*Until they build Next Big Thing next year.
Above is the Burj Dubai, the biggest building in the world. I’m glad the profits of petroleum resource exploitation are being well spent. I mean, the tower’s obviously a bargain at $800 billion.
Of interest to me (if no one else), it appears to use a bundled tube structural system (think Sears tower), and they’re getting impressive mileage out of that old standby. There are newer systems (such as the Mega-Structure system used in the Shanghai World Financial Center (pdf link)), that many professionals believe will produce the biggest buildings in the next few decades. So, we’ll see what happens, maybe skyhooks aren’t that far off…
[...] ago, I promised some scatological humor (re: penis jokes) on this blog. Time to deliver. Luckily, Quixote is out there identifying the biggest phallic buildings, so you don’t have to. Thus I give you the Burj Dubai skyscraper, which he has dubbed the [...]
The Burj Dubai is a modern marvel of engineering standing at 818 metres tall it’s the tallest man made structure in the world.
The Burj Dubai will have its grand opening on the 1st of December this year.
Great project. I saw this tower in this forum http://constructionfamily.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3046
The buildings in Dubai will be tronera reference to the world. I love them.
thats a shit building rip off money
Hai friends this is krishna. As we all know dubai is fomous for its architecture and its mineral wealth.After seeing burj dubai I was shocked to see its height which is amaging.
Thank you