After being an elevator designer since March 2008,I am a bit crazy about the word 'tall';when it comes to buildings,it is really a crazy crazy stuff.Here in Singapore,we all live in public housing which are having a minimum height of 48 meters (assuming a 12 storey HDB flat) and I used to stay in 12th floor of a such flat.At that point of time,it didn't came as a wonderful feeling on I am sleeping 40 over meters above the ground.
But the feeling of tallness brought be into a new dimension when I saw the city of Kuala Lumpur from KL Telecom Tower and Petronas Tower...great man...simply awsome!Mankind is crazy over tall buildings,even in the biblical times, we can see the plans of man to build skyscrapper 'Babel Tower'.It was a plan against God..so it end up in a mess.But I think in this era we need skyscrappers...tall tall ones...reason being,our earth cannot expand horizontally, if we need to satisy our needs for place,habitat,house or whatever we call, we need to grow vertically...cool right?
Here comes the great news from the Middle East, Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal said he will build the world's tallest building in the Saudi city of Jeddah.His plans for the so called pilot project 'Kingdom City',the building is going to be 1.6 km high!...(Decided,if it comes true,I'll climb up the highest observation deck).
The tallest building which is under construction is Burj Dubai in UAE,which has a constructed height of 680 meters now.(After completion,it will be 818 meters high).
(This will be Burj Dubai, some where in the end of 2009)The equation is quite clear ,1 Kingdom City Tower = 2 x Burj Dubai
I'll update you with the new plans in the Middle East in the next post..stay tuned.
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