Anyone know of any 1 billion + dollar skyscrapers.!!!

[YAHRZEIT]

please post here.!!! much pleased

[Philip Cronin]

please post here.!!! much pleased

I believe HSBC paid Canary Wharf plc £780 million for the freehold of its headquarters at Canary Wharf, London, which is well over a billion dollars. I doubt that it cost a billion dollars to build though.

[TallBox]

LBT will apparently cost well over $1 billion

[Ellatur]

AOL-TWC was about 1.7 billion dollars
the most spent on a single building in US i believe

http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=63363&highlight=time+warner

[lenicrombie]

http://pages.prodigy.net/wjake/image/casino.jpg



crown casino in melbourne cost over a billion

[Monkey]

LBT will apparently cost well over $1 billion
Same for Minerva I believe.

[Macca-GC]

http://pages.prodigy.net/wjake/image/casino.jpg



crown casino in melbourne cost over a billion


And the value of it now days would be I would say around $1.5-$2 billion, after they built the Crown Promenade Hotel.

[Macca-GC]

Although it's not a skyscraper, the Australian Parliament House cost AU$1.1 billion in 1988. Arguably, one of the most beautiful government buildings on Earth

http://www.pm.gov.au/aus_in_focus/kids/tour/house.jpg

View from the top of Flag Mast:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/features/aph/img/parl-mast-a.jpg

http://www.peo.gov.au/images/history_1.jpg

[vincent]

Taipei 101, Hong Kong HSBC are both $1billion + skyscrapers

[R@ptor]

I think the Burj al Arab was the most expensive building ever with construction costs of around $2 billion!!!

[Chad]

Mori Tower., Tokyo.

[Ellatur]

chad what does your kickimus gluteus maximus mean?
i was always curious of what it meant :)

[hkskyline]

Gluteus Maximus = Butt

[YAHRZEIT]

2 billion dollars shit thats alot of dollars.!!!

[dcb11]

Well I know HSBC in Hong Kong was well over a billion dollars (US$), and was, at the time, the most expensive building ever built.

[domer248]

Fallsview casino, Niagara Falls.

[city of the future]

Burj Dubai over 2 billion
Dubailand 4 billion

[STR]

The Sears Tower has 3 mortgages that total $US1.1 billion. Does that count?

[Vlad the Great]

Goldman Sachs world HQ (Downtown Manhattan, not JC) will cost over a bil, even though it it only 40 stories....

[Latin l0cO]

Although it's not a skyscraper, the Australian Parliament House cost AU$1.1 billion in 1988. Arguably, one of the most beautiful government buildings on Earth

http://www.pm.gov.au/aus_in_focus/kids/tour/house.jpg

View from the top of Flag Mast:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/features/aph/img/parl-mast-a.jpg

http://www.peo.gov.au/images/history_1.jpg

That parlianment house i beautifully designed.

[Macca-GC]

^It is the icon of democracy in south-east Asia. And you'ld be absolutely amazed at what is below there. You could pretty much run the world from under there.

I wish I had photos of it just after 9/11. It became Fortress Australia. The public wasn't allowed near it for a couple of weeks, and now pernamently can't walk up the roof. Inside the Australian Parliament house, there is the second largest tapestry on Earth, one of three copies of the Magna Carta and the table that Queen Victoria officially signed Australia's independance on in 1901. They are just a few of the many artifacts in there.

[Hitesh]

^It is the icon of democracy in south-east Asia. And you'ld be absolutely amazed at what is below there. You could pretty much run the world from under there.


Australia is not part of or will ever be part of south east asia.
and nationalistic pride aside, i dont think australia can ever be an icon of democracy. its a country that only acknowledged aborigines were people (yes you read that correctly, prior to that they were considered 'fauna & flora') in the 1960s. Yes, less than 40 years ago.

[Macca-GC]

Yes, and not everyone supports that. But you have to use your brain, Hitesh. 40 years ago, the world was a different place. Black people weren't treated the same a white people then. And not just in Australia, but all around the world. I'm not saying that that was good policy, I'm just saying that that is how things WERE.

Secondly, Australia is probably the least corrupt government on EARTH! Australia is a symbol of Democracy. ESPECIALLY IN SE ASIA, if not the world. And if it wasn't, what is? The corrupt PNG government? Indonesia's rookie democracy? Malaysia? Thailand? WHAT COUNTRY IN THE SEA REGION IS MORE DEMOCRATIC THAN AUSTRALIA?

[hypermount]

I wouldn't consider Australia a part of SEA.

Democracy has its flaws and not perfect. What makes you think Australia's democracy is superior or being more democratic is better. I would just say the mould of Australian's democracy is just different from the rest in the region.

I don't know...I'm asking myself this since when Australia is considered a symbol of democracy, nobody knows that, nobody isn't ignorant about that, nobody thinks that way...this is the very country who supported an illegal war based on an invalid reason, this is the very country who said she got the right to strike terrorist targets in SEA without considering first the views of other nations...you know that kind of pre-emptive thingy. It's a plain show arrogance and self-rightenous altitude which also could be found in the above post.

If Australia really care about democracy, it would listen to other countries who are not in favour invading Iraq...nah...I wouldn't think much...just simply say democracy is not perfect.

[a_ndy21]

Austrailia might as well be SEA its just they didnt want to be associated with brown people so they called it oceania!

[MILIUX]

Australia is not part of South East Asia. Australia is a contenant. We're located in Asia Pacific Region.

[Macca-GC]

The Greater South-East Asia Region.

And Australia did listen to other country's opinions about Iraq. We just made our own decision. And really, where do you draw the line for an 'illegal war?' If the coalition's war in Iraq was illegal, then so was every Israeli war. Infact, there have been several small wars fought since the UN was created, that haven't had their support. Does that make them all illegal? According to you guys, yes. But why do you keep coming back to this one 'illegal' war? Why don't you keep having a go at the USSR's attack on Afghanistan? Because it was 20 years ago. WAS IT STILL 'ILLEGAL?' HELL YES!

That's my :2cents:

[punkstarbassist101]

The Greater South-East Asia Region.

And Australia did listen to other country's opinions about Iraq. We just made our own decision. And really, where do you draw the line for an 'illegal war?' If the coalition's war in Iraq was illegal, then so was every Israeli war. Infact, there have been several small wars fought since the UN was created, that haven't had their support. Does that make them all illegal? According to you guys, yes. But why do you keep coming back to this one 'illegal' war? Why don't you keep having a go at the USSR's attack on Afghanistan? Because it was 20 years ago. WAS IT STILL 'ILLEGAL?' HELL YES!

That's my :2cents:

This one supposed illegal war is happening right now and can be stopped that is why people keep coming back to this illegal war. Also as for australia being a continent on its own isnt australia on the continent of australiasia? I think I've heard it in geography class before. Its made up of australia and the islands around it.

[LeCom]

I wonder what's the cheapest skyscraper to build.

[FerrariEnzo]

AOL TWC cost well over that. The Goldman Sachs building in NYC will cost over 2.1 Billion.

[Macca-GC]

This one supposed illegal war is happening right now and can be stopped that is why people keep coming back to this illegal war. Also as for australia being a continent on its own isnt australia on the continent of australiasia? I think I've heard it in geography class before. Its made up of australia and the islands around it.

The Australian Continental Plate includes India, Australia and Parts of Indonesia, PNG and New Zealand. The Contintental shelf around Australia connects onto the Asian contintental shelf.

[hypermount]

The Australian Continental Plate includes India, Australia and Parts of Indonesia, PNG and New Zealand. The Contintental shelf around Australia connects onto the Asian contintental shelf.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/egifs/Earthsplates.GIF

Southeast asia should be part of Europe then by using your reasoning....

Quit lecturing us about democracy... australia is no better

http://www.thenausea.com/elements/usa/iraq%202004/06/2004%2004%20postcards/images/3.jpg

http://www.thenausea.com/elements/usa/iraq%202004/06/2004%2004%20postcards/images/1b.jpg

What a shame a good man like powell is kicked out

[Macca-GC]

*sarcasm* What a shame people like you aren't incontrol of any major country.*/sarcasm*

At least we stand up for what we believe in instead of doing what other people say we should.

And just because SE Asia is on the same continental plate as Europe, doesn't mean that SEA is part of Europe. That's like saying that India is a part of Australia.

I said the Greater South-East Asia REGION

[AndrewC]

That parlianment house i beautifully designed.

Lovely - but westminster and the US capitol are better methinks.

[dom]

Nagoya Station's Twin Towers, Roppongi Hills Tower and the AOL Time Warner Centre are the 3 most expensive towers to date in that order (non-adjusted for inflation).

Nagoya Station is the world's largest by floor area. 2 massive 50 storey skyscrapers and 15-20 storeys of shops between them. It's mammoth. As is Roppongi Hills tower in Tokyo.....this has some of the largest floorplates of any skyscraper.

I imagine that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Buildings in Shinjuku weren't cheap either. Japan might be in a recession but its still absolutely loaded.

[Chad]

chad what does your kickimus gluteus maximus mean?
i was always curious of what it meant :)

Kick+ass+hard.....;)

[Chad]

I wonder what's the cheapest skyscraper to build.

I'm afraid that would be in China.

[Macca-GC]

What about the Pentagon? How much would that have cost to build in today's money?

It cost $83,000,000 in 1942

[dom]

I'm sure the Pentagon was more expensive if you adjust it for inflation. The figures for Roppongi Hills and Nagoya Station are unadjusted for inflation.

[Philip Cronin]

Austrailia might as well be SEA its just they didnt want to be associated with brown people so they called it oceania!

It must feel so good being a smug liberal and throwing around random false racism slurs.

[Macca-GC]

I'm sure the Pentagon was more expensive if you adjust it for inflation. The figures for Roppongi Hills and Nagoya Station are unadjusted for inflation.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Does anyone know what $83 million in 1942 would be worth these days?

[STR]

^$892,473,000.

http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/pol_sci/fac/sahr/cv2004.pdf

[Macca-GC]

Close to a billion

[gothicform]

london bridge tower will cost 1.2 billion pounds, thats over 2 billion dollars. this makes it i believe the worlds most expensive skyscraper.
london is the place though where you spend say £300 million simply buying land. britannic house sold for £300 million and natwest tower for £226 million.

[dom]

Wasn't the HSBC tower in Hong Kong amazingly expensive as well?

To be honest Gothic, although the LBT renders look lovely, the TMGB in Shinjuku are absolutely massive, as is Nagoya Station and Roppongi Hills. I can't imagine that the LBT would cost more than these. Per square foot the LBT is probably more but these 3 are massive, massive buildings.....around 4 million square feet each!