Worlds tallest building opens in Dubai

[MB4CY]

Was talking to one of my nephews who is an architec and he said that building is crazy. The top floors are pressurized much like an ariplane because it is so high. He said the design can go gone much higher if desired. Architecs were worrried about money to build it. He also indicated the extra cost operating of a building this size are huge. (Pumping water to the top, elevators, etc.)

I'm looking forward to seeing a TV special on one of the "information" channels about how this was built and why certain things were done. I don't understand why you would need to pressurize the upper floors when they are "only" about 2,700 feet above sea level, which is barely half of what Denver is, for example. Would you ears pop that badly if you rode an express elevator to the top? Did they include a tuned mass damper to offset the wind loads? I can imagine the sway on the upper floors during high winds to be worse than a ship in rough water.

I'd be amazed if this building operates at anything but a huge loss for the foreseeable future. It's all about making a name for your city.

 

[Dave19642006]

What exactly do they do in Dubai?

Count the US's money for paying what we do for oil when there fuel only runs .03 a gallon. Laughing all the way to the bank and then building stuff thats out ragious for us to gawk at.

 

[brianhos]

and I boldly predict that floors 10 - 100 will be vacant.

Look at the vacancy rate of the empire st building. For some reason, no one wants to move into the tallest building in NYC.

 

[brianhos]

Fortunately, America's debt isn't relying on how much oil is left in the ground. When those wells go dry and the world refocuses it's energy needs that area of the world is going to get real interesting.

Wells going dry? I think my 4th grade teacher told us by 1980 all wells would be dry.

 

[delt4cy]

Penthouses are like floors 150 and up.

I'm seriously puzzled what will fill the 1,000,000 sf (guessing) on floors 10 - 100.

 

[06_CY]

It's fairly clear that some of you haven't even read the article (or the one on CNN)...

 

[delt4cy]

90% sold my a$s! (and that's just the residential units)

My mistake, I will boldly claim that floors 10-90 will be vacant, or otherwise leased at firesale rates.