Fisher acknowledges that he is not well known, has never built a skyscraper before and hasn't practiced architecture regularly in decades.
Fisher acknowledges that he is not well known, has never built a skyscraper before and hasn't practised architecture regularly in decades.
But he insisted his lack of experience wouldn't stop him from completing the project, which has attracted top design talent, including Leslie Robertson, the structural engineer for the World Trade Center and the Shanghai World Financial Centre.
"I did not design skyscrapers, but I feel ready to do so," Fisher said.
Ruh ohOriginally posted by: oddyager
Fisher acknowledges that he is not well known, has never built a skyscraper before and hasn't practised architecture regularly in decades.
But he insisted his lack of experience wouldn't stop him from completing the project, which has attracted top design talent, including Leslie Robertson, the structural engineer for the World Trade Center and the Shanghai World Financial Centre.
"I did not design skyscrapers, but I feel ready to do so," Fisher said.
LOL.
Originally posted by: freegeeks
I've been living in the Gulf for the past 7 months (Bahrain) and this whole region is one giant bubble that some day is going to burst. They are reclaiming land and building stuff all the time. It's crazy.
The biography also said he received an honorary doctorate from "the Prodeo Institute at Columbia University in New York." No such institution exists, however, and Columbia said it had never awarded Fisher an honorary degree.
Asked to explain the discrepancy, Fisher said, through his New York publicists, that he had been awarded the degree by the Catholic University of Rome during a ceremony in 1994 held at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, which is near Columbia's campus.
Asked again to clarify the name of the school that conferred the degree, Fisher's publicists said in an e-mail that "Dr. Fisher did receive an honorary doctorate in economics from Pre Deo University, but it has been removed from his bio because he wants to be entirely accurate and cannot be with this information."
Robertson, who attended Tuesday's news conference, said that the skyscraper might be unusual, but is "absolutely" buildable.
"You can build anything," he said, smiling.
Originally posted by: xyyz
Originally posted by: freegeeks
I've been living in the Gulf for the past 7 months (Bahrain) and this whole region is one giant bubble that some day is going to burst. They are reclaiming land and building stuff all the time. It's crazy.
bahrain, an interesting place. there's a constant competition between the PM and the king about who has bigger and better possessions.
you see what they've done to the water in that country by reclaiming all that land?
Originally posted by: xyyz
leave it to the gulf arabs to come up with all these useless structures.
Originally posted by: freegeeks
I've been living in the Gulf for the past 7 months (Bahrain) and this whole region is one giant bubble that some day is going to burst. They are reclaiming land and building stuff all the time. It's crazy.
Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
I don't see this ever getting built.