Here is a picture taken from my lounge chair at the pool. I love these towers - The Emirates Towers. To me, they are just so beautiful. I believe that one of them is a business tower and the other is residential. They are located down the block from our office.
Here is our office tower. We're in the blue building on the left on the 19th floor (about 1/2 way up the building). This picture was taken about 2 hours after the one above (approx 11am) and you can see the humidity and haze of the day is already getting thick.
Here is a shopping center called Madinat Jumierah. It is brand new, but has been designed to look like an old medina shopping souk. The advantage is it is airconditioned in the summer (they will open all the doors and it is outdoors in the winter). The disadvantage is that it is SO EXPENSIVE!! However, that didn't stop me from finding some very cool things.
I tried to take a picture of the Burj Dubai's construction site. It's still hard to convey the enormity of it all. In the background on the left is the Burj (soon to be the tallest building in the world at over 800m tall). Next to it are 20 or more towers also going up at the same time. Each of these will probably be 50 stories or more. You can't see them all from this photo.In case you're wondering, the large cement pylons you see in the foreground are the construction of an elevated commuter train that is going in here.
3 comments:
Wow! Thanks! That's EXACTLY what I was talking about. Great pics!
Thanks for the pics. One of the towers looks like its leaning toward the other, is it?
No, these towers aren't leaning - it's just a trick of the photo. There is a tower that is planned that will be leaning (6% angle). It is called the iPad and will be modeled after an iPod sitting in its docking station. No this is not a joke.
Here is a link http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/ipad_23_storey_tower_in_dubai_inspired_by_an_ipod.php
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