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.

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.

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If only they had gone for a better design, which seems an afterthought here. But I suppose it's to be compared to other towers, and not skyscrapers like the Burj.
Remove the "dress", and I might like it better.


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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.

I agree. I would rather see this in a city like Tokyo or Shenzhen where there is already a dense jungle of urbanity surrounding it. But it is what it is. Maybe overtime as the area fills up, opinions could change, but can this all be sustained given the turbulent nature of that region as a whole. But at least its not the Kingdom Tower. At least Dubai has towers that can kinda give it a cool urban effect.

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.

So... this tower is not really a building? More it is like the Seattle Space Needle: an icon for the city.
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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?

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.

I would. But only if I had a Rolls Royce, was a project manager, and lived in Dubai. I sure as hell wouldn't want to be a worker who is building this though.... :runaway:

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.

The migrants are only there so they can do things like build these giant buildings. If they didn't throw their money at these projects they would just kick them all out.

Boring design. Especially for a structure so fragile looking in that area of the world. But optimistic nonetheless...

I wouldn't, either. I like not dying on the job.

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...

Yeah dont see it happening. The other foot is starting to come down on these countries.

Thank you.

Once again more of the worst urban planning from Dubai. I'm still trying to figure out how one accesses the plaza to get to the tower from the roundabout circling it. There's no entrance anywhere I can see. If you're meant to walk the mile long wind swept plaza to get to it where do you disembark? This whole thing seems like an ill thought out waste of resources and energy. I agree it won't be financially viable unless of course it is intended to be more of an observation tower a la CN Tower.

Edit: what are the levitating orbs with the crowds gathered around them? This looks more like a movie concept for X-Men Apocalypse than a legitimate building design.

^^exactly. i don't mind the plaza from an aesthetic point of view... but what nobody seems to realize is that its HALF A KILOMETER WIDE!!!!! Imagine a field of open concrete the width of central park... nobody is gonna wanna go out there.. i imagine they'll end up building a walkway or something underneath.

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Wow it sure is ugly, but impressive. Like a permanent Christmas Tree.

When I saw this in Skyscraper Construction, I thought "Is this really gonna be built?". I'm somewhat alright with the wires, if they are structurally vital, although they do add a weird visual mark on Dubai, which is already filled with outlandish projects. The shap looks arihgt, although I don't see how living in a hotel all the way up there would be very fun :yuck: How fast would the Evelator have to be? How well culd they get plumbing/wiring all the way up there? Just wondering, since this is wild. :runaway:

The Tower at Dubai Creek to be 100m higher than Burj Khalifa

Dubai Planning its Next Tallest Tower

What is The Tower's exact height?

928m = 3044.62 which is 3,045 ft when rounded. Sig figs!

Calatrava... Better be ok with massive costs overruns. Also, what's this gonna cost every year to maintain?

Dubai Kicks Off Construction of World’s Tallest Building

Any updates?

Guess not.

Precisely! The weather is always so extremely hotter during Summer. It will be so miserable weather in Dubai.

This thing sure looks ugly. If the middle eastern oil powers want to build their super-tall trophy skyscrapers they might as well make them look aesthetically pleasing. Like the Burj Khalifa's height was completely unnecessary but at least it wasn't just some stick rising out of the desert.

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Now that is a fat stick !
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Dubai Creek Tower vs Burj Khalifa
 

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Plenty of recent updates here:
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- Wow, that is an impressive foundation.

Not sure is I like it or not, but it would make a great centerpiece for Tom Cruise's next "Mission Impossible" movie!

Can you just imagine now, how Tom Cruise will slide down the cables??

Or better yet, Dwayne Johnson's (The Rock) "Skyscraper 2 " movie?

How he will have to get his family to slide down the cable too?

or even better yet.......:P

Why is the height listed as 3k feet and not 4.3k on this thing?

Probably the guy that did the diagram got overly excited... :shrug:

Calatrava? big mistake.

How come?

Calatrava is notorious for going enormously overbudget, delays, last-minute design changes, and his overall incompetence as an architect. His final product is usually subpar and it's not uncommon for his buildings to start falling apart due to their absurd designs; he's been sued by multiple clients.

Either money really is no object for these Emirate developers or bankrupting them will truly be his greatest accomplishment.

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I thought this was a pipe dream....good grief. :yuck:

Given their ambition, I'll say it may still be a pipe dream. A tower over 1 kilometer tall?! I'll believe it when I see it.

They’re really building this in the middle of nowhere.