I was just looking at a picture of this building in Dubai.
The picture seems fake, as the building is just so huge compared to the surroundings.
To anyone who’s visited the building in real life, does it seem that way? What’s it like going up inside of it?
What do you find fake about the pictures? The buildings in the background are all too far away to be of any reference, while the building in the foreground seems to be about fifteen stories. The Burj by comparison is about 200 counting the spire, so I would say that the picture gives an accurate feel of the thing.
I have and the view in the pic is certainly possible from the appropriate vantage point. it is a buoying which is 2.5 times taller ten the previous record holder and IIRC 4 times the Dubai record.
It doesn’t look real from the way it just looks so big and tall. It’s looks like they cut out a picture of a building blew it up and stuck it on a skyline somewhere. I guess the proportionality of it, that throws me off.
I visited it with my daughter last year. It is completely insane. They have what they claim are the fastest elevators in the world, so you get to the observation deck in a minute or two. The observation deck actually isn’t that close to the top of the building (the Wikipedia link says it’s only at around 1400 feet), but even so you are looking down on other skyscrapers from a great height. We posted some pictures from the observation deck on my wife’s Facebook page, and someone commented that it looked like the pictures were taken from a plane rather than from a building. To pick an example from the intarwebs.
It is impressive, though I’m not sure what the occupancy rate is. The base is connected to a very large mall, which is also impressive. Here’s a photo I took earlier this year.
That wiki picture makes it look like a CGI Tower of Lairness for some evil overlord type. Really … what is the big whoop about having the tallest building if it tips over in the damned sand and sinks?
If you have architects and engineers who can make such a tall building, you think they would not be able to channel into thousands of years of expertize and make a building that does not sink in to the sand.:rolleyes:
My understanding is that the firm that actually built it are sort of the go-to guys these days for super-tall buildings. It’s Samsung Construction, and they also built the Petronas Towers and Taipei 101. So they probably know what they are doing.
Dude that picture is absolutely amazing. If you look at it make sure you click the + sign and look at his picture in actual size. I see where the original poster says it looks fake.
If you look at the pic in full size, it looks normal and then as you go up, it starts looking unreal as it goes up against the sky.
I do not think it is going to tip over into the sand and sink. However, I do think it is quite soon going to crumble into ruin because no-one will have any economic incentive to do routine maintenance on it.
It really is something to behold. Standing outside the mall and looking up at it is dizzying.
That’s just the main contractor, the geotechnical engineer on record is Hyder Consulting out of the UK. The Structural engineers are SOM, specifically Bill Baker from Chicago.
That would make it even *more *awesome.
I’ve never been in it, but I’ve been near it in Dubai and, yeah, it’s a big frigging building.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains.
