DUBAI | The Tower at Dubai Creek Harbour | 928 M / 3,045 FT | ON HOLD
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no habitable structure should be cable-stayed. i hope this design is replaced with something that conveys less weakness.
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From the WSJ. Posting it because some don't have a subscription. Sharing is caring.
I gotta say, at least they are agressive about the time table. When they say mega tall, they make it happen. ============ https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/...0410080059.jpg Quote:
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super tall, but no interaction whatsoever with the urban fabric. Another wind-swept (sun-fried?) plaza, that will one day, once the novelty wears off, could cease to draw much pedestrian traffic.
Personally I prefer when the skyscraper is right smack in the thick of it. Like the Empire State Building. The extreme thinness of the building has me doubting about its financial merits. |
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Kinda looks like a communication tower but with a wedding dress. |
It'll be fun to see another Dubai mega-development take shape, particularly given the speedy timeline of construction.
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So... this tower is not really a building? More it is like the Seattle Space Needle: an icon for the city.
. I do like it, the stay cables are elegant, and it will be an awesome observation deck. |
Looks to me like a copy of NASA's SCAT-15F SST, the most aerodynamically efficient SST ever designed... back in the early '60's
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Sun-fried is right. Who'd want to stand in a plaza in 100F weather?
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The 5th rendering in that rendering set that NYGuy posted: If they made the whole tower like that, in a way that kinda resembles a Dubai twist on the Ping Centre (Shenzhen), than we would have something interesting. There's no question that the Burj Dubai is an amazing feat of engineering and architecture, but this design just seems odd. I'd almost IMO think that its to out there even for Dubai. A Kingdom style tower would make sense as a centerpiece, but this seems like a ego stick really. Doesn't look right even with the master plan renderings.
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More power to them. OSHA would flip given some of the working conditions we've heard about in Dubai. American workers have the good life. |
What a colossal waste of money. Will likely sit largely empty just like Burj was. Would that these sheikhs considered pitching in with the huge effort to settle desperate migrants or battle Daesh, but no, better to throw money at these monuments to ego and indulgence.
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Boring design. Especially for a structure so fragile looking in that area of the world. But optimistic nonetheless...
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I am not a fan, at all, of the oulandish urbanism of Dubai for the rich, it is just not my kind of city. Looking at the renderings, I don't like a bit of all the urbanism surrounding this tower, made of sterile buildings atop parking podiums. Also, even if generally I like Calatrava works, from a aesthetic perspective, I also find that many times it is overdesigned.
All that said, I don't get all the hate this tower is having. That it is to thin? it is an observation tower, it does not have to be thick. A sun fried plaza? this thing is supposed to be a tourist attraction, that plaza should be full of people. That looks to "fragile" and the critics to the cables? I actually think that those cables looks very good, they are a structural neccessity, but made architectural, the way he used the staying cables is what makes this tower unique and iconic. From a distance, they look pretty good and prety elegant. When you are inside the "sun fried plaza", bellow all those cables, looking up at that net above you with the sky, the thing must be breathtaking. No interaction with the urban fabric? oh, come on! the urban fabric surrounding this tower is just awful, there is nothing to interact with, that urban fabric doesn't even have interaction with itself. The only thing worth to be seen there would be this tower. |
Blech. Dubai has had plenty of better unbuilt designs before. Here's hoping some of them are revived. This? Not so much...
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Yeah dont see it happening. The other foot is starting to come down on these countries.
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