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I'm not a fan of heights but the view from the top floor should be impressive...

 

http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/08/burj_dubai_1009.jpg

 

More David Hobcote shots in the link below:

 

http://gizmodo.com/5039300/real-sim-city-comes-to-life-in-the-desert

 

One of the houses on those little islands has been built too, still too close to the neighbours but it's a start I guess :)

 

Wow, that' amazing...

 

My dad is designing one of the islands. My mum keeps saying I should go and work in his office there. No thanks!

 

Yeh like Gaz, can i go instead then... :-)

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Cool. My brother stopped by Dubai on the way to his honeymoon in the Maldives. Whilst there he jumped in a cab and asked to go see the Burj. The cab drivers just basically drive onto the building site its on and you can go have a look. Phot's and video of it look impressive.

 

Apparently they are going to be building something even taller, also in Dubai

 

Mark

The Al Burj apparently, It could be up to 50% taller :blink:

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It is one impressive building but then i think the whole of Dubai is!!

 

I spent a week there back in March and its and incredible place! Really expensive to stay there but when you know people who live their and work for emirates it works out quite cheap!!:D

 

And if your a keen petrolhead you will be forever turning around to look at the nice cars out there!

 

Also if any of your wives or partners like shopping take them there ive never seen shopping malls so big!!

 

If anybody ever goes i would recommend a good night out in the jumeriah hotel {the one thats shaped like a wave} top night out!!

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My dad is designing one of the islands. My mum keeps saying I should go and work in his office there. No thanks!

 

is that the man made sand island's shaped as palm trees??

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you gotta hand it to them - they certainly know how to build big. it looks big enough as it is, until you look at the "small looking" skyscrappers near its base :blink:

 

Amazing whats possible when:

 

Money is no object

 

Can afford to get the best engineers and architects flown over

 

Labour is cheap as chips as they are all afghanis, pakistanis,

indians - etc that get paid a pittance for working in those horrid conditions for 12 hr shifts - health and safety is no where near a concern as you have hear.

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Actually money is an object, a big one. Their rampant consumerism has come back to haunt them, and these sorts of debts will shake the financial stability of the developed world. I wonder if they'll wrap the "For Sale" sign around it, or drape it top to bottom? :)

It's high, but it's no Taj Mahal or St. Paul's.

 

Well said, This whole development will and is having massive ramifications on the global recovery, NYSE dropped over 100 points yesterday on the back of the unpaid debt

 

People are leaving on mass from Dubai and without Abu Dhabi funding it will go into melt down and could become one of the biggest real estate mistakes ever

 

As for the building, it is very impressive in its size but I have to agree I would much rather look at the magnificence of a St Paul, or York Minster, real craftsmen producing historic buildings, this building will only be remembered as long as its the tallest which with the growth of China will not be for long

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Well said, This whole development will and is having massive ramifications on the global recovery, NYSE dropped over 100 points yesterday on the back of the unpaid debt

 

People are leaving on mass from Dubai and without Abu Dhabi funding it will go into melt down and could become one of the biggest real estate mistakes ever

 

As for the building, it is very impressive in its size but I have to agree I would much rather look at the magnificence of a St Paul, or York Minster, real craftsmen producing historic buildings, this building will only be remembered as long as its the tallest which with the growth of China will not be for long

 

He is spot on with everything he says :thumbs:

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Actually money is an object, a big one. Their rampant consumerism has come back to haunt them, and these sorts of debts will shake the financial stability of the developed world. I wonder if they'll wrap the "For Sale" sign around it, or drape it top to bottom? :)

It's high, but it's no Taj Mahal or St. Paul's.

 

you misunderstand, money WAS no object when they were building that, now the economical situation has u-turned for the worse which is why they are experiencing a real estate crash of atleast 50%

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