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Where to find this tower?

Started by grbac, March 02, 2009, 02:37:24 AM

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grbac

....and what is its' name.


Thanks

Scarton

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That is the Al Burj. It was originally made by Ks_jpn, but I believe he lost the file or something. For the longest time no one could download it, but someone has recently uploaded this tower to rapidshare. Here's the URL:
Edit: Link removed as it is not permitted to pass files without the creator's permission.

grbac

TY TY TY. But seems like the AL Burj is no more. It is Nakheel Harbour Tower. Or is it..? &Thk/(

RippleJet

Quote from: grbac on March 02, 2009, 05:07:23 AM
TY TY TY. But seems like the AL Burj is no more. It is Nakheel Harbour Tower. Or is it..? &Thk/(

Yes... ::)

Al Burj (Arabic "The Tower") was proposed in 2003 as the centrepiece of Palm Jumeirah, one of the world's largest man-made islands. It was to be named "The Pinnacle" and rise from the centre of a canal on the trunk of the island. The height was to be 750 m (2,461 ft) tall and consist of 120 floors of luxury apartments but it was replaced by the Trump International Hotel and Tower and moved to the Dubai Waterfront. Although ground levelling and land reclamation had begun on the Dubai Waterfront, construction of the tower never started because of the proximity to the Al Maktoum International Airport.
The location has now been changed again to a plot near Jumeirah Lake Towers and Dubai Marina, and soil testing has begun. The tower will be the focal point of the developer's, Nakheel's plans for the Ibn Battuta Mall development next to Jumeirah Islands and Jumeirah Lake Towers. It will be the center of the Nakheel Harbour and Tower complex, which will include about 20 smaller towers of up to 90 stories, a marina, and part of the Arabian Canal.

There are three names that have been proposed for the tower. Al Burj, Tall Tower, and Nakheel Tower. None have officially been decided yet although Al Burj is most commonly used. It is most likely that no official name will be given until the tower is approved. Currently the most probable name for the building is Nakheel Tower. The first name given to the tower was Al Burj. The name Al Burj stuck for the longest period of any of the three names. After Al Burj the project was then named Tall Tower. This name only lasted a few months until being switched to the current name, Nakheel Tower.

Projections of Al Burj's final height have varied widely. Nakheel is believed to be engaging in a strategy of secrecy similar to that employed by Emaar with the Burj Dubai. According to officials at Nakheel, the tower was originally designed to be at least 700 m (2,297 ft) tall and have more than 160 floors, although an early render showed the tower with more than 200 floors. Companies involved in the project reported an initial height expectation of 1,600 m (5,249 ft) which was later reduced to 1,200 m (3,937 ft). The latest redesign renamed the project to Nakheel Tower, with a single tower over 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) tall.

In July, 2007, Nakheel CEO Chris O'Donnell was reported to have said that "height isn't everything" and suggested that Al Burj might not be any taller than the Burj Dubai, which is 818 m (2,684 ft). Yet only a week later, Nakheel reaffirmed that the tower would be taller than 1 kilometre. A report on June 20th, 2008 claimed that the tower is planned to be 1,400 metres (4,593 ft) tall.

The version presented ks_jpn batted in August, 2006, while the project still was called Al Burj, is 1,030 metres tall to the top of the masts.




And this bat is now available on the LEX as a stage 15 R§§§ :)

 

grbac

Thank you RippleJet as well on this through answer.