The ninjas at AMNP just featured this short video shot from the top of the Burj Dubai, designed by SOM, the tallest building in the world.
An interesting aerial view of Dubai, where you can see how long the shadow of this tower can get.
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When the only place to look is down, and the only think to see is endless construction and drearily-flat desert, I begin to wonder if the tower was really worth it…. Then again, I doubt that its builders ever wasted time pondering if it was a justifiable ego-trip.
I know, I know… Dont hate the player, hate the game… but still….
wow.
see this!
world record base jump from burj dubai .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0vQvHdN5qA
ethical and common sense questions aside…which there are a plenty…as a thing this is just incredible. I really cant believe this exists. when he points the camera outward and there’s absolutely nothing but barren dessert slammed up against a, surprisingly, small amount of scaleless development, wow. and when you finally see the shadow of the needle point you’re standing on. wow. just wow.
also, according to wiki..the top 50 or so floors are mechanical? anyone know whats up with that? I missed the discovery show on that. Im guessing some sort of 50 story pendulum/counterweight that allows this thing to exist?
RT @archdaily A vertigo inducing view from the top of Burj Dubai. At 164 floors, the tallest building in the world http://bit.ly/kWODQ
Holy vertigo, batman! A view from the top of Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world. Not for the faint of heart: http://tr.im/F6MZ
http://bit.ly/1YboSz / A view from the top of Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world… unreal.
In terms of ethicality, In some way one can see it as a human and technical accomplishment of our period of time, just like how people look at pyramid of our past.
amazing! yes, human achievement! if this was the only thing in dubai without all the wasteland development around it, i’d still go there just to see it. I think it’s the best thing there amidst all the excess and waste. The sheik did good with this one. How they placed the top spire on the thing is something that baffles me.
The entire construction and design crew must have racked their brains over matters like this all the time. Not easy being the tallest in the world, and it would seem for a long time yet.
I agreed about the ego trip. If it were in HK or places with space constrain, maybe it would somewhat justify. But in Dubai, is it just a plain ego showoff. I salute the engineering though.
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Think its cheaper to use google earth for that kind of view :)
This is not an achievement.
Usually when I think “architectural achievement” I think “smart solution to difficult problem”. But this building IS the problem.
I’m a believer in avant garde architecture and I do think there is some value to large, costly buildings in some circumstances. But this is on a scale that’s just plain gross.
I’m not impressed.
And if you look closely at the base of the tower (next to the artificial lake)you can see the Dubai Mall…. the largest Mall in the world!!!… and, if you could look under all that sand you would see the largest oil-reserves in the world!!
maybe later on, there will be an US airplane fly over the sky of Dubai! so scary!
i was there last night
9:24 PM Nov 16th
WOW. I toured this when it was being built. RT @seandburke: A view from top of Burj Dubai – tallest building in the world http://tr.im/F6MZ