Irony? I think not...

Gate28Gate28 Orlando, Florida Icrontian
edited November 2007 in Gaming
I recently heard that they were building this mega skyscrapper in Dubai called the Dubai Tower that was going to be massive and touch clouds and be like 40 or 50 times taller than the CN Tower. Here a concept:

dubai%20tower.jpg



now...this bears a striking resemblence to two things to me.

This one came to my mind the moment i saw it. This is the Combine Citadel in City 17 in Half-Life 2:

HalfLife2_Citadel.jpg

Its quite a resemblence, if you imagine looking at it from the distance you are looking at the Dubai Tower from above...

the second one just came to me, its the Emerald City in Oz:

souders1030oz.jpg

hm...could this be the start of an alien cyborg invasion? Or the work of a crazy madman with a color changing horse? We shall see...

Comments

  • rolleggrollrolleggroll Next to a bowl of rice
    edited November 2007
    I'm off to see the wizard~!! the wonderful wizard of Dubai~!! lalalalalalala

    IMO, it looks like the designer is trying to compensate for something. hint hint hint.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited November 2007
    I find it very unlikely they'll build a tower 40 or 50 times taller then the CN tower. Because as they go up they must also go out so the base would also be proportionately scaled. 4 or 5 times taller, maybe.
  • RADARADA Apple Valley, CA Member
    edited November 2007
    kryyst wrote:
    I find it very unlikely they'll build a tower 40 or 50 times taller then the CN tower. Because as they go up they must also go out so the base would also be proportionately scaled. 4 or 5 times taller, maybe.

    With today's modern alloys and composite matierials the weight vs. strength & durability ratio has dropped dramatically. A contractor friend in Tucson said that just using engineered beams & trusses, along with wooden I-beam floor joists has reduced the overall weight of a standard home by over 2 tons. He sure that using PEX and PVC tubing for the plumbing, instead of copper and iron has had significant weight saving too.

    Dubai certainly has the funds to use cutting edge contruction materials on a building such as this. Even with the $$$ and the newest building materials, I think this building might remain a artist's concept, over an actual building.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    They'll have to pressurize the upper floors :p
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited November 2007
    RADA wrote:
    With today's modern alloys and composite matierials the weight vs. strength & durability ratio has dropped dramatically. A contractor friend in Tucson said that just using engineered beams & trusses, along with wooden I-beam floor joists has reduced the overall weight of a standard home by over 2 tons. He sure that using PEX and PVC tubing for the plumbing, instead of copper and iron has had significant weight saving too.

    Dubai certainly has the funds to use cutting edge contruction materials on a building such as this. Even with the $$$ and the newest building materials, I think this building might remain a artist's concept, over an actual building.

    I understand that I'm in the industry. But still you have to rationalize the structural stress at that level. The amount of flex it'd have to have at the top is insane.

    As for the tower you are speaking of it's not a dream. It is a reality, though a fraction of your initial post. It's called the Burj Dubai, it's scheduled for occupancy in 2009 and it's currently 587m heigh (CN Tower is 558) It's scheduled height is around 700m.

    So Gate's 40x50 prediction way off. Wherever the hell he heard that. Sounds like internet shenanigans to me. More like 40-50% higher, which is a big difference then 40-50 times higher.
  • JokkeJokke Bergen, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    40 times higher than the CN tower (558m), would be 22320m. That's tall!
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    The elevator waits would suckith.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    Looks like Frank Lloyd Wrights mile high skyscraper of Illinois.
  • Gate28Gate28 Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    Burjdubai_oct07.jpg


    This is a pic of it as-is...its a little less than halfway done and its taller than the CN Tower, so maybe i exaggurated just a teeny tiny but...:rolleyes2
  • ThelemechThelemech Victoria Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    Gate28 wrote:
    I recently heard that they were building this mega skyscrapper could this be the start of an alien cyborg invasion?We shall see...



    Silly organics ....even with all the clues, you still have not deciphered the signs that this is already fact!:tongue:;D:wtf:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    None of this is really ironic.
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    It's like Rai-ain.
  • mas0nmas0n howdy Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    UAE is going to rule the world.


    Carry on...
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