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Latest Burj Dubai Skyscraper

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:39 pm
by pdomino
Burj Dubai Skyscraper, its very small.

Image

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:41 pm
by *grand*
jesus... reminds me of the building in cyber city oedo 808.

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:41 pm
by seckle
yeah, good luck getting to the basement in a fire. time to buy parachutes.

i think tiger woods already bought a floor.

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:51 pm
by badger
fucking hell that's huge. any idea how tall it is?
seckle wrote:i think tiger woods already bought a floor.
is it an apartment complex?

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:03 pm
by dubloke
badger wrote:fucking hell that's huge. any idea how tall it is?
598.5 m (1,964 ft) at the moment

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:06 pm
by *grand*
over half a km.....dang...

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:06 pm
by pdomino
*Grand* wrote:jesus... reminds me of the building in cyber city oedo 808.
:o cant believe you just said tht, "it reminds me of something" I said elsewhere.

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:10 pm
by *grand*
????

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:24 pm
by pdomino
What it reminds me of, mad, wont mean owt to you i dont think.
Yoshiaki who did 'C.C.0.808' did Vampire Hunter D which is another of my favourite :)

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:26 pm
by *grand*
those breasts in the shower... where a school boys dream... lol..... aye big manga!

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:45 pm
by seckle
badger wrote:fucking hell that's huge. any idea how tall it is?
seckle wrote:i think tiger woods already bought a floor.
is it an apartment complex?
there was a news show on this. it's supposed to be like a "city" within itself concept. like some floors with be a hotel, some floors a shopping mall, some offices and some condos.

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:16 pm
by FSTZ
the company I work for won the bid to slap the elevators in that bad bwoy

large up your vertical transporation

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:12 pm
by drquynh
seckle wrote:yeah, good luck getting to the basement in a fire. time to buy parachutes.

i think tiger woods already bought a floor.
In a fire, there would be some serious winds swirling around that building... I'd hate to be the first to jump. :wink:

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:08 pm
by dubluke
FUCK, thats huge

dubai is going to be absolutely ruined within the next 10 years i reckon, those shaped islands they build are ruining the coral ecosystem, the massive skyscrapers are becoming far too many in number, the place is being spoiled, a stupid amount of foreign money is floating around whilst the average Dubai citizen lives in squalor, with their only choice of work being building the skyscrapers, loads of them die from heat stroke or bad building practice each year....its shit man, for me Dubai is one of the greatest demonstrations of capitalist greed

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:50 pm
by elementalism
dubluke wrote:FUCK, thats huge

dubai is going to be absolutely ruined within the next 10 years i reckon, those shaped islands they build are ruining the coral ecosystem, the massive skyscrapers are becoming far too many in number, the place is being spoiled, a stupid amount of foreign money is floating around whilst the average Dubai citizen lives in squalor, with their only choice of work being building the skyscrapers, loads of them die from heat stroke or bad building practice each year....its shit man, for me Dubai is one of the greatest demonstrations of capitalist greed
Dubai isn't that poor or that hard done by mate, trust me. I do a Geography degree and Dubai is on the way to becoming the first Arab Tiger economy, mainly because it's using cheap south Asian labour and maintains a friendly outward image. Dubaians aren't really the people working to get these skyscrapers finished, most Dubaians work in tourism or the related industries and do fairly well.

Trust me, it's not that bad out there!

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:12 pm
by dubluke
Elementalism wrote:
dubluke wrote:FUCK, thats huge

dubai is going to be absolutely ruined within the next 10 years i reckon, those shaped islands they build are ruining the coral ecosystem, the massive skyscrapers are becoming far too many in number, the place is being spoiled, a stupid amount of foreign money is floating around whilst the average Dubai citizen lives in squalor, with their only choice of work being building the skyscrapers, loads of them die from heat stroke or bad building practice each year....its shit man, for me Dubai is one of the greatest demonstrations of capitalist greed
Dubai isn't that poor or that hard done by mate, trust me. I do a Geography degree and Dubai is on the way to becoming the first Arab Tiger economy, mainly because it's using cheap south Asian labour and maintains a friendly outward image. Dubaians aren't really the people working to get these skyscrapers finished, most Dubaians work in tourism or the related industries and do fairly well.

Trust me, it's not that bad out there!
mate for a minority its not that bad, but there are still bare people living in slums and that

i just hate the whole concept of this new dubai in general "oooh yeah lets go there so we can show off our disposable income, and waste it on material shit, and then come back and tell all the other lads earning huge bonuses about how much coke we did"

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:35 am
by T_macabre
id love to stick a transmitter on top of that, itd fooking boom out...
would be a pain in the arse taking the rig up there tho...

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:57 am
by seckle
the film syriana is a good background to whats going on in dubai and the gulf in general.

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:01 pm
by ashley
dubluke wrote:
Elementalism wrote:
dubluke wrote:FUCK, thats huge

dubai is going to be absolutely ruined within the next 10 years i reckon, those shaped islands they build are ruining the coral ecosystem, the massive skyscrapers are becoming far too many in number, the place is being spoiled, a stupid amount of foreign money is floating around whilst the average Dubai citizen lives in squalor, with their only choice of work being building the skyscrapers, loads of them die from heat stroke or bad building practice each year....its shit man, for me Dubai is one of the greatest demonstrations of capitalist greed
Dubai isn't that poor or that hard done by mate, trust me. I do a Geography degree and Dubai is on the way to becoming the first Arab Tiger economy, mainly because it's using cheap south Asian labour and maintains a friendly outward image. Dubaians aren't really the people working to get these skyscrapers finished, most Dubaians work in tourism or the related industries and do fairly well.

Trust me, it's not that bad out there!
mate for a minority its not that bad, but there are still bare people living in slums and that

i just hate the whole concept of this new dubai in general "oooh yeah lets go there so we can show off our disposable income, and waste it on material shit, and then come back and tell all the other lads earning huge bonuses about how much coke we did"
And what about your own country that you live in?

People are homeless here too you know, and what makes it worse, the poor people in this country have to get two jobs to feed the mouths of their children they had at teenagers. Not like our people can just pitch up and start growing a crop like other nations.

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:52 pm
by deamonds
Ashley wrote:
dubluke wrote:
Elementalism wrote:
dubluke wrote:FUCK, thats huge

dubai is going to be absolutely ruined within the next 10 years i reckon, those shaped islands they build are ruining the coral ecosystem, the massive skyscrapers are becoming far too many in number, the place is being spoiled, a stupid amount of foreign money is floating around whilst the average Dubai citizen lives in squalor, with their only choice of work being building the skyscrapers, loads of them die from heat stroke or bad building practice each year....its shit man, for me Dubai is one of the greatest demonstrations of capitalist greed
Dubai isn't that poor or that hard done by mate, trust me. I do a Geography degree and Dubai is on the way to becoming the first Arab Tiger economy, mainly because it's using cheap south Asian labour and maintains a friendly outward image. Dubaians aren't really the people working to get these skyscrapers finished, most Dubaians work in tourism or the related industries and do fairly well.

Trust me, it's not that bad out there!
mate for a minority its not that bad, but there are still bare people living in slums and that

i just hate the whole concept of this new dubai in general "oooh yeah lets go there so we can show off our disposable income, and waste it on material shit, and then come back and tell all the other lads earning huge bonuses about how much coke we did"
And what about your own country that you live in?

People are homeless here too you know, and what makes it worse, the poor people in this country have to get two jobs to feed the mouths of their children they had at teenagers. Not like our people can just pitch up and start growing a crop like other nations.
i personally think its pathetic that in our country, in our day and age, that people are still homeless