Another nice Dubai skyscraper.

[dennilfloss]

That thing will be cool as heck.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Wo.../06/24/5975081-ap.html

 

[RichardE]

Looks awsome..but..

Fisher acknowledges that he is not well known, has never built a skyscraper before and hasn't practiced architecture regularly in decades.

oh oh...

 

[jai6638]

He's charging way too much.. Current prices are at around $600 / square feet .. By 2010-11, the prices are supposed to steady out ( and maybe even crash ) so $3000 sounds like way too much. lol

 

[HannibalX]

No need to ram it with a plane, it looks like it's going to fall over on its own.

 

[akshatp]

"...lifts will allow penthouse residents to park their cars right in their apartments. "

 

[xyyz]

leave it to the gulf arabs to come up with all these useless structures.

 

[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.

 

[LegendKiller]

The guy sounds like a scam.

 

[archiloco]

all that extra cost might be for the irregular shape it's in.......there does not seem 2 floors that are the same :/

 

[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.

 

[clamum]

Originally 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.

Ruh oh

Yeah the guy sounds shady. Then the last part about his degree? LOL.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

What happens when one of these modular floors breaks due to crappy construction (since we all know how sturdy modular houses generally are), near the top and falls down on all the floors below it?

I await the headline "first skyscraper in motion collapses"... A guy that hasn't practiced architecture in years is going to design something like this? Yeah not to sure on that one....

 

[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?

 

[Tim]

If you're wondering what types of things high oil prices pay for....

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

I have some moves of my own.

 

[darkxshade]

Someone better be guarding the "on" switch during construction. tee hee

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

I don't see this ever getting built.

 

[Perknose]

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."

Lol.

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.

Hey! in that case, count me in!

 

[Journer]

i bet getting down the stairs would be interesting. especially if there was a fire

 

[freegeeks]

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?

not very interesting IMO

I'm living in an apartment complex that is build on reclaimed land. In the south they have a massive construction project.

There is not a lot to do here. In weekends it's full with Saudis who come here for the hookers and the booze.

The party will be over when the oil is gone and then this whole region will go back to it's true status of being insignificant

 

[angry hampster]

Originally posted by: xyyz
leave it to the gulf arabs to come up with all these useless structures.

He's Italian. :laugh:

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.

It will burst. The economies of those regions are entirely dependent upon oil reserves. WHen they dry up, so will their economies.

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
I don't see this ever getting built.

Agreed. It's too risky, even for Dubai.