One kilometre-high building planned for Azerbaijan
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An Azerbaijani businessman has announced plans to build the world's highest building on an artificial island in the Caspian.
Haji Ibrahim Nehramli, president of the Avesta Group of Companies, says the new building will be a whopping 1,050 m high with 189 floors.
The Azerbaijan Tower will be 200 m higher than the world's current tallest building - Burj Khalifa, and 50 m higher than the Kingdom Tower to be built in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The Avesta management originally planned to build a 560-m tower, but revised their plans, APA reported.
Avesta says it has already held talks with the companies that built Burj Khalifa.
The Khazar Islands are a development of artificial islands to be constructed in the Caspian Sea off Garadag, southwest of Baku.
The Avesta Group told Gun.Az that the first phase of the islands project will include residential and social facilities and restaurants and will be completed in 2016.
The Azerbaijan Tower will be built as part of the second phase. Construction is expected to begin in 2016 and finish in 2018-19.[/release]
[url]http://www.news.az/articles/society/53275[/url]
Why isn't it better looking than the Burj Khalifa? See the 4th picture? That's the one.
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Imagine having the office at the top. You'd feel like you own the world.
[QUOTE=farmatyr;34634322]Imagine having the office at the top. You'd feel like you own the world.[/QUOTE]
A evil scientist should be placed on a huge office chair on the top floor.
I did not expect to hear something like this happening in, of all places, Azerbaijan.
I wanna dive into the water from the top.
the place on the 3D render type map looks like something from anno 2070 or Brink
[QUOTE=OwnedByTheDog;34634369]I wanna dive into the water from the top.[/QUOTE]
All of your bones would be broken and you'd be turned to jelly.
At that height, the surface tension of water is just as hard as concrete.
[QUOTE=OwnedByTheDog;34634369]I wanna dive into the water from the top.[/QUOTE]
Yeah.
[QUOTE=XanaToast.;34634380]the place on the 3D render type map looks like something from anno 2070 or Brink[/QUOTE]
Yeah now that you mention it, it looks almost exactly like the Scientist's city in Anno 2070
Can we please just wait like a decade before building the next tallest tower? It's like the current one can never stay #1 too long any more.
Is that a swimming pool made specifically for [i]yachts[/i]?
I'm glad we are on track to fulfilling the way the future is depicted in movies and books.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;34634393]All of your bones would be broken and you'd be turned to jelly.
At that height, the surface tension of water is just as hard as concrete.[/QUOTE]
So?
[QUOTE=farmatyr;34634322]Imagine having the office at the top. You'd feel like you own the world.[/QUOTE]
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Meh, I prefer the Burj Khalifa's style.
[QUOTE=NO ONE;34634415]Can we please just wait like a decade before building the next tallest tower? It's like the current one can never stay #1 too long any more.[/QUOTE]
or just do it instead of delaying progress
[QUOTE=XanaToast.;34634380]the place on the 3D render type map looks like something from anno 2070 or Brink[/QUOTE]
Reminds me more of just cause 2 for whatever reason.
Why does a prison for wizards need all this stuff anyway
Maybe just me but looks like something from DragonBall Z
[QUOTE=farmatyr;34634322]Imagine having the office at the top. You'd feel like you own the world.[/QUOTE]
You probably do, since it would cost, a lot.
It's like something straight out of Anno 2070
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The renders must be outdated because it doesn't look like more than 300m tall.
It must be nice to have money
Why did they have to make it look so god damn weird?
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;34634367]I did not expect to hear something like this happening in, of all places, Azerbaijan.[/QUOTE]
Cheap land, lots of it, arabs with more money than they know what to do with it.
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Looks like it's ready for take-off.
Good. This means that even more engineering problems associated with extremely high buildings are solved, which will make it much easier and cheaper to build other high buildings.
Competition sure has its advantages.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;34634393]All of your bones would be broken and you'd be turned to jelly.
At that height, the surface tension of water is just as hard as concrete.[/QUOTE]
mythbusters
(its not)
I thought the burj khalifa was made so it could be built upon, so it remains the tallest building for some time
I don't think the Burj Khalifa is pretty enough to basically replicate but be slightly taller.
I'd much rather the architects make their own style than just "loads and loads of cylinders with a tower going through them".
It's like someone just went "here are bags of cash, now design and build a city that looks like it belongs in the 25th century"
That place will look cool as fuck when/if it is built.
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