DUBAI | Lighthouse tower | 1,319 FT / 402 M | 64 FLOORS | ON HOLD

[Thskyscraper]

Look good IMO. I like the detail that the tower has, gives it a plus.

[DUBAI2015]

Looks like if the Index and the John Hancock center had babies.



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[JManc]

i like this one.

[KevinFromTexas]

Nice. It almost looks like twin Transamerica Pyramids leaning towards each other. Take one of the above renderings, (especially the last one malec posted), and scroll it so that you only see about the top half of the tower.

[Carpetking]

looks great,i like it

[M.K.]

Is there 2 equal threads for the same tower??? Seems to be

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[observer]

What's old is new....this is same floor plate diagram of Montgomery Wards office building (now condos) in Chicago. Brilliant design when it was conceived (decades ago). I'm surprised it has taken this long for someone to use it again.

[malec]

From Imre:

Originally Posted by Imre

24/Aug/2007

Lighthouse Tower

soil testing , they didnt know the name of the building but the clients are DIFC and Atkins

[M II A II R II K]

There still seems to be a delay in construction. There doesn't appear to be much activity taking place there now.

Nice looking design BTW.

[malec]

^^ That was just some initial soil test. Construction is to begin in November or so they say.

[FLBlake]

What does a no carbon building actually mean? How do you do that? I didn't know carbon was bad.

[MolsonExport]

This one is one of the better one's to come out of Dubai

[M II A II R II K]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

This one is one of the better one's to come out of Dubai

Yea I was thinking that. Would be cool if we got one like that too over here.

[malec]

It looks like this has started. See that core in the top centre of the picture? Well the lighthouse plot is across the road on the left and looks like there's a big hole over there. I won't move the thread though until we have a better picture of what's going on.

[M II A II R II K]

This should be one that'll be great to watch, particularly if they use those colours.

[malec]

Nice pictures from Nader at picasa.

[malec]

New height.

Originally Posted by Stephan23

Height is 402 meters with 64 floors !

Source:

Thank you for your e-mail.

Last month, one of our Editors has spoken with Shaun Killa, a member of
Atkins. They have given him the information. It seems for us the best and most
recent source we have at the moment.


Kind regards,

Emporis Data Research Team
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=...edarabemirates

Also piling is going on in full swing according to Imre anyway. He said he couldn't get pictures. Maybe there are some more nice aerials on flickr.com

[BrownTown]

Thats a terrible idea IMO. The whole wind turbine thing makes no sense. The amount of energy required to build this massive building will be more then those turbines will ever produce. Would make alot more sense to just not build the top half and build some windmills somewhere else if what you really cared about is the environment. And since Dubai clearly doesn't give a crap about the environment they should just build the whole thing all the way up.

[gttx]

So the market slowdown hasn't affected plans for this tower? That would be awesome....this has to be my favorite project (well, maybe second to the Burj) going up in Dubai.

[Zerton]

Finally something from Dubai that I like. The engineers could take some tips from the Bahrain World Trade Center:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/obscure...na/2139274930/

I saw a documentary and getting the blades in place on vertical supports was more challenging than originally thought.