#Project: Emerald Of The Emirates (the Crystal Dome), Dubai, Uae
PROJECT: EMERALD OF THE EMIRATES
HEIGHT: 455m
FLOORS: 113
LOCATION: The project will be located near the Dubai Trade Center on the road leading to Sheikh Zayed Road. There is room ? Where
COST:
START DATE
END DATE: 2009

http://www.carglider.org/images/226_dreier_vergleich2.gif

This Project involves construction of a futuristic, space age tower to be known as The Crystal Dome and also as Pearl / Emerald of the Emirates.

The Crystal Dome will serve as the main station for the Dubai Light Rail project. The tower will be a major tourist attraction of Dubai and is also expected to be an architectural landmark. The building will be the biggest exterritorial of the world. The height of the building will be 455m and built up area will be 2.3 million sqm.

Unique features of the project include: Tilted diagonal spiral elevators offering fast access to the building; emergency slides instead of stairs; safeguards against air terrorism and car-parks. The building will introduce a new concept in car-parking. The car-parks will be at the same floor-level as the office or the apartment. This means that the cars will be parked in the backyard of the office or the apartment.

The building will also have 3,000 luxury apartments, 500,000 sqm. of office space, clinics, sports facilities, conference space, a six star hotel, food and retail outlets, leisure parks for children and a wellness centre. The project will have special facilities to supply cool fresh air to all the floors.

The Crystal Dome will be optically "wrapped" by a golden colour glass spiral-ramp forming a "necklace" around the building, and will be used instead of stairs. The most modern magnetic transportations facility will run upwards on the inside. This feature will give visitors, office workers and residents of the Crystal Dome 360° views of Dubai. People will be able to go up the building in small magnet wagons that will also be able to carry their private cars. The wagon will be able to accommodate up-to 5 cars at a time.

Desgins are in final stages and date for Tender it about to be relasesed
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"Have we gone to far or are we ready to go farther?"

So is this still a real project as there is data and prerelase material still floating around ? Does not seem like it but very intrestering

oh my gosh this one is like toyko sky tower material
to be built over the Road interchange at world Trade Round About
Seems very very unliky at this stage now after little more reseach
I have the 2 Meg Pdf relase now if anyone wants it

i think its fabulous, certainly very futuristic. anyone got more pictures ? more info ?

I thought it was confirmed a long time ago that this is a fake project. Did it come back again?

Anyway, here are some pics courtesy Krazy

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/sahmad/1.jpg

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/sahmad/3.jpg

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/sahmad/4.jpg

http://www.carglider.org/images/530_DomeDC.jpg

http://www.carglider.org/images/800_Dome_compaire.jpg

http://www.carglider.org/images/226_dreier_vergleich2.gif


http://www.carglider.org/images/300_PutGifImage_dorf_von_oben_2.gif

http://www.carglider.org/images/300_1_mal_1_a.gif

http://www.carglider.org/images/300_1_mal_1_b.gif

http://www.carglider.org/images/300_mit_q_cut_1.gif

http://www.carglider.org/images/300_Tower%20Parade%20+%20India.jpg

http://www.carglider.org/images/300_innenTurm.jpg

http://www.carglider.org/images/300_qcut_mit_turm_scharf.jpg

yer i think you very right i dont think i will have happen but nice just to see what people think of sorry for the false start !

dont really like it.. hope it doesnt go through.. would ruin the tall slender look to the dubai skyline

I found some information on the visonary project "Emerald of the Emirate"
it is to be built in phases, the floors that get constructed will be occupiable right away instead of waiting for the whole building to be done

its at least 750 meters high (3 towers) taller the the burj Dubai and maybe the Pinnacle

is this really going to be built? or is it just a vision?

well there we two desgins that were put forward for this project but i think it after some research that this project is not real
But having said that Dubai does need a Major Transport hub some where for the Rail for the city, heavy Trains and Bus Depot

I found a website with more information on this project, according to them the tower has a high rate of being built in the near future, which would add more density to this city!

whats the web site ?

www.carglider.org

how do you post pics on threads?

you have to upload them first to web space or image host
www.imagestation.com

sorry site is so crappy as are the renders ! LOL i can belive that I though for a long enough to make a thread this project was real

some of the pics look extremely fake but it would be nice to have a tower like that

The Crystal Dome is listed on the projectdubai.com site as though it will really go ahead. Will it?

this building will ruin dubai's skyline, it is so fat and ugly

yeah right. the model/rendering looks absolutely stupid. but the idea of such a building is very clever

In the photo where it has that Benz symbol on top.... it seems its placed where they are building the new etisalat tower !!

The data on this tower is just too conflicting. I went to the carglider website, and their info is mixed up too.

First of all, Burj Dubai will be taller than 500 meters, there's no doubt about that. Some of the charts above (and on the website) show the dome as being about the height of Petronas, while others show it as being far taller than anything else built (and maybe even taller than Burj Dubai). Some pics have one big dome, while some have 3 or more slender domes. The size of the people shown on the ramp inside the buildings makes the building look pretty small, actually.

Part of the problem is that the carglider website is kinda screwy. They seem to think that cars will actually drive on the ramps inside the building. It looks like a big building, but I hardly think cars will be neccesary to get around it.

This seems like it may somebody's personal idea for a new building, rather than a real proposal. The data is just too conflicting.

Of course, Dubai has done amazing things in the past, so I guess I wouldn't be too surprised to see it there. I hope it doesn't eclipse the Burj Dubai, however. I want BD to be a massive landmark greater than anything in Dubai.


p.s. There are already a few buildings in London that look very similar to the Dome (Foster's Cucumber thing, and the Metropolitan govt. building)

This building stinks of a hoax. Someone's just stretched Foster's Reichstag (German Parliament) dome in Photoshop, that's all.

hey look wat I found on this website: http://www.projectdubai.com/projects.php?prj_id=35&areas=all
It has info on the Crystal Dome and it has given a location of the building on a map and I think a telephone no. and a website which is under construction.
There is also information and pictures about the other projects.I think the onli one thats not there is the discovery gardens.
http://www.projectdubai.com/projects.php?type=&page=1
there are 5 pages worth of projects! It even has a map of Dubai Mairna with all the reclaimation work completed!
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Project Duabi may be basing their data of the same crappy web site
as this project has appeared in may places even cosntrcution week
its like a urban myth !

never a project has been so confusing as this one!!! the project itself is crazy that an approval seems unlikely.

hey SA Boy, do you think you can add this one in ss.com under "vision"

Agh , this one again :(

^lol

that must be a joke. the model of the dome is the strechted version of the reichstag in berlin:

http://www.berlin-reise-dienst.de/images/Kuppel_gross.jpg http://www.kulturplanung.de/Bilder/Reichstag%2011.jpg http://www.proasyl.de/serien/thierse/reichstag.jpg http://nl.wikipedia.org/upload/4/4e/Reichstag.jpg

i can see those details now in eahc of hte images very intresting !
yes its now seems very ovious this is some one pipe dream !

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
yes, it is!!!!! see that for the first time. what a shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this whole project was so strange and now you see it's a stolen design. OMG :wtf:

thanks md (are you german?)!!! although i've been in this reichstag roof about 2 years ago, ididn't notice.

so folks, I'd say, this is proof enough that this project is nothing but hot air.

what a fake!!! i'm still laughing!!!! :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

well i always though it looked like some out some ones bad trip !
but yes this very funny as this thing keeps turning up !

Well maybe the concept drawing of the real thing looks similar to the structure in germany but they had not finished it yet ( did not come up with the final design) so they used this for now !!!

or it could just be hot air :P

i'm going for the second one !

me too, this is too crazy!!! :)

i mean, the company who was selected to develop such a landmark can't take a pic of the reichstag, make it public and then nothing happens. when did this tower go public. quite a long time ago i tink!
they could have given me the job!!! i mean stretching a picture really is a difficult job!!! it comes very close to my capability limits!!!!! :lol: just joking!!! :lol:

we could make our own and put it one line
email a few paper and a few online media release and see how long it takes to come back here !

DUBAI SPHERE OF LIGHT - 128F RELECTIVE GOLD GLASS TOWER SHAPED LIKE GIANT SPHERE ! FLOATING OF THE SHORE OF DUBAI LIKE A PERFECT GOLDEN BALL. Access it only by underwater train to maintain the perfect spherical shape the ball will have. Piers will have to be built to make sure that the ball dose not roll away.
Seem as likey as the preposal above

Dont know if this has been posted earlier... but there is actually a map location out there for this project ?

http://www.projectdubai.com/projects/fixed/prj35_location.jpg

Is this really going ahead?!?!

Is this really going ahead?!?!

no, there are no real plans, publications, info, news,... by municopality or whatever. the rendering for this projects is a stretched photo of the german reichstag! fake alarm!!!

No No Noooo, it is soo ugly and ruin the dubai's skyline :( :(

http://www.projectdubai.com/projects/fixed/prj35_location.jpg

is anyone able to go there and confirm that this is fake? :)

hmmh, maybe they could make it look like one of these towers :D

http://www.tp.spt.fi/~jukarkil/uae/46-2.jpg
(this is some project from china, don't remember where)

i don't think it is fake i've seen it long time ago in the news paper. It was planned to be the "Dubai Train Main Station" and i think the cost was mentioned to be around 1.somthing billion not sure $ or AED.

i don't think it is fake i've seen it long time ago in the news paper. It was planned to be the "Dubai Train Main Station" and i think the cost was mentioned to be around 1.somthing billion not sure $ or AED.

yeah, but the problem is it was a long time ago! nothing happened since then! and the official rendering is a fake! it's the german reichstag! a stretched photo!

the idea of this building is great, but seems unrealistic and i have my doubts evoked by: no info for years, fake rendering, other renderings with a mercedes logo, emirates airlines logo,....

Thanx 4 passing by :) accually the design i've seen was abit different than this one first of all it was made of transperent glass blue to green u know the color right :D anyhow it wasn't golden. Also it was in the DWTC area near SZR

well it may not be fake but it sure is fake renders false publisticy
no intrest and a never was going to be built

might be so ... all we can do is to wait and see

Crystal Dome listed in recently updated Dubai Municipality GIS centre Major Projects map.

Government acknowledgment is a sign of approval.

what? NNnnoooooooo.......

doesn't mean this is approved
as said in the dubai maps thread (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=117709) the pearl has been removed, so maybe they are doing it the same way with this one soon

i don't believe anything until i see it or we get a press release!

Crystal Dome listed in recently updated Dubai Municipality GIS centre Major Projects map.

Government acknowledgment is a sign of approval.

Can You please give me the url,

http://www.gis.gov.ae/en/downloads/downloads.asp?nPage=4

then download the major projects.pdf

ewww
it would really spoil the skyline

http://www.gis.gov.ae/en/downloads/downloads.asp?nPage=4

then download the major projects.pdf

It doesn't have the bay in it?!

if it goes through i hope it gets a better design, because these fake renderings from the berlin reichstag in germany,... ok we better don't talk about it!

business bay should be marked in the next edition
gotta check the website frequently

Website is up, http://www.golden-dome.org/

the whole thing is nuts!!!, i especialy like the air-conditioning, via tornado fom the sub-stratosphere!!!

I REALLY THINK THIS WILL LOOK GREAT ON DA DUBAI SKYLINE, WID DA BURJ DUBAI, AND ALL THESE OTHER FUTURISTIC BUILDINGS. AMAZING!!!!! ROCK ON

scares me to death :D

i will contact them for the status and likelyness!

uhm, you can park your car behind your apartment, even if it's on 100th floor :runaway:

this building have some interesting concepts, but it's soooo ugly :(

http://www.w432.org/golden/web/images/dome-gch.gif
that logo on top should be replaced with some antennas or some nice roof feature

don't like the look of it at all :bash:

this is amazing

Olivator

The Olivator is an innovative elevating technology to transport residents and guests up and down in a high rise building

The Golden Dome will be "wrapped" by a golden color spiral ramp, enclosed like a tube, going up to the top floor and built for use instead of stairs. Modern magnetic levitation wagons designed to carry up to five automobiles with the occupants in them, will run on the spiral ramp, carrying residents and guests to their desired floor of the building.

Often “exterior glass-elevators” have been used for smaller luxury buildings, to provide guests with a nice panoramic view, instead of a concealed enclosed lift-elevator. But, for “domed” buildings and for larger luxury buildings - like the one discussed - it is technically not possible to construct “exterior elevators.” As a modern solution, the golden spiral-ramp takes their place, which gives the user a marvelous 360° observation-radius, as they travel up the spiral ramp in a small magnet wagon carrying them in their own private car. Each wagon can carry approximately five cars.

Only some auxiliary staff-elevators on the interior of the building are needed, for personnel, materials, or the occasional resident or guest, who might dislike the open view as they travel up or down the spiral ramp.

http://www.w432.org/golden/web/images/spiral.jpg

important!!!


Investment Policy

While the royal family of Abu Dhabi has the financial capacity to fund the development and construction of the project, as a matter of policy they will not put up funds for projects in the Abu Dhabi unless the developers bring in significant project funds from third parties. Accordingly, Golden Dome Holdings is in discussions with potential investors including lenders, builders and engineering firms to invest € 10 to € 100 million. When that is accomplished Golden Dome Holdings will proceed with its endeavors to finalize the debt and equity financing for the € 5 Billion required to build the project.

Dubai _ lover think of it this way

every city has/had thir ugly structures

the CN tower , the WTC , and so on :) this might be tacky and more on the side of ugly , BUT ITS FREAKIN HUGE 500 METERS :) AND 200 METERS IN DIAMETER WOOOOOOOOOOW

so the dome will cost how much , whats that currency Euro !!

dazz , if they took down that ugly logo and replaced the brown facade with silvery glass , woaaaah baby yeah

yes 5bn euro!
that's about $4.2bn or aed10.5bn

When that is accomplished Golden Dome Holdings will proceed with its endeavors to finalize the debt and equity financing for the € 5 Billion required to build the project.

and i would invest 10euro :lol:

5billion... uhm... this is never going to happen :)

Dubai-Lover: 1 Euro ~ 1.36 USD, which means the thing is going to cost a whopping USD 6.8bn!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hahaha this building looks like an egg

yes 5bn euro!
that's about $4.2bn or aed10.5bn



and i would invest 10euro :lol:

u must like it a little bit if your willing to donate some money ;)

This is Dubai we're talking about dazz, anything can happen ;)

Dubai-Lover: 1 Euro ~ 1.36 USD, which means the thing is going to cost a whopping USD 6.8bn!!!!!!!!!!!!!


yes

what was i thinking? :wallbash: :doh: :stupid:

I think its mighty ugly but I think its truly ground-breaking not only for Dubai but for the whole world, it will usher in a new era of public and private transportation and highrise living. The design definitely lacks a lot. One thing tho, dont you think a project this big would be designed by a big architect?? It looks like its designed by some 5 year old. I still have my doubts about this project. Plus the website still sucks. We're talking about something that will cost 6bn dollars. Lets wait and see their email reply.

did u send the email AhmedR

Cooling of large buildings such as the Golden Dome in a hot climate requires tremendous amounts of electrical energy. The concept proposed for the Golden Dome is that cool air will be brought into the Golden Dome from an altitude of 3000 to 5000 km by virtue of a man-made tornado that creates a vortex that will suck air down from those higher elevations that has a temperature of only 0° - 10° C at those altitudes.

this things gonna pull planes into it!!!

:), No Im just assuming Dubai-Lover already did!
Alright, alright I am sending one right now.

:), No Im just assuming Dubai-Lover already did!
Alright, alright I am sending one right now.

You betta :)

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hAHA , I didnt read that tornado part , haha :sleepy:

uhm, you can park your car behind your apartment, even if it's on 100th floor :runaway:

this building have some interesting concepts, but it's soooo ugly :(

http://www.w432.org/golden/web/images/dome-gch.gif
that logo on top should be replaced with some antennas or some nice roof feature

The logo is the emirates airline logo.

Guys r u sure that this project is real, i still have my doubts.

Email sent.

This image is why Im skeptical. The spiral rail line is so wobbly and asymmetrical, it shouldnt be hard for an amateur artist to draw a proper looking spiral, let alone a professional architect whos working on what would be the worlds most expensive building by far.
http://www.w432.org/golden/web/images/dome-gch.gif

well that's why they are trying to get 5billion so they could hire professionals :D

i believe it will be built soon..

i still dont trust it
but then in duabi maybe some thing that starts as joke can take off

i still dont trust it
but then in duabi maybe some thing that starts as joke can take off

lol hell ya

A German consortium is planning to build a massive $1 billion residential, leisure and commercial development on Dubai's Shaikh Zayed Road near the Emirates Towers.

The Crystal Dome is a modern concept which will symbolise the hi-tech and touristic activities of Dubai as well as being a world benchmark in architecture, said a spokesman.

The Crystal Dome will be the biggest 'exterritorial' of the world. It will touch a height of 455 m, with a gross area of about 2.3 million sq m.

The InterGlob Euro-Arab Consortium is developing the property, which will also serve as a main station for the Dubai Magno Metro, when implemented.

Construction work will start in January or February and the project will be implemented in stages in five years, said Prof Alexander Wagner, chairman of the group.

He said the project has secured provisional approval from Dubai authorities and financing has been arranged from a German real estate fund.

The dome will have unique features that offer fast access to the building; new elevator technology (tilted diagonal spiral elevators); emergency slides (spirals) instead of endless stairs; Safety against air pirate terrorism; Comfort car parking at personal floor-level - own cars are parked in the backyard of the apartments.

Instead of building two separate buildings - one as a parking house and one for business and living - with the disadvantage that the walking distance is long, the Crystal Domes combines both areas. This gives a maximum comfort to the inhabitants.

The Crystal Dome will provide space for about 3,000 residences or luxury apartments and 500,000 sq m of space for business offices.

It will have clinics, sport facilities, conference space, and a six-star hotel, food and other shops, as well as a leisure park for children of the working parents and a wellness centre.

The project is estimated to cost around $1 billion. Most of the costs will be covered by the sales of the luxury apartments.

The Crystal Dome will be optically 'wrapped' by a golden colour glass spiral-ramp (enclosed like a tube) forming a 'necklace', while going up to the top. (The most modern magnetic transportation facility will run upwards on the inside).

The Dome is wrapped by two spirals (one upward, the other downward) at a distance of 10 m. Considered a gradient of 1:15 it takes 3 km to climb up the 450 m. With a speed of 60 km (which is low) it takes 3 minutes to the top, which is very comfortable.

One turn of the spiral is about 600 m with a gain in heights of 90 m. This gives 5 windings of the spiral up to the top if a steepness of 15 per cent (8.5°) is considered. For the up and down spiral it gives 10 windings in total.

The spirals are used also for emergency escape instead of stairs. Both spirals (up and down spiral) can be used as emergency slide exits.

The dome will also address the issue of air-terrorism. The domes are Kamikaze-crash protected. Like an aircraft carrier warship, which catches arriving fighter-jets with landing ropes, the vertical ropes or 'tow-rods' of the Dome, which are holding together the spiral arms, will protect the Dome. The spiral ramp, which wraps around the Dome - and in which the magnet train moves - is linked vertically with strong and highly resistant glass-fibre ropes or tow rods, that will catch any aircraft which might try to aim at the Dome in a suicide-attack.

Cooling of high-rise domes in a hot climate, consumes a tremendous amount of electrical energy, which increases the cost of living considerably. The concept of the Crystal Dome provides a solution, by designing the light tube in such a way, that the tube is used simultaneous as a fresh cool air supplier to all of the hundred floors.

The tube creates an artificial tornado, that reaches up to 3 km - 5 km high, and sucks down the cool air, that has a temperature of only 0° - 10° (or less) at this altitude (Vortex effect).

The inhabitants can breathe fresh, natural, and clean air, without any pollution, which is sucked down from those cool altitudes.

The Dome will have a central tube 'atrium' for bringing down light and air. This 50 m diameter central tube is surrounded by offices. The office rooms will obtain their light from the mirror system of the central tube (atrium) and will take in also the cool air from there. The apartments have a distance end to end (radius segment) of 25 m and a personalized width, which can be individually chosen by the companies.

This is the same consorcium that has build the magnatrain in Shanghai China, and were thinking to do the same in Dubai, but it seams that Municipality considered the project very expensive so cancel it and weent with a rail one.

However we don't know if this will be build or not.

Let's wait and see. Maybe they are trying to figure out a (enginering) way to build it.

@hg3z15aa_1, where did you get this article? I think its a very old one from that fake maglev website.

http://www.expo-centre.ae/front/pressdetails.asp?PID=7

I'm skeptical.

Dang internet wont let this one die

This is the same consorcium that has build the magnatrain in Shanghai China, and were thinking to do the same in Dubai, but it seams that Municipality considered the project very expensive so cancel it and weent with a rail one.

However we don't know if this will be build or not.

Let's wait and see. Maybe they are trying to figure out a (enginering) way to build it.
This might have been the same consorcium that tried the Magnet Train in Hong Kong too, I'll have to check on it first.

There is only one consorcium that tried to sell the Magnet Train to every corner of the globe, so it must be it.

http://www.w432.org/golden/web/images/coupe6.jpg

http://www.w432.org/golden/web/images/coupe5.gif

http://www.w432.org/golden/web/images/dome2.jpg

Ok now this is serious stuff... .looks like this is not a fake vision after all !!!

The designated chairman of the board of directors of Golden Dome Holdings is a member of the Royal family of Abu Dhabi. He has assured GDH that the approximately 300 hectares of land necessary for the project will be available for acquisition by the project. Another director is Frank Wagner, a shareholder of the Swiss/German corporation that owns part, and controls part, of the magnetic levitation technology this is contemplated to be included in the building. He has committed to obtaining for the project a royalty free license for use of that technology in the project. The third director, Adam Good, is the managing director of a consulting group that conducted the negotiation between the director with access to the magnetic levitation technology and the member of the Royal Family of Abu Dhabi, and who has committed on a best efforts basis to obtain the required funding for the project.

Investment Policy

While the royal family of Abu Dhabi has the financial capacity to fund the development and construction of the project, as a matter of policy they will not put up funds for projects in the Abu Dhabi unless the developers bring in significant project funds from third parties. Accordingly, Golden Dome Holdings is in discussions with potential investors including lenders, builders and engineering firms to invest € 10 to € 100 million. When that is accomplished Golden Dome Holdings will proceed with its endeavors to finalize the debt and equity financing for the € 5 Billion required to build the project.



Ok I'm confused... I thought this project was in Dubai... why are they talking about it being in Abu Dhabi?

maybe abu dhabi finances and manages this project?

i still don't trust all of this

i want to see FACTS! :D

i don't think AbuDhabi would finance a Government project such as this one which is meant to be the main station of the Metro.. it's not how the things work here :) btwone of the renders had the Emirates Airlines logo on it . So it will be financed and managed by Dubai's Gov.

as u can c in the third pic in post #93 .. this is an old pic of SZR it was taked when first this project was introduced in the News paper long time ago as u can c their is no sign of the Emirates Towers or the Tower next to it..

those towers are further down, you can see the edge of the trade centre apartment blocks in the far right of the picture. its realitivly new, post 2003, as the exhibition halls have their new reflective glass facades.

weird it's a mixture between past and present :D

WTF is the big green thing behind the building in that picture though?

^ LOL.. looks like Aladdin's lamp

BIg green thing could be tree from the new park ?
Still i belive this one started of with Hype and fake visiosn with a snow ball chance in heck of making it. But in UAE it might just be possible for it to come to life. Stili will hold all judgement till it breaks ground ( which is very unlikely )

http://www.carglider.org/images/226_augen_2.jpg

when did this end up back on http://www.emporis.com/ ?

cam in http://www.dubai-city.de/index.htm

that site seems a little old look at the version of the Burj Dubai they have !!!!
http://www.visitdubai.info/startseite/tower.png

It's a good thing they redesigned the Burj Dubai, the old version wasn't really good looking

hey that one was ment for Australia in Melbourne !

that site seems a little old look at the version of the Burj Dubai they have !!!!
http://www.visitdubai.info/startseite/tower.png

thes is BURJ DUBAI

I MEN THES

http://www.dubai-city.de/news_aus_dubai/the_golden_dome_dubai.png


Ein weiteres spektakuläres Projekt ist in Dubai wieder in Planung. Es nennt sich "The Golden Dome Dubai" und es soll wie eine vergoldete Haube aussehen. The Golden Dome wird über 120 Geschosse verfügen und soll ein 6 Sterne Hotel, Büros, Appartements mit Panorama View, Kliniken, eine Universität, Sportanlagen und eine Mall verfügen. An der Außenhaut des Gebäudes soll einmal eine Bahn in einer Steigung von 1:10 4,5 Kilometer bis nach oben fahren.

IN HER http://www.dubai-city.de/index.htm

yes again if the old image of the Burj Dubai is any thing to do by the info is years old

wasnt the old burj dubai, a building that didnt get built in melbourne, called the grollo?

correct
but i still don't get why this has something to do with the burj dubai
very weird

The crystal dome still has its plot on the new map!???

http://www.gis.gov.ae/en/downloads/pdfs/Major%20Projects.pdf

yes
but maybe it has just appeared and will soon disappear again, just like this "the pearl project" between palm j and palm ja

might be...
or we can still hope...
but guess not.actually i even don't want it to be built...

if its on the map, we cant count it out as a fake project

perhaps just a 'vision'???

mhm it wouldn't be on the map then i gues...
chess city is not on the map....
but can we really take crystal dome more serious than the waterfront cause it is on the map..

cant belive that some thing started as fake vision or very wish full thinking with such poor mock ups could get to the stage where it could be though as almost a concept that might happen

The faxt that the municipality have actualy given it a plot suggests its far more substantial than the jewel e.t.c.
im sure somthing will be built there, its prime location! [right next to my old house!]

I guess it will be in the Square park so it's closer to reality than ever

you're right

and it is still in the governments' project map

there still is hope and with the permission of unlimited heights the hope for this project comes to life again :D

you're right

and it is still in the governments' project map

there still is hope and with the permission of unlimited heights the hope for this project comes to life again :D
Hope So i'd really like to see this project alive :D

yes, but some little changes in the design have to be made
who wants to see this ugly roof feature? anyone?

yes post it please

they have to get rid of that tacky color... no actually scrap that. i hate this project. i hope it never becomes a part of Dubai's skyline!

i actually think it would be pretty cool looking, but certain changes in the design would have to be made, i mean, i hate that Emirates logo at the top, thats gotta go, and the Golden color, thats gotta go too, too ugly,
then again, seeing the monorail spiral climb this thing, would be pretty cool,

park square..didnt even think of that...it is same plot...
we will see...
but i am not sure if i want that to be built..

Ye i saw this project mention in a few places....

I think its a really cool project buttttttt not a building for shiekh zayed road...

Maybe in middle of dubai land or somewhere around there...

for sheikh zayed road this thing is too huge, only slim buildings are nice there

This was just a vision that never left the drawing board.

it did!

it just got copied to another one in the municipality!

it was not a very professional vision to begin with as well

i dont think its fake but what i can assuse is that it was cancelled with the Magno-train so can we change the title ?

we should have done its vision abeit a very poor one but still vision