The TEN Structures to be built.

[HurricaneHunter914]

This thread is for the FIVE structures that are to be completed by 2010. All pictures are from Wikipedia.

Freedom Tower:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... Tower3.jpg

Burj Dubai:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... WNTOWN.jpg

Fordham Spire:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... 060527.jpg

The Al Burj, Credit to A2K and Wikipedia for the picture:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... Alburj.jpg

The Madinat, a 25 year project, expected to be 1,001 METERS TALL, over 3,000 FEET:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... adinat.jpg

The X-Seed 4000. Once completed, it will be 13,123 FEET HIGH:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... ed4000.jpg

The Shimizu Mega City Pyramid. Expected to be the largest man made structure ever built and will house over 750,000 people:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... ry2004.gif

Sky City, a 3000 FOOT HIGH structure expected to house 35,000 Residents once completed:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... 000_01.jpg

The London Millennium Tower, not as high as the others, but still notable:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... mtower.jpg

The Shanghai World Financial Center:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... ompare.jpg

Once all are completed they will be the most tallest structures in the world!

[Stephanie]

I can't even imagine the Fordham Spire! Where is that going to be located?

Dubai has some of the most interesting buildings. That one is going to be nice.

I LOVE the Freedom Tower - classic and elegant.

[Yarrah]

Too bad Burj Dubai is built by modern slaves. Read the following article from Wikipedia

Human rights
It is a common practice for employers in the UAE to retain employees' passports for the duration of the employment contract to prevent expatriate employees from changing jobs. This is an illegal practice, but it is almost never investigated, let alone punished by the government. Even though there are court rulings all the government departments are holding their employees' passports. On termination of an employment contract, most categories of expatriates are banned from obtaining a work permit in the country for six months and a no entry stamp will be stamped on their passports.

The United States Department of State has cited widespread instances of blue collar labor abuse in the general context of the United Arab Emirates [1].

The government has been criticized by human rights agencies such as Human Rights Watch for its inaction in addressing the discrimination against Asian workers in the emirates. Salary structures and treatment based on nationality, sex, age, and race rather than on qualification are common [2].

(...)

The UAE's human rights record, particularly in relation to migrant workers, was widely criticized during the trials of Sarah Balabagan in 1995.

A website is campaigning to pressure the government of the UAE into signing up to International Labour Organization core conventions on freedom of association (see [2]). Strikes and unions are currently banned in the UAE and many laborers are virtual prisoners, having paid huge agents' fees in order to obtain jobs and visas.

Migrant workers

Migrant workers, sometimes unskilled or skilled, comprise a large portion of UAE's workforce. A 2003 Human Rights Watch report estimates up to 90 percent of the country's 1.7 million workers are migrants. These migrants, drawn to wages often more than they could make in their home countries, have helped UAE's endless construction projects proceed rapidly. However, unlike many other countries, these foreign workers (also known as expatriates) do not have a claim to UAE citizenship and thus cannot be naturalized. This is generally only possible through marriage to a UAE or GCC citizen. People from neighboring Arab countries or Iran who entered the country illegally during the 1950's and 60's, however, are full UAE citizens, due to the fact that poor border controls existed at that time.

Migrant workers in UAE face many challenges. As mentioned above, disparities in salaries and treatment occur for different races, with Arabs and Westerners getting better pay than their Asian or non-Arab counterparts. Even among Asians there are disparities. For example, a worker from South Asia, China or Philippines may receive lower pay and worse treatment than one from Japan or Singapore.

Still, Burj Dubai is a beautiful tower, but so are the other ones. I wonder what the view will be on the top floor. Must be really spectacular.

[JonathanBelles]

i like all 3, i wish i could visit them.

[HurricaneHunter914]

I can't even imagine the Fordham Spire! Where is that going to be located?

Dubai has some of the most interesting buildings. That one is going to be nice.

I LOVE the Freedom Tower - classic and elegant.

The Fordham Spire will be located in Chicago, once it is completed it could hold the title for being the second tallest building in the world, with Burj Dubai being the first and the Freedom Tower being the third tallest.

[HurricaneHunter914]

i like all 3, i wish i could visit them.

You will be able to visit The Freedom Tower in New York and Fordhom Spire in Chicago (along with the Sears Tower), but Burj Dubai would be a long trip.

[JonathanBelles]

i am a world traveler.

[Regit]

I can't help looking at the towers in NY and Chicago and thinking how easy it would be to fly a plane in to them.

[HurricaneHunter914]

The Freedom Tower will have 3 FT thick walls and Blast proof windows so it should be ready for any attack.

From Wikipedia:
Other new safety features will include 3 foot (90 cm) thick walls for all stairwells, elevator shafts, risers, and sprinkler systems; extremely wide "emergency stairs"; a dedicated set of stairwells exclusively for the use of firefighters; and biological and chemical filters throughout its ventilation system. The building will no longer be 25 feet (7.6 m) away from West Street—with the redesign and smaller base (the same width and length now as each of the previous towers), Freedom Tower will average 90 feet (27 m) away from the street.[3] At its closest point, West Street will be 65 feet (20 m) away. The windows on the side of the building facing in this direction will be equipped with specially tempered blast-resistant plastic, which will look nearly exactly the same as the glass used in the other sides of the building.

"Ultra-clear" glass, as opposed to reflective or tinted glass, is proposed for the fenestration generally. This will benefit internal daylight propagation; however, at this stage it is unclear how the corresponding issue of solar heat gain will be addressed. Although the roof area of any tower is comparatively limited, the building will implement a greywater recycling scheme involving rainwater collection. The robust, redundant steel moment frame, consisting of beams and columns connected by a combination of welding and bolting, resists lateral loads through bending of the frame elements. Paired with a concrete-core shear wall, the moment frame lends substantial rigidity and redundancy to the overall building structure while providing column-free interior spans for maximum flexibility.

[vbhoutex]

I can't help looking at the towers in NY and Chicago and thinking how easy it would be to fly a plane in to them.

How do you make a tower so it isn't easy to fly a plane into?

[HurricaneHunter914]

I think Tiger meant that it is kinda unsafe these days to build the potentially Tallest Buildings in the world.

[Regit]

I think Tiger meant that it is kinda unsafe these days to build the potentially Tallest Buildings in the world.

Bingo.

I can't help looking at the towers in NY and Chicago and thinking how easy it would be to fly a plane in to them.

How do you make a tower so it isn't easy to fly a plane into?

You don't.

[wxmann_91]

CN Tower in Toronto's pretty cool. I liked the Glass Floor, coolest experience ever.

EDIT: Oops, wrong thread. disregard please

[Audrey2Katrina]

Dubai has a couple of projects under consideration--they're really out to make that one of the world's most impressive skylines... Another "project" is the Al Burj, also over 700 m tall and by far taller than anything else in the world--perhaps except the Burj Dubai:



A quick check on google or other sites of Dubai development yields a quite impressive plan.

A2K

[Brent]

I've always had this fascination with the Sears Tower(though I've never been to Chicago, I want to go within a couple of years though). The Fordham Spire is going to be awesome!

The CN Tower looks nice too.

I wish I had gone to the World Trade Center...

[HurricaneHunter914]

I got lucky, my family visited the WTC in July 2001. TWO months before the attack.

[gtalum]

I can't help looking at the towers in NY and Chicago and thinking how easy it would be to fly a plane in to them.

I'm not concerned. Anyone trying to commandeer a jet for a 9/11 style attack will find himself very dead very quickly and painfully at the hands of passengers and crew.

[HurricaneHunter914]

Hey guys I have added some new structures so go ahead and check them out.

[kevin]

A bunch of these structures will never be built.

[wxmann_91]

I got lucky, my family visited the WTC in July 2001. TWO months before the attack.

It would be scary for the people who visited the Twin Towers the day before 9/11.