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ALTURA
http://www.burjdubai.com/
Su altura precisa no ha sido revelada todavía y sólo lo será una vez que
haya sido terminado: el Burj Dubai quiere, de hecho, ser el rascacielos más
alto del mundo y mantener esta primacía, al menos, hasta su construcción
definitiva.
Se tratará, como mínimo de unos 800 metros de altura, con los que esta
gigantesca estructura superará al Taipei 101 de Taiwan que actualmente
ostenta el récord.
Burj Dubai will be nearly half a mile high, at 800 metres tall (Image: SOM)
The construction of what will be the world's tallest building is set to begin in
Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The building contract was awarded to a
consortium led by the South Korean Samsung Corporation on Thursday.
The Burj Dubai tower will stand 800 metres tall - just 5 metres shy of half a
mile - once completed in 2008. That will be nearly 300 metres taller than
the tallest floored building in the world today, the Taipei Tower in Taiwan.
"It's almost like a series of buildings stuck together," says Mohsen Zikri, a
director at UK engineering consultants Arup. "As you go up you need less
and less lifts and less core."
Military precision
A key challenge will be the logistics involved in construction, Zikri told New
Scientist. "You need things to be delivered with military precision or you
will have chaos on the ground."
As wind whirls around a tall building it can build into powerful vortices that
in turn generate powerful winds on the ground. But the wide base of the
Burj Dubai should also prevent wind from causing these disturbances.
Besides beating the Taipei Tower, which stands at 508 metres tall, Burj
Dubai will also be considerably taller than the CN tower in Toronto, Canada,
which stands at 553 metres tall though is without a multiple floor structure.
The tower will be used for offices, residential apartments, hotels and shops
and will be surrounded at its base by a man-made lake.
Burj Dubai
Dubai has long stood out as an architectural pioneer in the region, forging
ahead with landmark projects such as Dubai Marina (the world’s largest
man- made marina with a 11 km promenade), Palm Island (the world’s
largest man made island), and Burj Al Arab (the world’s first seven star
hotel).
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The building will have a hotel, a shopping mall, offices and luxury
apartments.
"The tower represents the next stage of growth for Emaar and will be the
basis for future developments and act as a signpost for the ambitions of the
region."