Seen by Jason F. on January 3 2010:
Every time I see the Burj Dubai tower over the surrounding skyline, I think of Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Totally different buildings, but similar skyline standouts.
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9 comments so far
Gaudi 03 Jan 10
Yes, except. Sagrada Familla is not finished & you take photos from certain angle (no torre agbar).
Final design removes more of the similarity: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2232673/the_sagrada_familia_finished_in_3d/
Skyline-wise, you can say the same about the tour d’eiffel http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/84842653_6ef0127744.jpg
ciao
Antonio
Phil 03 Jan 10
Man for some reason I didn’t think it was quite THAT much taller then everything else in Dubai.
Jagath 03 Jan 10
What about the Petronas twin towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia? They bear a close similarity too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronas_Twin_Towers
Andrej Gregov 03 Jan 10
The Dubai tower reminds me of Frank Lloyd Wright’s mile high tower.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illinois
IMHO , Wright’s building is a far more elegant tower from a design perspective.
Matthew Moore 03 Jan 10
I wonder what the sway is like at the top of the Burj Dubai. Sometimes the sway at 30 stories makes me queasy. They say that is one of the big reasons the Illinois was never seriously considered.
One thing that’s interesting about the Illinois is that it was meant to house all of the local, state, and some federal government functions.
I’d be afraid to work there or anywhere near it :)
John McGarvey 03 Jan 10
It may be a completely different shape, but I think the Duomo in Florence stands out every bit as much as these buildings too:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmcga/3927379932/
Impressively, it was completed in 1436!
Beerzie 04 Jan 10
Every time I see this, I think of what an incredible waste of resources this unsustainable ego trip is. Yuck.
Anthony 05 Jan 10
Whenever I see this tower I think about the fact that it was built by modern day slave labor.
“Toiling away in heat that reaches 50 Centigrade, the slaves of Dubai are the unseen and unheard workforce that has constructed this mecca of extravagant waste of natural resources (water) and consumerism.”
http://humanrights.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/04/15/slaves-of-dubai/
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-a-morally-bankrupt-dictatorship-built-by-slave-labour-1828754.html
Anonymous Coward 06 Jan 10
this is so amazing
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