Samsung wants to build the Wold's Tallest Building.

[dieselstation]

wasn't the one in Malaysia JUST overtaken by the one in Taiwan? now Samsung wants to outdo them all in Dubai.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4081885.stm




Samsung to build tallest building
A computer image of the Burj Dubai in the United Arab Emirates
The tower is set to change Dubai's skyline
South Korea's Samsung Corporation has won the contract to build the world's tallest building, the Burj Tower in Dubai.

Samsung won the $306m(£160m) deal, after an 11-month bid process.

The concrete and steel tower will be part of an $8bn(£4.2bn) 500-acre project in the United Arab Emirates.

Workers have already started to clear the ground for the 800-metre high, 160-floor skyscraper and it should be completed by November 2008.

Construction work on the Burj tower will begin in January, and when completed it will be taller than the world's current highest building, Taiwan's 509-metre TFC 101 building.

The building will have a hotel, a shopping mall, offices and luxury apartments.

It was commissioned by Emaar Properties, as part of its Downtown Dubai development.

"Samsung Corporation's appointment is a defining moment and the tower is set to rise and change the face of Dubai," said Mohamed Ali Alabbar, chairman of Emaar Properties.

"The tower represents the next stage of growth for Emaar and will be the basis for future developments and act as a signpost for the ambitions of the region."

Dubai is proud of its adventurous construction projects, such as the seven-star Burj al-Arab hotel which has already become an iconic structure.

Samsung teamed up with Belgium's Besix and local company Arabtec to outbid seven other groups for the contract.

Burj Dubai Tower
800 metres (2,640 feet) tall
Upward-spiral design
Exterior cladding system
Built of glass, aluminium, concrete, steel
Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago
Total floor space of 500,000 sq m (5.35 million sq ft)

[Rtfx]

Lol I knew a guy, he was part of my middle school staff, whose name was Wold.

He was fat, like GABE.

[AndrewHanes]

Oh man terrorists are going to have a good time whe that baby is done

[blixkin]

[Aldaris]

oh the irony, they want to build it in an arab country
poetic justice = us operatives flying a kuwait airways airplane into it

[Turdburglar]

imagine the............. profit

[Kael0r]

What the hell is the point?

I mean, the Titanic bloody sank, and that was the biggest ship ever in it's time.

You'll just have people on the top floor dying because they're in OUTER-FUCKING-SPACE, where there's no oxygen.

This is just a big penis compensation thing. All architects have small cocks.

[Heavens Cloud]

Looks like the Combine tower out of HL2.


I'm scared.

[Biospider]

Originally Posted by Heavens Cloud

Looks like the Combine tower out of HL2.


I'm scared.

Its walls will slowly eat the town too.

[Great Tiger]

Originally Posted by Kael0r

What the hell is the point?

You'll just have people on the top floor dying because they're in OUTER-FUCKING-SPACE, where there's no oxygen.

are you a Ever heard of something called ventilation?

[ant-M]

Originally Posted by Heavens Cloud

Looks like the Combine tower out of HL2.


I'm scared.

lol, so true

[Kael0r]

Originally Posted by Great Tiger

are you a Ever heard of something called Space-Suits

That's more like it.

[FriedCPU]

Makes me want to play Sim Tower.

[Aldaris]

Originally Posted by MonkeyzOwn

imagine the............. profit

[Biospider]

Originally Posted by Kael0r

What the hell is the point?

I mean, the Titanic bloody sank, and that was the biggest ship ever in it's time.

You'll just have people on the top floor dying because they're in OUTER-FUCKING-SPACE, where there's no oxygen.

This is just a big penis compensation thing. All architects have small cocks.

The point?

It's like an e-pen0s... but for real.