Burj Dubai Updates? - Page 52

Aleks · #**1021** Posted **Sep 30, 2007, 12:25 AM**

What camera do you use Old Town Resident and Imre? And how many mega-pixles does it have?

I wish that less pictures were shown!! Not all people have fast internet! If somebody could at least please try to provide some details about the tower then maybe there will be something to talk about other than just saying" great shots" or "wow that thing is huge."

Maybe try to talk about problems on the tower, things that are good. FACTS!

On the discovery channel they said this tower is only going to have 1 ballroom. Is this true? Because I don't think all the snauty rich girls that turn 16 are going to get their party in the Burl Dubai because there's only 1 ballroom.

LoverOfDubai · #**1022** Posted **Sep 30, 2007, 5:53 AM**

Regarding the ballroom, I think one is enough.
First of all, the ballroom will be in the Armani Hotel. That makes sense. But would it make sense to put a ballroom in the residential area, in the office area, on the observation deck, or at the commercial areas on the bottom? No.
And the Armani Hotel, I believe will be a top-class hotel. Usually, the top of the top do not have a lot of ballrooms/public party places. The cheaper the hotel gets (while still being fairly wealthy) the number of ballrooms/banquet halls goes up.

I must add this disclaimer: I know nothing about hotels and I am just saying this from what I would think would be true.

And also, I am sure there are a lot of other places in Dubai for people to go, or at least there will be in the future.

old town resident · #**1023** Posted **Sep 30, 2007, 11:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by LoverOfDubai

Old Town Resident, I did a search for the Old Town Forum. I could not find it. Can you provide a link to it here please? Thank you.

Try this.........

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...136776&page=21

AltinD · #**1024** Posted **Sep 30, 2007, 8:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Canadian Mind

Wait, what?

There is no way in hell the spire will be above the clouds in a thunderstorm. In it, at 2650 feet? Probably, but no way in hell above it. I've read of cases where thunderstorm clouds peak at 70 000 feet and have seen one with my own eyes of a cloud at 50 000 feet. The norm is about 20-30 000 feet, atleast 10 times Burj Dubai's height.

now, I'm not going to say lightning wont strike the sides more often than the top, as I wasn't the one that researched the local weather patterns... but I will say that the design is accounting for conditions outside what i would consider normal for tropical regions (from an aviation perspective).

There is no pattern for that, it all depend from the place. Thunderstorm clouds in Dubai are usually low and it is common to have fog in the morning that is no higher then 50 - 100 meters from the ground.

AltinD · #**1025** Posted **Sep 30, 2007, 9:00 PM**

September 30th, 2007

Burj Dubai Tower

Burj Dubai and Dubai Metro construction

AltinD · #**1026** Posted **Sep 30, 2007, 9:00 PM**

September 30th, 2007

AltinD · #**1027** Posted **Sep 30, 2007, 9:01 PM**

September 30th, 2007

Facade:

AltinD · #**1028** Posted **Sep 30, 2007, 9:02 PM**

Slugbech is gone love these:

Aleks · #**1029** Posted **Sep 30, 2007, 9:44 PM**

O.M.G. Those floors are tini tiny!!! What's going to be on those floors?

Austin55 · #**1030** Posted **Sep 30, 2007, 10:22 PM**

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the are small,it looks scary,like its going to snap,

dubai 1 · #**1031** Posted **Sep 30, 2007, 10:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by Aleks0o01

O.M.G. Those floors are tini tiny!!! What's going to be on those floors?

they are actual not that tiny. the core has more then 2,500 sqft. and it's going to keep getting small. by the time it reaches it's highest occupied floor level which is level 173 at 701m. the sqft is about 850sqft

Dsa · #**1032** Posted **Sep 30, 2007, 10:56 PM**

AltinD,
Stunning pictures !! WOW!

AltinD · #**1033** Posted **Sep 30, 2007, 11:06 PM**

September 30th - The Jungle:

1ajs · #**1034** Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 4:21 AM**

AltinD · #**1035** Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 1:33 PM**

Aleks · #**1036** Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 12:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by dubai 1

they are actual not that tiny. the core has more then 2,500 sqft. and it's going to keep getting small. by the time it reaches it's highest occupied floor level which is level 173 at 701m. the sqft is about 850sqft

Are you kidding? That's like a small, SMALL house!! Compare this to the H.K.F.C. this thing is small in square footage. I know it has to do with the design but 850 ft. is good for one person. Maybe two but most likely one.

I really like the pictures you posted AltinD. Specially the first one.

wadiman · #**1037** Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 4:52 AM**

As promised...

wadiman · #**1038** Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 5:42 AM**

AltinD · #**1039** Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 5:04 PM**

^^ We have seen pic of that chart showing a height of 818 meters. Actually we have much more then that.

Stefan040780 · #**1040** Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 5:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by AltinD

^^ We have seen pic of that chart showing a height of 818 meters. Actually we have much more then that.

numbers, we want numbers :-P