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Burj Dubai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The design of Burj Dubai is derived from the geometries of the desert flower, which is indigenous to the region, and the patterning systems embodied in Islamic architecture. As the tower rises from the flat desert base, setbacks occur at each element in an upward spiraling pattern, decreasing the cross section of the tower as it reaches toward the sky. Burj Dubai is being built primarily by immigrant engineers and workers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Philippines. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burj_Dubai   (1665 words)

Al Burj - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Al Burj is a skyscraper proposed in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and is expected to rival Burj Dubai for the world's tallest building title. If built, it will form the centrepiece of the Dubai Waterfront being developed by Al Nakheel, which is also the developer of the famous Palm Islands. Like the Burj Dubai, officials have said the tower will be at least 700m tall although the official height will remain secret. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_Burj   (263 words)

The Place 2 Be: Etisalat Tower, Dubai Each of these Towers is based on the same essential design of a vertical column topped by a communications orb but they differ to give each Emirate its own distinctive building. The Etisalat Tower in Dubai was designed by the renowned Canadian architect Arthur Ericson whose project was taken over and completed by the Canadian building consultants Cansult after Ericson encountered contractural difficulties. It is a 100 metre cylindrical tower of concrete, steel and glass comprising 15 floors with an adjacent 3-storey circular annex containing public service offices and facilities. www.geocities.com /Athens/Troy/4081/EtisalatTower.html   (455 words)

albawaba.com middle east news information::Dubai: SABA Tower 1 to become first freehold luxury office tower to be ... SABA Tower 1, which was launched in 2003 as the first office tower in Dubai to offer freehold luxury offices to GCC nationals and expatriates, is set to become the first such tower to be ready for delivery. SABA Tower 2 and 3, launched in 2003 and 2004 respectively, are the first residential twin-towers in Dubai. SABA Tower 2 is scheduled to be complete by early November, 2006, while Tower 3 is expected to be ready for delivery by March 2007. www.menareport.com /en/business/193759   (650 words)

TVS Architects Design Landmark Tower in Dubai's New Central Business District Tower the beacon of Business Bay, a city within the city ATLANTA, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- TVS & Associates announced today that Dubai Properties, a division of Dubai Holding, has awarded the Atlanta-based architectural firm a project to design the landmark 51-story Vision Tower at Business Bay. The tower will feature a signature bent-glass facade made with transparent glazing that allows the "eternally lit" Vision Tower to be a beacon for Business Bay and a landmark for the region. Dubai Properties is responsible for the large projects including Dubai Healthcare City, the expansion of Dubai Media City and Dubai Internet City, and the $1.6 billion Jumeirah Beach Residence. www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-08-2006/0004316302&EDATE=   (369 words)

TVS Architects Design Landmark Tower in Dubai's New Central Business District Dubai is the second largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates after Abu Dhabi and is located on the Persian Gulf, southwest of Sharjah and northeast of Abu Dhabi. Dubai Properties is a member of Dubai Holding and operates with the express aim of conceiving large scale development projects and transforming that vision into reality. Dubai Properties is responsible for some of the regions largest projects including Dubai Healthcare City, the expansion of Dubai Media City and Dubai Internet City, and the $1.6 billion Jumeirah Beach Residence, the largest single-phase residential and commercial project in the world. www.ifma.org /daily_articles/2006/mar/03_16.cfm   (636 words)

Champions Tower - Overview - Dubai :: Gowealthy.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Experience life in the fast line with Champions Tower, a secure and gated community overlooking the landscaped greens and tracks of Dubai Sports City. Offering exceptional views to the front and rear, the tower is the height of luxury with attention given to detail and five star amenities. Dubai Sports City is a unique development bringing together a combination of sports, lifestyle, leisure, entertainment, commerce and enterprise. www.gowealthy.com /realestate/uae/dubai/championstower/index.asp   (213 words)

Khaleej Times Online - Burj Dubai tower set for Stage Two DUBAI — The foundation work of Burj Dubai tower has been completed in record 12 months at a cost of Dh54 million and the construction of the tower will commence on April 15. Explaining the scale of the project, Booth further said: “The Tower is the central core of the magnificent $20 billion (Dh 73 billion) Burj Dubai district and the new emerging Downtown Dubai. The tower's 192 piles have been constructed to depths of more than 50 metres and are bound together by a 3.7 metre thick concrete raft across 8,000 square metres, encompassing the tower's entire footprint.’’ www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/business/2005/March/business_March597.xml§ion=business   (506 words)

Dubai Property | Dubai Property, Dubai Real Estate, UAE Properties Real Estate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Dubai has unveiled plans for the world’s tallest building, the latest in the rush to aim for the altitude title. DUBAI — The ongoing World project might use solar air-conditioning and solar lighting in some of its “islands” if the new technology launched at Dubai Techno Park yesterday proves to be efficient and beneficial for the development, a top Nakheel official said. Dubai Bazaar - The Islamic Souq at Dubailand www.4dubaiproperty.com   (776 words)

Burj Dubai [Downtown Dubai] - Property Development - TEN Real Estate [UAE] Burj Dubai is set to be the world's tallest building and the centerpiece of the Gulf regions most prestigious urban development, entitled Downtown Dubai. The Burj Dubai Residence will be one the residential area of Downtown Dubai containing nine luxury freehold apartment towers with open water, calming greenery, state-of-the-art gyms, pools and spas. Architectural cues are taken from traditional buildings, including the Al-Bastakia neighbourhood of Bur Dubai and the residences of Sheikh Saeed Al-Maktoum and Mohammed Shareef Boukash – with textures that reflect the gypsum, clay or sarjool plastering used in the early twentieth century. realestate.theemiratesnetwork.com /developments/dubai/burj_dubai.php   (1279 words)

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Dubai tower to bring world's tallest structure to Middle East DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – For now, the world's tallest building-to-be is just a flower-shaped concrete tattoo on the desert sands, but its pilings are already in place, plunging 160 feet into the earth. The Persian Gulf city of Dubai has staked its fame on engineering audacity such as its vast archipelagoes of artificial holiday islands, and the Burj, Arabic for "tower," is one of its more extreme mega-projects. The tower owes its shape to American architect Adrian Smith, of the Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050330-1701-emirates-tallestskyscraper.html   (719 words)

Design Build Network - Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) and Dubai Mall Dubai is to build the world's largest retail development. Measuring over 5 million ft² in size, it will be located alongside Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower), which will be the world's tallest building when it is completed in 2007. The tower design is derived from the geometries of an indigenous desert flower, as well as incorporating patterns found within Islamic architecture. www.designbuild-network.com /projects/burj   (893 words)

Skyscrapers/Wolkenkratzer/Wolkenkrabbers/Grattes~ciel/Hochhauser/high-rise buildings Dubai, United Arab Emirates Dubai is the second largest of seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi being the largest). Dubai started out as a small fishing village until it was taken over by the Bani Yas tribe in the 1830s. Dubai has a sub tropical and arid climate, with temperatures between 10° and 48°. www.skyscraperpicture.com /dubai.htm   (837 words)

Grollo tower to go ahead, in Dubai - theage.com.au It would be a replica of the $1 billion high-tech tower proposed by Grocon for the Docklands precinct, but rejected by the Kennett Liberal government in 1999. It would be taller than the world's highest building - the Petronas Towers of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia - built in 1998 at a height of 452 metres, trumping the Sears Tower in Chicago that was built in 1974 at 442 metres. In a coup for the young Grocon director, Daniel Grollo, the Middle Eastern tower, to be known as "Burj Dubai", is planned to rise from a huge man-made island in the middle of a 22,000-apartment development that will encompass an area the size of Melbourne's Central Business District. www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/02/26/1046064104215.html   (394 words)

Aljazeera.Net - Tower to beat all towers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Part of a $20 billion project, the tower will be built at a rate of one floor a week. As for the height of the tower, "you have to guess," he said, as a mock elevator at the site displayed a button for the 189th floor. The Burj Dubai development is part of a huge construction drive, designed to consolidate the status of this Gulf emirate as a regional business, services and tourism hub. english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/BE24331F-56A6-4024-8106-0A8234068C71.htm   (614 words)

Aljazeera.Net - Asian workers riot in Dubai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) The violence, causing an estimated $1 million in damage, illustrated the growing unrest among foreign workers who are the linchpin of Dubai's building boom. The violence erupted on Tuesday night when some 2500 workers on the Burj Dubai tower and surrounding housing developments chased and beat security officers, then broke into temporary offices and smashed computers and destroyed about two dozen cars and construction machines, witnesses said. Dubai, one of seven emirates making up the UAE, hosts 300,000 South Asians working on temporary contracts in the construction field alone. english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/91C02709-1D7E-439F-B31E-F8AF2AB865EB.htm   (425 words)

BREITBART.COM - Workers Riot at Site of Dubai Skyscraper Some 2,500 workers who are building the Burj Dubai tower and surrounding housing developments chased and beat security officers Tuesday night, smashed computers and files in offices, and destroyed about two dozen cars and construction machines, witnesses said. The strikes and riots by Al Naboodah workers marred what otherwise appeared to be smooth construction of the Burj Dubai, which is to be a spire-shaped, stainless-steel-skinned tower expected to soar far beyond 100 stories. Emaar, the tower's Dubai-based developer, is keeping the final height a secret until the $900 million Burj is complete by 2008. www.breitbart.com /news/2006/03/22/D8GGPJJG3.html   (523 words)

Burj Dubai Tower Update: Science Fiction in the News The Burj Dubai tower in the United Arab Emirates is quietly progressing on its goal of being the tallest building in the world. Science fiction writers have created vast structures; for example, in Tower of Glass, a 1970 novel by Robert Silverberg, a six kilometer-high tower is constructed. See also the earlier article Burj Tower in Dubai to be World's Tallest Building. www.technovelgy.com /ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=428   (438 words)

Dubai tower on course to be world's tallest building "History Rising" is to be the slogan of Dubai Tower, the huge construction project that aims to become the world's tallest building on its completion in 2009. Currently, the world's tallest building is the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan, which stands at 509 metres; however Mr Smith's design is due to shatter that record. Although the exact height of the Burj Dubai is being kept a secret, it has been reported that Sheikh Muhammad's wish is that the 154-floor building sets a record that really lasts. www.rics.org /Builtenvironment/Buildingtypes/Tallbuildings/dubai_vtb110805.html   (449 words)

Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper - Finance & Business DUBAI: Pushing its bid to make its mark on the international map, booming Dubai has once again taken construction to the extreme by building what will become the world’s tallest tower. The foundation work for Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower), whose height remains a secret, was completed last month with 192 piles constructed to depths of more than 50 metres (164ft) and bound together by a thick concrete raft. Burj Dubai will tower over the adjacent Dubai Mall, said to become the world’s largest and due for completion in late 2007, a luxury hotel, high-rise apartment blocks, man-made lakes and landscaped parks, all cushioned in by a 3km boulevard. www.gulf-times.com /site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=35045&version=1&template_id=48&parent_id=28   (1286 words)

Contracting Finance Arranged for The Burj Dubai Tower - Zawya.com | Middle East Business News The final height of the tower is still shrouded in mist with rumours ranging from 700 to 900 metres. The Burj Dubai Tower, which will combine both residential and commercial space as well as a boutique hotel, is designed to rise upward in a series of spiralling steps as it reaches to the skies in an ever narrowing pinnacle. In addition to the Tower it will include Dubai Mall, the world's largest retail edifice; The Boulevard, a 3.5km long parade of internationally-styled buildings; The Residences, exclusive up-market apartments; and the stylish antiquity of The Old Town, all set in an idyllic landscape of gardens and lakes. www.zawya.com /story.cfm?id=ZAWYA20050417094843   (589 words)

New Scientist Breaking News - Construction of world's tallest tower to begin The new tower's unique, three-sided design will ascend in a series of stages, around a supportive central core and boast a total of 160 floors, accessible via a series of double-decker elevators. Besides beating the Taipei Tower, which stands at 508 metres tall, Burj Dubai will also be considerably taller than the CN tower in Toronto, Canada, which stands at 553 metres tall though is without a multiple floor structure. The tower will be used for offices, residential apartments, hotels and shops and will be surrounded at its base by a man-made lake. www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn6781   (488 words)

Real Estate For Sale in Dubai - Available Properties - Viviun the Leader in International Property Listings Marina Crown In Dubai Marina - 1,2,3,4 And 5 Bed Apartments - Freehold Properties for All Nationalities Marina Crown is a 51 storey residential tower being constructed along the Beach Road across from the Dubai International Marine Club. International City Apartments In Dubai - The Residential District - The International City’s residential district is set in 300 hectares of ideal residential atmosphere, spread across the development. The Icon Tower In Dubai - Developing the "New Dubai" area is being more and more, the main concern of Dubai's government - modern infrastructure is taking place in the area and this is exactly where our project is located. www.viviun.com /Real_Estate/United_Arab_Emirates/Dubai   (611 words)

BBC NEWS | Business | Samsung to build tallest building The concrete and steel tower will be part of an $8bn(£4.2bn) 500-acre project in the United Arab Emirates. Construction work on the Burj tower will begin in January, and when completed it will be taller than the world's current highest building, Taiwan's 508-metre TFC 101 building. Dubai is proud of its adventurous construction projects, such as the seven-star Burj al-Arab hotel which has already become an iconic structure. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/4081885.stm   (259 words)

Propmart.net - Dubai Arch Tower - Project Profile Dubai Arch is a unique architectural concept, dominated by an arch shape that cuts across the azure sky. The design of Dubai Arch accentuates the rectangular elements of the façade with a curvilinear arc that sweep across the length of the building. The tower is located in an emerging metropolis of high rise towers and luxury residential buildings. www.propmart.net /proj_profile.asp?id=145   (200 words)

Business In Dubai - Emaar awards Burj Dubai Tower contract to Samsung Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) The signature concrete and steel Tower is set to become the tallest structure in the world and will be the centerpiece of Emaar’s prestigious Downtown Dubai development. The Burj Dubai tower is part of the US$8 billion 500-acre Downtown Dubai Development, which on completion will become the Middle East’s finest urban development in terms of design and lifestyle. The Burj Dubai and The Dubai Mall are part of the Middle East region’s finest urban development, the Burj Dubai District. www.businessindubai.com /content/view/21/2   (618 words)

Grand Hyatt Dubai, Grand Hyatt Dubai information Dubai is fairly unique in that its population consists mainly of expatriates, with UAE Nationals (Emiratis) constituting the minority. It is common practice among Dubai employers to hold on to employees' passports for the duration of the employment contract. Dubai Internet City, now combined with Dubai Media City as part of TECOM (Dubai Technology, Electronic Commerce and Media Free Zone Authority) is one such enclave and houses IT companies such as EMC Corporation, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM, and media organisations such as MBC, CNN, Reuters and AP. www.dubaii.co.uk /GrandHyattDubai   (1776 words)

Jumana Tower - Overview - Dubai :: Gowealthy.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) A trove of luxury, opulence and style; Jumana Tower - Dubai Pearl is a picturesque dwelling for the crème de la crème, epitomizing dreamy beaches with scintillating sun rendezvousing with the unsullied sands and the cool evening breeze beckoning sultry nights. Supplementing this inspiring view are the exemplary educational facilities located just around the corner, making Jumana Tower- Dubai Pearl one of the most exciting and attractive residential venues within the entire region. The transportation infrastructure at the Jumana Tower - Dubai Pearl is strategically located to provide easy access from the adjoining Sheikh Zayed Road via free-flow traffic interchanges, and a direct entry from Sufouh Road. www.gowealthy.com /realestate/uae/dubai/jumanatower/index.asp   (195 words)

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