Master Bates Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 The Burj Dubai tower, the tallest skyscraper in the world, is about to be completed. To celebrate it, David Hobcote has taken a series of amazing high resolution pictures from the air which give an exact impression of the breathtaking, massive scale of this building. Inside, it looks like a set from Blade Runner or the interior of the Death Star. More pics here: http://gizmodo.com/5038788/tallest-skyscraper-in-the-world-almost-completed-defies-belief
Johnny Shearer Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 Its just crazy how some things are built. Some very clever engineers out there indeed.
notnowcato Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 **** me! By the time you got to the top of that to start work it would be time to go home.
Master Bates Posted 20 August, 2008 Author Posted 20 August, 2008 **** me! By the time you got to the top of that to start work it would be time to go home. Good job they sleep up there then huh.
notnowcato Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 Good job they sleep up there then huh. sleeping on the job? Iz u a racialist?
saint1977 Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 Amazing building, I can't believe anyone can build that high! Having said that, work is not far enough getting underway on an EVEN taller building in Dubai. This building is not far off of being twice the height of the Empire State Building, which is enormous and it makes Canary Wharf look like a toy.
Rattlehead Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 I was in Dubai last week, for a couple of hours, but I didn't see it. True story.
Master Bates Posted 20 August, 2008 Author Posted 20 August, 2008 sleeping on the job? Iz u a racialist? Nah they camp up there at night, not a true story.
Hatch Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 I heard that half the worlds cranes currently being used are in Dubai. That is amazing.
Master Bates Posted 20 August, 2008 Author Posted 20 August, 2008 I heard that half the worlds cranes currently being used are in Dubai. That is amazing. More than that, they have a lot of work going on.
Marsdinho Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 Look at athat crane right at the top. Jessus****ingchrist, im not even scared of heights, but there is no way i would work up there. Mental
Jillyanne Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 How the hell do the cranes get bits of metal/concrete etc up that high?
Master Bates Posted 20 August, 2008 Author Posted 20 August, 2008 How the hell do the cranes get bits of metal/concrete etc up that high? Look at the other pics in the link.
Thedelldays Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 i wonder what the carbon footprint for dubai is these days....??
toofarnorth Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 The place just looks like one big building site. Can see Thomas Cook getting a few complaints!
St Landrew Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 How the hell do the cranes get bits of metal/concrete etc up that high? I was thinking how it would feel sitting in the cabin of the crane doing the lifting work. I know they're fixed on but, imagine getting the load off balance and eventually toppling off the building..? Makes my toes curl.
Jillyanne Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 I was thinking how it would feel sitting in the cabin of the crane doing the lifting work. I know they're fixed on but, imagine getting the load off balance and eventually toppling off the building..? Makes my toes curl. I know, like that theme park on top of the sky scrapers in Vegas - I would be terrified to go on those rides!
Barfy Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 How the hell do the cranes get bits of metal/concrete etc up that high? More to the point, how do they get the cranes down again once they're done?
Master Bates Posted 20 August, 2008 Author Posted 20 August, 2008 More to the point, how do they get the cranes down again once they're done? They push them. In all honesty, helicopters, they use helicopters.
scott_saints Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 Are they ever going to build anything tall in the UK?
Scummer Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 (edited) There were supposed to be a couple of tall (though not that tall), buildings going up in London. It was a pet project of Ken Livingstone though, so i'm not sure what will happen now Boris is in charge. Edited 20 August, 2008 by Scummer
St Landrew Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 I know, like that theme park on top of the sky scrapers in Vegas - I would be terrified to go on those rides! Was watching a recorded episode of the recently repeated series, Long Way Round. It was during the lads crossing of the USA, and they ended up at an amusement park where there was an extremely high swinging ride. Ewan McGregor sat in a seat along with one of the series cameramen. They had their ride filmed by the stock facility offered by the park. There was no acting here; you could see the barely contained terror in McGregor's body. He was almost stiff with it, but he reached out to hold the cameraman's arm for reassurance. Certainly not the behaviour of a Star Wars hero character, but I couldn't help but sympathise as I giggled. The next day he proclaimed he would never, ever do something so frightening again. And he found comfort in the relative safety of his motorcycle.
St Landrew Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 There were supposed to be a couple of tall (though not that tall, buildings going up in London. It was a pet project of Ken Livingstone though, so i'm not sure what will happen now Boris is in charge. There are a few new very tall buildings going to be put up in the old City district, near to the Cucumber, Marrow, Zukini, Courgette that vegetable named building [someone put me out of my misery here]. Gerkin..!
Baj Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 Was watching a recorded episode of the recently repeated series, Long Way Round. It was during the lads crossing of the USA, and they ended up at an amusement park where there was an extremely high swinging ride. Ewan McGregor sat in a seat along with one of the series cameramen. They had their ride filmed by the stock facility offered by the park. There was no acting here; you could see the barely contained terror in McGregor's body. He was almost stiff with it, but he reached out to hold the cameraman's arm for reassurance. Certainly not the behaviour of a Star Wars hero character, but I couldn't help but sympathise as I giggled. The next day he proclaimed he would never, ever do something so frightening again. And he found comfort in the relative safety of his motorcycle. I thought it was Charlie and Jimmy that went on the ride cos Ewan is scared of heights, same reason only Charlie jumped by victoria falls... could be wrong tho.
Master Bates Posted 20 August, 2008 Author Posted 20 August, 2008 I just imagined being on it, I pee'd myself
St Landrew Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 I thought it was Charlie and Jimmy that went on the ride cos Ewan is scared of heights, same reason only Charlie jumped by victoria falls... could be wrong tho. No, it was Ewan and Jimmy. No wonder he didn't do the bungee jump with Charlie on Long Way Down.
saint lard Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 I know, like that theme park on top of the sky scrapers in Vegas - I would be terrified to go on those rides! The one i went to was called circus,circus. Rollercoaster in the foyer and on the roof,never again i swear.
saints-cris Posted 20 August, 2008 Posted 20 August, 2008 It might just be me, but it looks like it slopes a little bit ?
St Landrew Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 It might just be me, but it looks like it slopes a little bit ? It's the focal length of the lens on the camera taking the [top of post] photograph. Look at the other buildings. They lean in the opposite to the vertical. I'd imagine the lens is quite a wide angle type. Anything around 35mm or under will cause that kind of distortion.
St Landrew Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 I can fly in an aircraft all day, and have done. In fact, I'd have a holiday of just take offs and landings, I love them so much, but SOD THAT..!
Jillyanne Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 Stratosphere Tower & rides in Las Vegas apparently. No thanks.
benjii Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 The thing is... thrill rides do breakdown sometimes. For that reason I would declare myself, "out".
Guest Dark Sotonic Mills Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 Bugger that lot for a game of soldiers. I'm with St Landrew on this one, 'planes all day any day but that load of rides dreamed up by a psychotic sadist...
benjii Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 Apprently on that green one there's an attachment that pops up and squeezes your balls too.
Al de Man Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 Apprently on that green one there's an attachment that pops up and squeezes your balls too. It would have trouble because they'd be withdrawn into my body and up by my nostrils at the end of that ride.
Baj Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 I'd love to go on that ride, up to the point where someone says "go on then" and i'd run away like a girl. I've had a fear of heights since 9/11, I guess it was to do with those people throwing themselves to their deaths. I went up the Olympic tower in Munich (which I've been up lots before) in 2002 and basically freaked out when I got to the top (wasn't expecting that reaction as I'd been up it so many times) and literally ran to the lift bashing the button to get to the bottom again.
St Landrew Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 I'd love to go on that ride, up to the point where someone says "go on then" and i'd run away like a girl. I've had a fear of heights since 9/11, I guess it was to do with those people throwing themselves to their deaths. I went up the Olympic tower in Munich (which I've been up lots before) in 2002 and basically freaked out when I got to the top (wasn't expecting that reaction as I'd been up it so many times) and literally ran to the lift bashing the button to get to the bottom again. I'm not overly happy at heights either, but I remember going to the top of the Eiffel Tower, and my girlfriend had her face pressed into my chest and was hugging me like she'd never let go. I could see the skeletal structure getting smaller and smaller as the lift rose to the top, and my main thought was, do I trust 100 year old French engineering..? Well I did, and the Eiffel Tower is an amazing experience, mainly because it is a tall tower, not a building, that is over 100 years old.
benjii Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 It's lifts that worry me, rather than the buildings themselves. Although evidently lifts are extremely safe.
Durleyfos Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 I didn't like going up the glass lift in the CN Tower in Toronto. Comming down was OK.
benjii Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 I got the lift up this fella and it didn't take long at all. You could really feel how fast it was going. Odd feeling!
Jillyanne Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 I went up this one, was strange as you can go outside at the top on a viewing platform and see for absolutely miles, awesome.
St Landrew Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 It's lifts that worry me, rather than the buildings themselves. Although evidently lifts are extremely safe. Lifts are extremely safe. It's films which have exploited our jitters about lifts. Even if the cables break, which they won't, unless sabotaged, there are brakes and secondary/tertiary safety measures to hold the lift in position.
benjii Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 Lifts are extremely safe. It's films which have exploited our jitters about lifts. Even if the cables break, which they won't, unless sabotaged, there are brakes and secondary/tertiary safety measures to hold the lift in position. Exactly. Think how many millions, literally, of lift trips there are every day. I was just a bit surprised by how fast it seemed to be going I guess.
benjii Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 I went up this one, was strange as you can go outside at the top on a viewing platform and see for absolutely miles, awesome. Looks like a willy. Hehe.
Jillyanne Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 Looks like a willy. Hehe. You have a strange willeh.
benjii Posted 21 August, 2008 Posted 21 August, 2008 You have a strange willeh. Obviously mine's bigger than that.
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