Well, most of the skinny res towers are all crammed into a tiny area in the marina so chances are you'll buy an apartment on the 80th floor and still have no views :haha:
Instead I'd love to own one in this 360m res tower which'll probably have some amazing views and also be near a metro station.

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I like this one.... it will be nice in Dubai cos it's a bit different from most of their stuff. But at the same time, I think it's as ugly as sin. That said, I probably wouldn't mind it in my city.

Its even kind of cool without the siding.

Wow Dubai's skyline really looks like a traditional cluster from that angle, pretty cool. Gets me anticipating when much more of Dubai is complete and there will be several well developed massive skylines, without the eyesore holes that exist right now.

For me, it fits perfect in Dubai.
This and the rose will create a better skyline!

Well, all those holes on the left of the index will be built up with towers. In fact behind where the photo was taken (burj dubai) will be even more towers. It'll take many years before it gets any way dense though since towers are not built in a cluster and then outwards but when an area is designated for highrises they'll be built in random locations until there are enough of them to create density.

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I think The Index, despite its name, will make for one of Dubai's best background buildings.

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Very nice Malec, Thanks for calling. The building is getting its high. I see too concrete on it, not more a tendency in architecture up to date, but great. considering the position of it, it would be a good office use one. The pics are very nice. Let's see how high comes. BTW, have you photos from BurjDubai updated??? It is now more than half. I have only photos from the initial phase. Maybe there is a topic here. Thanks for sharing... :) :) :)

^^ They're not my photos. I just reposted them from SSC. They belong to Imre

dayum this thing is big, despite its size it will make a great background building your right..

it's kind of massive already! :tup:

This one has the coolest concrete form lift system.

I hope that they're not going to apply paint on the concrete.

You know what... I totally agree with you. Usually I'm not a big fan of these concrete massings, but it the glass is nice I think that it would actually look good.

And who said that the concrete will be painted? Everything will be covered in cladding.

The renderings show a treatment in white to those concrete structures, but none is said about paint. So don't worry people here. The bldg at all will be very nice when finished, although is still 70's architecture. Cladding could be, maybe some new materials as plastic panels or some ceramics. I do not know. :slob: