relatively low. The islands consist of about 100 million cubic meters of rock and by a special compacted sand.

Palm Jumeirah

“The Palm, Jumeirah” in 2001 was the first started and almost completed island, it is located between the Jebel Ali port and the center of Dubai. Palm Jumeirah consists of three sections: the “master” ( “The Trunk”), the delicate “Palm Wave” (The Fronde) and the surrounding crescent moon (The Crescent), this surrounding protect against storm surges. The 4 km long trunk and 17 palm fronds are linked together and forms an island. On Jumeirah Island there are plenty of propertes for sale, that are ready to move in. They are located in the southeast part of Palm, connected 300 m long bridge with the mainland.

Palm Jumeirah

Palm Jebel Ali

Palm Jebel Ali is located approximately 5 km southwest of the Jebel Ali port. It is the characteristic one of this group of islands were the Dutch buoyant patents are placed between palm and the outer ring. The shape of Arabic characters are verys ollten. These characters are words from an Arabic poem written by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and it says:

“Take wisdom from the wise
It takes a man of vision to write on water
Not everyone who rides a horse is a jockey
Great men rise to greater challenges”

The palm leaves were therefore extended and the characters are marginalized. There are plans that n 2012, this six-theme park complex with a basin and bay system, trained in Orcas will be presented and opened to the rich people from all over the world.

Palm Jebel Ali

Palm Deira

Palm Deira is located approximately 5 km northeast of the center of Dubai, with its base is situated along the coastline of the Deira district. The Palm Deira is the third and largest island, with 8-times more land mass than the Palm Jumeirah, and thus almost as large as the city of Paris. The Palm will be placed 12.5 kilometers out into the sea with a maximum width of 7.5 km. At the end there will be even up to 1.3 million people live and work. 55 percent of the total real estates will be provided for private residential properties, 28 percent for industrial use and 17 percent are mixed use. The construction of this island began in November 2004, in November 2008 were already 36 percent of the land reclamation work is done, about 350,000 tons of sand were needed. A date for the completion of the entire system has not yet been announced. There will be plenty of properties for sale.

Palm Deira

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Dubai Waterfront Project

April 16th, 2009
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Dubai Waterfront is the name of a huge construction project in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. It is 30-38 miles along the coast and border to Abu Dhabi, under the leadership of the Nakheel project will be realized and was presented by Sheikh Muhammad. The master plan for the very heart of the compact city, of this 1.7 square kilometers Waterfront City, comes from the Dutchman Rem Koolhaas from Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) .

Dubai Waterfront

In its completion in the 2030er years Dubai Waterfront will be the longest shoreline of people created the earth. The project is an accumulation of many building full of canals, the inner surfaces of water and six medium-sized into the sea beyond islands. In addition to luxury hotels, residential buildings and villas local shopping centers, parks and marine transport facilities accommodate. The new District Dubai Waterfront will be according to the latest figures (2008) a population from 1.2 to 1.5 million people, and relatively self-sufficient in 10 districts. The place would have a total area of 440 square kilometers bigger than city of Cologne (405.15 km ²) and nearly half as big as Berlin (about 890 km ²). The connection to Dubai City will be finished at the end of 2009 when the Dubai Metro will be produced, it is also planned for a quick connection to the building located about 25 km from Dubai Airport World Central International.

As the center of this densely built deliberately large municipality, the almost square-cut center with some very high skyscrapers can be created. The central island is artificial and a high density development with approximately 7 million square meters of gross floor get enough space for about 310,000 jobs. You will find there lots of properties for sale. Here is the southern tip (downtown) Manhattan emulated, so in this “modern day metropolis” only 92,000 people live. The draft provides for a screening of the island in just a 5×5 square blocks, which connect to the mainland by four bridges will be produced. The aim of the whole water construction projects in Dubai including the Arabian Canal is the only 80-km long natural coastline of the Emirates Dubai is much to extend it to as many of the popular and well-selling sites to get water. It is calculated in Dubai with a total of over 1000 km of new artificial coastline and about 400 km further emerging shore line on the Arabian Canal.

Status of construction work in autumn 2008 - the east upstream Palm Jebel Ali is about to start the construction work, approximately 2 x 10 km wide coastal strip from the port of Jebel Ali south-west is developed. This almost 6 km long inland canal, is similar to the Dubai Marina excavated. He should once the planned districts “Canal District” and “Veneto” to varied perspectives, and increased recreational value breakthrough. For the construction of six artificial islands upstream has begun with the preparations. From this moment all real estates can be sold.

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