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Imre · #**5341** Posted **Dec 22, 2007, 6:09 PM**

Greetings from Dubai

I found some postcards of the Burj Dubai today

small mistake on the 2nd postcard , there is the Dubai Towers, Istanbul

laro3 · #**5342** Posted **Dec 22, 2007, 8:17 PM**

that post card is bullshit the sears tower is not the accurate height.........

Lecom · #**5343** Posted **Dec 22, 2007, 8:38 PM**

Wow, those postcards are quite amateur. A nice and admirable attempt, but they should at least learn to spell "contrasts" right if they strive to present themselves as a world city.

Aleks · #**5344** Posted **Dec 22, 2007, 11:03 PM**

The second one and last one look really crappy. I could do something like that in Photoshop.

The picture with the Sears Tower just makes the people who made the card seem silly and it shows that he or she (or they) have no idea of how to measure. It's also a sign that whoever made the card is trying to cheat and make the Sears Tower look smaller than the Petronas.

HA! Cantrasts!?

flo001v · #**5345** Posted **Dec 22, 2007, 11:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by laro3

that post card is bullshit the sears tower is not the accurate height.........

That's exactly what I was thinking, total BS. They downsized the Sears Tower to make it appear shorter than it is.

Dac150 · #**5346** Posted **Dec 23, 2007, 3:27 AM**

What garbage that the Sears Tower is made to look that small.

firstcranialnerve · #**5347** Posted **Dec 23, 2007, 4:04 AM**

Yeah, Sears doesn't really get any justice. If Sears was built in Asia it would be touted as 'bigger' than even taipei 101 and would never recieve such bs injustice. Fortunately, the legitimacy of our society in Chicago is not based on braggin' rights long spear topped towers made by abused and underpaid labor...

TONY MONTANA · #**5348** Posted **Dec 23, 2007, 5:07 AM**

they are not official post codes just copies !!! that you can buy from a crappy market

i will post the official emaar post card later today

in reality all buildings are small compared to the big BD !!!!

PIZ · #**5349** Posted **Dec 23, 2007, 8:22 AM**

That really ticked me off seeing Sears downsized like that. They knocked off a good 100 feet and made it look retarded, while all the other buildings look atleast sub-normal? This is a marketing ploy, but what I don't understand is why downsize a building compared to the Burj when Burj is tall enough to sell itself already?

GO_UAE · #**5350** Posted **Dec 23, 2007, 9:04 AM**

>.> ermm ! ok so its not Pro of them posting wrong info, but anything left of the BD doesnt really matter so !

joking , calm down !

Imre · #**5351** Posted **Dec 23, 2007, 10:23 AM**

23/December/2007

Burj Dubai

Imre · #**5352** Posted **Dec 23, 2007, 10:25 AM**

23/December/2007

Burj Dubai

kalikidd05 · #**5353** Posted **Dec 23, 2007, 11:11 AM**

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Imre · #**5354** Posted **Dec 23, 2007, 3:08 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by TONY MONTANA

they are not official post codes just copies !!! that you can buy from a crappy market

i will post the official emaar post card later today

in reality all buildings are small compared to the big BD !!!!

what does copy mean??

every big shop selling the same postcards, Mall of the Emirates, Ibn Battuta,Mercato etc...

Anyway those are also copyright protected cards, owner is the www.me-images.com

Emaar has an own card , that is free

phillyskyline · #**5355** Posted **Dec 23, 2007, 4:03 PM**

I love that last shot! Thanx for all the updates.

Alliance · #**5356** Posted **Dec 23, 2007, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by GO_UAE

>.> ermm ! ok so its not Pro of them posting wrong info, but anything left of the BD doesnt really matter so !

joking , calm down !

Well, would you be upset if Burj was shown to be shorter than The Chicago Spire in a future "Chicago feels the need to promote its image" postcard?

Its simply not professional.

Lecom · #**5357** Posted **Dec 23, 2007, 7:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Aleks0o01

The second one and last one look really crappy. I could do something like that in Photoshop.

They should seriously consider using SSP diagrams. It's a win-win situation - they get professional-looking, attractive and correct postcards while the illustrators here get a couple hundred bucks each. That type of money should be no problem when you are developing a 10 billion+ project, but yields greatly improved publicity and image.

Lecom · #**5358** Posted **Dec 23, 2007, 7:32 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alliance

Well, would you be upset if Burj was shown to be shorter than The Chicago Spire in a future "Chicago feels the need to promote its image" postcard?

Its simply not professional.

Yep, shortening Sears on there was definitely an ignorance-based fuckup, not a deliberate underplaying of a competitor. When you're beating out other contenders by about twice in height, there is no need to "cut down" your opponent by some 50 meters.

zagreb · #**5359** Posted **Dec 24, 2007, 8:08 AM**

Hi guys, have'nt posted in a while. Just wondering about the steel section, we see the out side steel being done, do you think it will have a stronger steel core where the elevators will be ? I would like to see them have the elevators reach the 189th floor.

Do you think Nakheel down sized the Al Burj to 1050 meters just to play head games with Emaar ?

Imre · #**5360** Posted **Dec 24, 2007, 10:24 AM**

small gift from Dubai for everybody, Merry Christmas !

24/December/2007

Burj Dubai from my favourite places