January 25, 200718 yr wired has a fun little slideshow of projects: http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos26/2007/01/burj_dubai.html
February 4, 200718 yr Author move over dubai: Celebrity Architects Reveal a Daring Cultural Xanadu for the Arab World http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/01/arts/Hadid600.jpg Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid’s design for a performing arts center for an island in Abu Dhabi. By HASSAN FATTAH Published: February 1, 2007 ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 31 — In this land of big ambition and deep pockets, planners on Wednesday unveiled designs for an audacious multibillion-dollar cultural district whose like has never been seen in the Arab world. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/01/31/arts/design/0201-cul-web-ISLANDmap.jpg The New York Times The designs presented here in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates and one of the world’s top oil producers, are to be built on an island just off the coast and include three museums designed by the celebrity architects Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando, as well as a sprawling, spaceshiplike performing arts center designed by Zaha Hadid. Mr. Gehry’s building is intended for an Adu Dhabi branch of the Guggenheim Museum featuring contemporary art and Mr. Nouvel’s for a classical museum, possibly an outpost of the Louvre Museum in Paris. Mr. Ando’s is to house a maritime museum reflecting the history of the Arabian gulf... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/arts/design/01isla.html?_r=1&oref=slogin editorial on bldgblog: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/desert-elevator.html
February 4, 200718 yr The pics and info on that blog are really good. I watched the show on the Burj the other night, try to catch it if you can. What I want to know is, who is buying all of these condos?
February 8, 200718 yr Anybody wanna work in Dubai? $60/hr doesn't sound too bad. And by the looks of it, they sure could use a few decent planners. http://www.workgateways.com/Job.10162
February 8, 200718 yr That's all well and good - too bad about their human rights issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_rights_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
February 8, 200718 yr Yeah I've read where Dubai is pretty bad with human rights. I remember a few months ago when all the construction workers started to riot because of the extremely poor working conditions. I've also heard Americans are not allowed to own any property in Dubai. $60/hr is a lot of money for a planner, but it definatley comes at a price of selling your soul and rights.
February 25, 200718 yr $60/hr is a lot of money for a planner, but it definatley comes at a price of selling your soul and rights. Planners with private firms can charge 145 an hour here...and they're still cheaper than lawyers.
February 25, 200718 yr $60/hr is a lot of money for a planner, but it definatley comes at a price of selling your soul and rights. Planners with private firms can charge 145 an hour here...and they're still cheaper than lawyers. There's a huge difference for what a Company chargers per hour for services versus what pay is. For Example my hourly rate that my company charges for me is 220/hour. Needless to say I don't make 450k a year.
February 26, 200718 yr Its not your company, either. 60 an hour is really good, i'm just saying you can make a lot of money here too :]
February 26, 200718 yr For Example my hourly rate that my company charges for me is 220/hour. Needless to say I don't make 450k a year. But to be fair, NOBODY serves up a Cleveland Steamer quite like the pope.
February 26, 200718 yr For Example my hourly rate that my company charges for me is 220/hour. Needless to say I don't make 450k a year. But to be fair, NOBODY serves up a Cleveland Steamer quite like the pope. Believe it or not, there's a large technology load and other overhead associated with that industry
February 26, 200718 yr Christ. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 26, 200718 yr For Example my hourly rate that my company charges for me is 220/hour. Needless to say I don't make 450k a year. But to be fair, NOBODY serves up a Cleveland Steamer quite like the pope. Believe it or not, there's a large technology load and other overhead associated with that industry And if not properly administered, you've got a veritable shit storm on your hands.
February 26, 200718 yr This is vastly turning into the Boomtown Dumbai thread. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 8, 200718 yr On Discovery Channel right now: Mega Builders - Fantasy Islands All about the Palm
May 16, 200718 yr The Lighthouse: An Innovative Green Skyscraper 05.15.07 Justin Thomas, Virginia onTreehugger.com The Lighthouse is another innovative green skyscraper to be constructed in Dubai. For energy generation, it will have three enormous 225 kilowatt wind turbines (29 meters in diameter), and 4000 photovoltaic panels on the south facing façade. To optimize performance and operational periods, the turbines have windward directional wind vanes or limited yaw. Designed by the Atkins group, the 400-meter office tower aspires to reduce its total energy consumption by up to 65% and water consumption by up to 40%. Full article and pictures available here: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/the_lighthouse.php
May 18, 200718 yr Author well now. nice find. that one finally got my attention in a good way. that kind of tower could end up the norm in a lot of places.
May 18, 200718 yr I echo Musky on the Discovery (Science) channel Mega Builders program. No matter your opinion about the (several) projects, one has to admit, there are some pretty impressive engineering methods being used in Dubai
June 22, 200717 yr Meet the first resident of Dubai's palm-shaped man-made island 22 June 2007 Author Unknown Dailymail.co.uk Four years ago there was nothing here but unbroken sea. Now there's Andrew Dukes and his luxury mansion - sitting on a palm-shaped, man-made island - the first of about 100 houses to open here. "I got exactly what I paid for and I'm very happy with it," said Dukes, 43, a tanned Englishman who just moved into his colossal home on Palm Jumeirah, Dubai's greatest-yet construction project. View full article and pictures at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-463694/Meet-resident-Dubais-palm-shaped-man-island.html
June 22, 200717 yr Lets sure hope a tsnumai or some other diaster doesn't happen over there...cause all of that area would be screwed BIG TIME!
June 28, 200717 yr Lets sure hope a tsnumai or some other diaster doesn't happen over there...cause all of that area would be screwed BIG TIME! If I'm not mistaken, Dubai is pretty well sheltered from tsunamis and such. Both by being in the Arabian Gulf (never call it the Persian Gulf on the western side) and by its location in same. It goes back a long way as a trading nexus.
June 28, 200717 yr http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_02/palmAP2206_468x262.jpg Three cheers for "density."
June 28, 200717 yr my what green grass! time to play catch up with the Al-Jones'! Looks like someone needs a new sandmower.
June 28, 200717 yr >Three cheers for "density." Esp since virtually all of the home and condo owners are non-natives, it's going to be rare that a lot of people are around at the same time.
June 30, 200717 yr Shoot... I see sidewalks :D If I had that much money, I'd build a Chipotle inside my house. I'd never have a reason to step outside anyway!
July 22, 200717 yr Author drudge news -- today is the day the burj became the tallest building in the world :-o Dubai tower becomes world's tallest building: developers Sat Jul 21, 4:42 AM ET DUBAI (AFP) - Burj Dubai, a tower rising in the booming Gulf emirate, has become the tallest building in the world at 512.1 metres (1,680 feet), surpassing Taiwan's Taipei 101 which is 508 metres (1,667 feet) tall, developers Emaar said Saturday. Burj Dubai, or Dubai Tower, now has 141 storeys, more than any other building in the world, Emaar Properties said in a statement. The skyscraper, scheduled for completion in 2008, is one of a string of grandiose projects taking shape in Dubai, which is part of the United Arab Emirates.
July 22, 200717 yr My friend Rogier lives in Dubai, he said all the locals hate the new projects because of their inconveniences. I wonder how much political clout residents have in new development; my guess is very little.
August 6, 200717 yr Author hoot mon! Hooters Dubai plans in Middle East NOT deflated after all Nadia Gergis August 06, 2007 07:52 AM FLORIDA, 6 Aug. 2007, (Arabisto.com): Atlanta Ga.-based Hooters of America Inc. will be opening up a location in Dubai after all. According to Harry Grindrod, director of Hooters European Franchising, the company still intends to open a Dubai location in the Middle East. "We are still planning on it," Grindrod said in an email to Arabisto.com. "The problem is that the present contractor can't give us a good timeline for completion." http://www.arabisto.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=715
September 14, 200717 yr Author taa daa, now they are number one! Dubai tower now world's tallest free-standing structure Sep 13 08:24 AM US/Eastern http://img.breitbart.com/images/2007/9/13/070913122359.s0ukm6mr/SGE.UBB63.130907122033.photo00.photo.jpg The world's tallest building, still under construction in the booming Gulf emirate of Dubai, has become the world's tallest free-standing structure, its developers said on Thursday. The Burj Dubai tower is now 555 metres (1,831.5 feet) tall and has surpassed the 553-metre- (1,824.9-feet) CN Tower in Toronto, Canada, which held the record for the world's tallest free-standing structure since 1976, developers Emaar Properties said in a statement... http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070913122359.s0ukm6mr&show_article=1&image=large
September 14, 200717 yr One cool thing about Dubai is that people here don't fit the regular stereo type for a Middle Eastern city state. The ideology of the people seem to be focused on economic development and not so extreme on religion. Gives me hope for the middle east, due to the many things once only considered to be in western culture are now popping up everywhere throughout the city.
September 14, 200717 yr One cool thing about Dubai is that people here don't fit the regular stereo type for a Middle Eastern city state. The ideology of the people seem to be focused on economic development and not so extreme on religion. Gives me hope for the middle east, due to the many things once only considered to be in western culture are now popping up everywhere throughout the city. except for that whole human rights thing.........
September 14, 200717 yr Well, they can forget about sprawl. It's all up up and up! :P You can have vertical sprawl...and IMO, that is what Dubai is experiencing. Even though they are building tall buildings...I don't think it's being done in a sustainable manner. Just some food for thought.
September 14, 200717 yr ^ WTF. Talk about a lack of scale! But good god! ^^ True, most are not pedestrian oriented either.
September 14, 200717 yr BTW, does anyone have figures on Dubai's increasing population density? I can only imagine how much it is going to jump when this beast is filled...
September 14, 200717 yr I've heard that a good chunk of these buildings sit vacant...both commercial and residential properties. This growth is not market driven, but rather driven by some VERY wealthy people with money to burn.
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