Tower: The Index
Floors: 86
Height: 328m
Type: Res + Com
Status: Approved
Location: Dubai International Financial Centre
Facilities: 520 high-end residential apartments, including 12 penthouses; 25 floors of office accommodation- mid-level sky lobby with recreational facilities, e.g. swimming pool,managed gymnasium, bar and restaurants - low-level retail
Parking: 2,681 car parking spaces: 768 residential spaces, 1,868 office spaces
45 visitor spaces
Gross internal area: Office: 66,508m²
Residential: 96,963m²
Net internal area: Office: 51,407m²
Residential: 74,910m²
Typical office floor plate: Low rise: 2,195m²
High rise: 2,080m²
Net retail area: 5,985m²
Apartments: 520 apartments (264 one-bed, 208 two-bed, 36 three-bed, 12
penthouses)
Structure: Four large tapering A-frame concrete ‘fins’, which are buttressed at the
East and West elevation, forming the basis of the building structure.
25 levels of office accommodation and 47 levels of residential
apartments are held within this structure
Cladding: It is designed to minimise adverse climatic effects on the building. It is
orientated so that the East and West cores shelter the floor plates from
the intense heat of the sun in this region. Sun shades are used on the
South façade to minimise the effect of solar gain.
Features: Each office floor plate is comprised of three 27m x 27m column free bays.
These long span structures allow maximum flexibility for space planning.
It is suitable for large international financial corporations and can also be
subdivided for multiple tenancies.
The design features a fully glazed double height sky lobby in between the
offices and apartments, occupying an entire level of the building. This
accommodates spaces for recreational activities such as a swimming
pool, a managed gymnasium, bars and restaurants, emphasising views
towards the city and coast.
The building is strategically designed to accentuate the metropolitan view
of Dubai International Finance Centre on the North side and the Dubai
cityscape on the South.
The landscape concept at podium level aims to provide an integrated
layout comprising formal boulevards and open spaces as public and
pedestrian links to the DIFC Master Plan. Expansive, elegant pools of
water at entrance level, together with planting and shaded areas are
adopted to create a comfortable and calming environment. Integrated
into the landscaping will be areas providing high quality restaurants, bars
and cafes to be used by both offices and residents during and after office
hours.
Lifts: 8 passenger lifts for low rise office
12 passenger lifts for high rise office
4 high speed residential passenger shuttle lifts
4 residential local passenger lifts
2 office goods lifts
1 residential goods lift
Construction Start: 2005
Construction End: 2008

http://207.44.228.232/photopost/data//500/2One_Central_Park.jpg

Other info:

Foster and Partners architects and designers London
Berlin
Singapore
Riverside Three
22 Hester Road
London SW11 4AN
Tel
Fax
020 7738 0455
020 7738 1107|08
One Central Park
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2005 - 2008
Credits
Client: Union Properties
Architect: Foster and Partners
Norman Foster
David Nelson
Andy Miller
Toby Blunt
Edson Yabiku
Bob Atwal
Dara Towhidi
Wing Kei Wong
Emanuele Mattutini
Ho Ling Cheung
Gary Owen
Jarrett Pelletier
Sunphol Sorakul
Consultants
Structural Engineers: Halvorson and Partners
Services Engineers: Roger Preston & Partners
Cost Consultant: Currie & Brown
Project Manager: edara / APP
Collaborating Architect: Khatib & Alami

UP, 80-storey One Central Park

Union Properties is set to unveil its 80-storey landmark building One Central Park tomorrow. Freehold opportunities at this tower located in the Dubai International Financial Centre will be on offer at the Sheikh Rashid Hall in the DWTC Convention Centre from 9am to 7pm.

^ Someone please go and try to get pictures of the model if they have it or some renders !!!

that is just awesome
one more supertall

good to know there will be tall towers behind the current towers at szr

cant wait till a render comes out... this is exciting.... central park...emirates towers, badriya tower, rose rotana, salam tower, 21st century, park place... all on the same block !!!! :runaway:

Giles please add this to emporis

i guess we need some more info on this one?
anyway i'll add it to the portal today

Well they are already selling the property so its pretty much confirmed.

Wow, another supertall...
nice..
i guess it will be over 350?If Almas is already 350 with only 64F...
Hope it will have a stunning design...!

a nice surprise for a tuesday, will do so

and its Dubais 400th building-well done guys, when I started this exercise there were only about 150 listed

theres a huge render in todays gulf news.

well, scan it in!!

Ill go look now

Thanks Giles !

So if you guys can't scan it in, what does it look like?

Is "The Tower" also a property of Union Properties? If so, we can hope for some classy architecture

guys... THE PICTURE!!!!

if you could share it that would be great.

Ok here the low down, ist 80 floors, its mixed use with residential above offices, Nice crown and pretty bland shaft. Architects are Fosters and partners and its blue glass with contineous curtin walling over offices and balconies etc above. Big triple volum base and entrance
6/10

archi tects contact details for height and renders enquiries@fosterandpartners.com

will contact them today also for render

contacted them for render height and estimated completion date.
see if they are faster and better than most companies...

for now i can just give a rough location for this tower
central park will be behind 21st century down to dusit hotel, so it's gonna be somewhere between these two, but about 200m behind them

Union Properties is set to unveil its 80-storey landmark building One Central Park tomorrow. Freehold opportunities at this tower located in the Dubai International Financial Centre will be on offer at the Sheikh Rashid Hall in the DWTC Convention Centre from 9am to 7pm.
from ame info
R

Dubai developers build higher
Dubai developers have increased the height of new projects this year with 80-plus storeys now emerging on a regular basis. The Princess Tower and Ocean Heights in the Dubai Marina are both above 80 storeys, while Union Properties' tower in the Dubai International Financial Centre is also a super-tall skyscraper.
R

is there nobody who can post a pic of the ad in the newspapers? :(

I tried to find a render on the foster webbsite but there is no mention of this tower under projcts at all

theres a huge render in todays gulf news.

well what happened to it???

well, i contacted fosters, union properties
i checked the websites
i surfed the web and googled

result: :D niente, nada, rien, nothing, nix, njet

nix

me!!!???

:lol:

"nix" is an abbreviation for the german word "nichts", it means "nothing" in english
not nick :D



giles - you said you have seen it somewhere? construction week? any chance to take a photo and send me via email?

lol, there were 4 'nicks' in my class. i became nix.

i always knew id amount to nothing... :ohno: :ohno: :ohno:

dennis
it was in the gulf news a few days ago, dont have the newspaper anymore,Im sure we will see it soon in the press

Contacted UP for render, official height and the contractors and architects for this tower. Lets see if they reply.

Architects are Foster and partners

I willl be there on Friday maybe i can take a looks some where ?

Trances, you're going to be in Dubai next Friday?

yes i arrive on friday for a few days
the time has come for my return all most 6 months the changes i will see !
wil vist all the offices i can i that saturday/sunday
friday will be driving around taking as many photo of the maria as i can and other areas
but i wont be back to post them for two weeks

What a plan? I dont know if I should wish you a good time, i dont know if its possible for you to have fun if thats how you've planned it out? But anyways hope you have a good time.

do you know what is depressing?

no info on www.difc.ae
no info on www.up.ae
no info on www.fosterandpartners.com

no reply from up
no reply from fosters

:rant:

difc takes ages for any update

i got a partial render of the tower and let me describe with this: :eek:
pic very soon

and here we go, just a partial one but still fine

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/11020One_Central_Park.jpg

seems odd
I am having trouble getting an idea of this one still

Looks very good though.

Where did you find the render Dennis??

www.up.ae
site updated today, watch the flash animation

why are there no proper renders of this tower?
is it even real?
its starting to smell a little like another crystal dome from here...

The tower will be released on Feb 23rd, so till then we might not get the full render.

There was another tower, some times ago, that was released first partially and some days later they publisched the full render.

was it in the newspapers?

how is it classed as aproved if its not anounced.

i think it should be reclased as 'vision' or 'rumour'

why you ask?

because im pedantic and bitter about not seeing it in the paper :(

was it in the newspapers?

No, no, it is a old story. I think it was one of the other towers in DIFC. Smussuw posted first only renders of the base and a couple of days later we got the full render.

why are there no proper renders of this tower?
is it even real?
its starting to smell a little like another crystal dome from here...
This is deffinatly going ahead, It was in the papers, adds have been taken out and even the new DIFC render ( now up next to the gate) shows this tower in the background . Its location based on this render is behind the Dusit -ish

They have a four page advertorial in the Gulf News. Scanning the image wont be produce a good quality image. Must try to get hold of a high res rendering.

And it seems its a see through building! Talk about transparency in the Gulf hehe.

They have a four page advertorial in the Gulf News. Scanning the image wont be produce a good quality image. Must try to get hold of a high res rendering.

could you take a normal photo of it?
i think this would be enough for now, just to have an impression of the whole tower

Im gettin irritated now, its been way to long for us not to have a single freakin render !! :rant:

Freaking render it is. ..
http://img224.exs.cx/img224/3108/ocp22hv.jpg
Dont you hate scanning newspapers?

thanx !! added it to the first post

not bad i'd say
and it looks rather small and wide somehow

Architect - Norman Foster.
Norman & Foster (http://www.fosterandpartners.com)

Nothing on their website though. Maybe they will update soon.

The Tower seems to be fully transparent,atleast on the bottom part. Now thats the only feature worth mentioning. Apart from that it looks like flattened saw tooth. Sad.

80 storeys.
27 business levels.
3 levels of retail shops

eughhhhh
yuck
thats discusting
its the most awfull tower in dubai, its like vomiting sushi!
makes essa tower look like an artistic masterpice.
its foul this building is absoloutly stomach renching.
how can the authorities allow this!
this will cause even more of those articles calling dubai tacky!

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
i need to go shoot myself :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash:

I don't like it, nothing special at all, and I don't see any harmony or balance struck in that building. Just hope it might turn out to be better when it's done.

hard to say anything yet about this building without seeing the sideview, but it has some potential I think. come on, you guys are so spoiled..., that if the building isn't extremely modern & piece of art you already are planning to make a suicide :D

hmmh, is there really some "holes" next to those windows or are those apartments without light.

I hope that this building will reach 300m, although it doesn't have a spire...

I've got to say, this building is uninspiring architecturally, and I can't believe we're going to have to put with up this terrible thing. Honestly, the architect of this building should go back to primary school and work better in Art lessons!

was the site down for a minute? i could not post anything and finally i saw two posts in the thread?! :bash:
maybe my mind is disturbed because of this crappy building... :cheers:

uähhhhh i mummy help me. i would say it is well, ugly?
at least in that picture it is one of the ugliest tower i have ever seen in my whole short life...
mamma mia.
hope it is surrounded by other towers, so that nobody sees it.
Hope it will look better, though it is still ugly when looking a little bit better for sure ;) , in a better render.
D-L how can you call it "not bad" ?
i expected you to have a better taste. ;) :)

it's not disgusting, but the design really has some potential
but it's scanned from a newspaper! :puke: and the angle in that render is awful as well

it's always the same: when buildings are finished they always look better imo

No its ugly. its not just the newspaper. it could be rendered by the best software available or tattoed on someones ass and look the same. hopefully it will blow over before its finished or somthing.
comone dubai-lover, i know your dying to hate it aswell. just call it ugly once. please.
pretty please!

calm down dxb_raptor ;)

sorry. its the canadians. they drive me crazy!

i just dont like my skyline being pollouted!!!!!

:D :D :D

I dont think it's that bad compared to most of the towers coming up in New Dubai! IMO, the glass facade is reassuring, it might look bad in the renders but never does in reality!

ok. post :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:


i now think this tower may look freakin awesome.
ill have to wait for a decent render b4 i decide.
it reminds me of some of the older buildings on the creek.

untill then ill give it neutral respect

but what a terrible way to promote a building...Put out the uglyist render ever!

i still would say it is ugly.
IMO buildings do not always look better when finished than in the renders, as they often show them in an unreal location, very alone , which usually looks much better...

I saw some other renderings as well, from different perspectives. It doesnt look promising at all in terms of structure. The transparency in the building might be the saving grace. But if you see another tower in the background through that glass- thats not good is it? Frankly its not a good location for a transparent tower.

And to say that the actualy building will look better than a rendering is a fallacy. Atleast in Dubai. The glistening blue waters and the ultra shine glass is nothing close to reality.

I think in this case, the architecs are big names - so they can get away with anything they do. This building sucks as far as I am concerned.

how can this building be transparent, it just looks like this in the renders
there will be offices (and apartments) in this tower. there will be walls inside the building
how do you want to look through the whole building?

Probably they intend to make the office sloors and the retails space floors with fully transparent glass. Their official also quoted that it is a tower with no pillars to block the view. You can see them struggling to actually point out the good features of the building.

cool tower, good one. I like it:)

a smaller render

http://207.44.228.232/photopost/data//500/2One_Central_Park.jpg

^ still with a better render, it doesn't look that great and that liberty tower is a smaller copy.

One Central Park is an 80-storey skyscraper designed by Foster. The project is worth Dh1.8 billion and will be built on an 215,200 square feet plot in the DIFC. “The One Central Park is a signature building by Foster. We wanted to create something unique for the Dubai skyline which will be aesthetically lasting,” Jallaf said. The project will be completed in 3 years and will be ready by the third quarter of 2008.

215.000 sgft is a looot seems like it will get a big base around teh floorplate...
still don't like the design...

I like this tower and Liberty Tower. They are "right" for the location. I dont think I would like to live there though.

Ok Foster and Partners replied to my email today. Here is some useful info

One Central Park
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2005 - 2008
Facts and Figures
Client: Union Properties
Location: Located on a prominent corner site within the Dubai International
Finance Centre.
Site size: 20,000m²
Height: 328m
No. of floors: 80
Facilities: - 520 high-end residential apartments, including 12 penthouses;
25 floors of office accommodation
- mid-level sky lobby with recreational facilities, e.g. swimming pool,
managed gymnasium, bar and restaurants
- low-level retail
Parking: 2,681 car parking spaces: 768 residential spaces
1,868 office spaces
45 visitor spaces
Gross internal area: Office: 66,508m²
Residential: 96,963m²
Net internal area: Office: 51,407m²
Residential: 74,910m²
Typical office floor plate: Low rise: 2,195m²
High rise: 2,080m²
Net retail area: 5,985m²
Apartments: 520 apartments (264 one-bed, 208 two-bed, 36 three-bed, 12
penthouses)
Structure: Four large tapering A-frame concrete ‘fins’, which are buttressed at the
East and West elevation, forming the basis of the building structure.
25 levels of office accommodation and 47 levels of residential
apartments are held within this structure
Cladding: It is designed to minimise adverse climatic effects on the building. It is
orientated so that the East and West cores shelter the floor plates from
the intense heat of the sun in this region. Sun shades are used on the
South façade to minimise the effect of solar gain.
Features: Each office floor plate is comprised of three 27m x 27m column free bays.
These long span structures allow maximum flexibility for space planning.
It is suitable for large international financial corporations and can also be
subdivided for multiple tenancies.
The design features a fully glazed double height sky lobby in between the
offices and apartments, occupying an entire level of the building. This
accommodates spaces for recreational activities such as a swimming
pool, a managed gymnasium, bars and restaurants, emphasising views
towards the city and coast.
The building is strategically designed to accentuate the metropolitan view
of Dubai International Finance Centre on the North side and the Dubai
cityscape on the South.
The landscape concept at podium level aims to provide an integrated
layout comprising formal boulevards and open spaces as public and
pedestrian links to the DIFC Master Plan. Expansive, elegant pools of
water at entrance level, together with planting and shaded areas are
adopted to create a comfortable and calming environment. Integrated
into the landscaping will be areas providing high quality restaurants, bars
and cafes to be used by both offices and residents during and after office
hours.
Lifts: 8 passenger lifts for low rise office
12 passenger lifts for high rise office
4 high speed residential passenger shuttle lifts
4 residential local passenger lifts
2 office goods lifts
1 residential goods lift

HEIGHT IS 328 m !!

you deserve a medal mate! :okay:

and you seem to be the lucky guy. i have been contacting about 60 companies and you know which heights i got

328m, that's huuuuuge :D

That's massive. Still have some doubs about the design.

yes cause its soo huge and then sooo tall...
this must be the most massive tower in dubai for now....

let me just imagine the skyline along szr:

one central park
the hexagon
emirates towers
chelsea
rose rotana
khalid al attar
badriya
21st century
capricorn
the tower
mercure hotel
park place

hmmmmmm :cool:

i think some NY guys should become jealous ;)

I really like this tower.....and what great height!!!!

they replied me, too, but not much more new information,
but new black&white render:

http://img3.imagevenue.com/loc245/a87_DUBAI_DAYbw.jpg

ha
checked my mailbox and got a reply too :D
also with that black render and they have added 3 pdfs with data (krazy posted it here already)

but here are the contractors
client: union properties
structural engineers: halvorson & partners
services engineers: roger preston & partners
cost consultant: currie & brown
project manager: edara
architect: khatib & alami

valuable info for emporis which i'll add now

pfff i guess they check their mails once a month, at the beginning, and then reply with the same email to everyone. i got those pdfs too....

interesting fact by the side:

the tower will have the world's highest apartment

but that is only the case when comparing to current towers...
not to UC or Approved....

yeah, burj dubai would have to be a lot lot smaller than we expect!

well not so UGLY but just a bit UGLY :D it doesn't fit such a high class place like DIFC

how can this building be transparent, it just looks like this in the renders
there will be offices (and apartments) in this tower. there will be walls inside the building
how do you want to look through the whole building?


I really hope it isn't transparent, I would hate to have to accidentally walk through that thing and bang my head severely.

From: http://www.fosterandpartners.com/internetsite/html/

On 23 February, the new Foster and Partners’ design for ‘One Central Park’ was unveiled to the public in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Located on a prominent corner site within the ‘Dubai International Finance Centre,’ the 80-storey 328m mixed-use tower, combining 520 luxury apartments with 25 floors of office space, and shops, restaurant, pool, and health club, will have the world’s highest apartment.

The eye-catching shape of One Central Park was generated by Foster and Partners’ desire to clearly express the structural system and internal organisation of the tower. The upper-level block of apartments – offering the highest residential views in the world – are supported by four attenuated A-frame ‘fins’ at 27m centres, which are buttressed at each end elevation. 25 levels of column-free office accommodation are held within from these fins, separated from the residential levels by a glazed sky-lobby. The tower is orientated east - west to maximise views over the Finance Centre and to the coastline and desert. This orientation also reduces solar gain, with the building core mass absorbing heat to reduce mechanical ventilation loads. A system of sunshades shelters the interiors on the exposed south elevation.

One Central Park sits on a generously landscaped plinth level ? with sculpted pools of water and underground car park ? and is entered through a dramatic quadruple-height foyer. The main lift cores – serving the offices – are located to the east and west extremities of the tower. A small central lift core – serving 40 levels of apartments – rises to a double-height sky-lobby above the office levels and provides accesses to a variety of facilities for residents including a reception, lounge, restaurant, and fitness centre with a swimming pool. A local lift core then disperses residents to their individual apartments. The tower is crowned with 12 luxurious duplex and triplex penthouse apartments with spectacular views.

‘One Central Park’ is scheduled for completion in early-2008 and is the latest in an evolving sequence of tall towers by Foster and Partners.

Norman Foster noted of the project:

"We have designed a landmark tower for Dubai - with a clear differentiation between the apartments and offices. The distinctive form of One Central Park continues our exploration of the skyscraper in the twenty-first century."

Burj Dubai will have apartments hundreds of metres higher than the highest apartments in this tower so I don't htink it will ever have the world’s highest apartment.

good thing bout it having an underground car park. the car parks along SZR just look really odd.

No, no, DIFC is divated in zones, and each of them is named after some famous places and Central Park is one of them.

what are the other ones?
will there actualy be a park afiliated with the 'central-park' zone?

yes but why central CAR park...? whats the joke?
SZR is a car park during peak times......not very funny I know

I would love to live up there. Too bad its so ugly on the outside.:)

any thing eles on the DIFC seems so dead these days

Hope not!!!

What is going on with DIFC, this tower is still going ahead but slowly.

Is the the hexagon dead?

there is lots going on in difc
mainly infrastructure and roads so far
maybe ground works

no chance to have a quick view on the sites

climb a car park then

Ok because all the towers that were announced are doing nothing.

i know
but then we sort of expected there was ment to be nothing till 2006
but i though park towers had early start August 2005 from mid 2006

maybe most of them are ground work , which usually takes up to 1 year...

Is there any chance someone could climb one of the towers on SZR and take a few pics of DIFC?

I don't think this tower's as bad as some of you guys say. That render's pretty crappy and the tower looks 2-dimensional from that angle.

/\

The design is not bad, but it's too massive IMO. Just remember it will be 328m high! 21st Century Tower and Chelsea Tower are dominating a part of the SZR and they are much shorter and are both getting narrower towards the top, while OCP will be massive all the way to the top, so you can already guess that it will totally dominate the skyline.

it will do what the emirates tower do today at SZR.

right some news on this tower, firstly its name is now Index tower and the big news the piling is complete and the excavatiuon and dewatering are underway so technically this is U/C

index tower :bash:

one central park was cool

but good to know work has started!!!

One Central Park

Dubai, UAE 2005-2008

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/internetsite/images/project_media/1309/1309_1.jpg

The design for 'One Central Park' is located on a prominent corner site within the 'Dubai International Finance Centre'. The 80-storey 328m mixed-use tower, combining 520 luxury apartments with 25 floors of office space, and shops, restaurant, pool, and health club, will have the world's highest apartment.

The eye-catching shape of One Central Park has been generated by a desire to clearly express the structural system and internal organisation of the tower. The upper-level block of apartments - offering the highest residential views in the world - are supported by four attenuated A-frame 'fins' at 27m centres, which are buttressed at each end elevation. 25 levels of column-free office accommodation are held within from these fins, separated from the residential levels by a glazed sky-lobby. The tower is orientated east - west to maximise views over the Finance Centre and to the coastline and desert. This orientation also reduces solar gain, with the building core mass absorbing heat to reduce mechanical ventilation loads. A system of sunshades shelters the interiors on the exposed south elevation.

One Central Park sits on a generously landscaped plinth level - with sculpted pools of water and underground car park - and is entered through a dramatic quadruple-height foyer. The main lift cores - serving the offices - are located to the east and west extremities of the tower. A small central lift core - serving 40 levels of apartments - rises to a double-height sky-lobby above the office levels and provides accesses to a variety of facilities for residents including a reception, lounge, restaurant, and fitness centre with a swimming pool. A local lift core then disperses residents to their individual apartments. The tower is crowned with 12 luxurious duplex and triplex penthouse apartments with spectacular views.

Appointment Date: 2005

Construction Date: 2005

Completion Date: 2008

Client: Union Properties

Associate Architects: Khatib & Alami

Consultants:
Halvorson and Partners
Roger Preston & Partners
Currie & Brown
edara / APP
Khatib & Alami (collaborating architect)


http://www.fosterandpartners.com/internetsite/html/Project.asp?JobNo=1309

thats old, Khatib and alami are nolonger the AOR for the project, also other consultsnts are no longer involver either

Ready for change in U/C?

Project: The Index
Floor Count: 86
Type: Commercial + Residential
Construction start: January 2006
Construction end: 2009
Status: Approved

Multiplex wins $389m Dubai tower deal

Multiplex Group Ltd has won a $389 million contract to build an 86-storey office tower in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Construction of the project, known as "the Index" is expected to begin next month and the contract will last three years.

The tower will have 25 levels of office space, 50 levels of parking, retail and other services, and 520 residential apartments and penthouses.

It is located at the Dubai International Finance Centre.

The design of the building will be handled by architects, Woods Bagot, and structural engineers, Gilchrist and Evans.

The project managers will be edara-APP, a joint venture between Dubai-based project managers, edara, and APP, an Australian project management company.

Multiplex secured the contract through its UAE subsidiary, Nasa Multiplex.

We can hope for 350m plus

Shit!

Dennis please add to emporis

I may be mistaken but isn't this the new name for 1 central park?
Also doesn't anyone think 50 floors of parking like a bit much? ;)

50 levels of parking, retail and other services......not just parking

one central park is only 80 floors not 86, but u cud be right. Lets wait for a render n then we'll fnd out. We'll merge the threads in that case.

No! I'm pretty sure this is a brand new TOWE-PROJECT... it just caught us by surprized.....

Can you guys imagine the view of Sheikh Zayed Rd. with the Financial center, with the Burg Al 3arab-downtown, with the business bay...!?!?

The whole region will be the worlds most dramatic & most impressive CITY VIEW... Gaigantic skyline! Wow...

I bet you by the looks of it, within the next 4 months we will be surprised with a lot more of those super talls. :cheers:

yes! more power to the DIFC. construction next month?? damn straight!

Sounds good.

No! I'm pretty sure this is a brand new TOWE-PROJECT... it just caught us by surprized.....

Can you guys imagine the view of Sheikh Zayed Rd. with the Financial center, with the Burg Al 3arab-downtown, with the business bay...!?!?

The whole region will be the worlds most dramatic & most impressive CITY VIEW... Gaigantic skyline! Wow...

I bet you by the looks of it, within the next 4 months we will be surprised with a lot more of those super talls. :cheers:

You forgot Park Square across the street from Trade Center and its "no height limit" :)

This cud very well be One Central Park since both are being developed by Union Properties

do you think maybe DIFC deserves its own sub-thread?

maybe once we have enuff number of towers. As of now, we dont have enuff... we are not even getting construction updates because of no access.

its the same project as I told you all some time ago and its height is 328m. There are loads of mech floors on this too. to get 86F

thanks, merged the two.

have the changed the name?

It must be a new design because they have dumped Foster and Partners and are now using Woods Bagot to design the tower.

finally something is happening
name is ok, but i preferred the old one

the current design will be difficult to improve!

it better be good

^^ I though most people didn't like the current design?

I think it's good enough but definitly not one of Norman's best :cheers:

current design is ok, remember we do not even have a proper render.

i preferred the old name by ages...

Finally. Go DIFC.

Here comes a monster.

Construction to start next month lads :)








Nasa Multiplex to build Dh1b tower

By Saifur Rahman, Staff Reporter


Dubai: Union Properties, a Dubai-based developer, has awarded a Dh1.06 billion contract to Nasa Multiplex, a UAE-Australian joint venture construction company, to design and build Index a 328-metre mixed-use tower with 86 floors.

Construction will start this month and it will be completed in three years.

Nasa Multiplex officials in Dubai declined to comment on the project yesterday, citing a secrecy clause in the contract.

The project, initially named One Central Park, will be located in the heart of the Dubai International Finance Centre complex, with 25 levels of office space, 520 apartments and penthouses over 50 levels with parking, retail, services and landscaped podium on other levels, Multiplex Group said.

"The project will be delivered on a guaranteed maximum price contract, which is the result of a two-stage negotiation process with Union Properties, for whom Multiplex has already successfully completed The Tower and Creekside Apartments projects," it said on Monday.

Foster and Partners of London produced the architectural concept for the project, while Multiplex has engaged architects Woods Bagot and structural engineers Bruechle, Gilchrist and Evans to complete the design.

Union Properties has engaged edara-APP, a joint venture between edara, a Dubai-based project management group, and APP, a well-known Australian project management company, as project manager during both the design and construction phases.

"The eye-catching shape of the tower has been generated by a desire to clearly express the structural system and internal organisation of the tower," Foster and Partners said.

"The upper-level block of apartments offering the highest residential views in the world are supported by four attenuated A-frame 'fins' at 27-metre centres, which are buttressed at each end elevation. Twenty-five levels of column-free office accommodation are held within from these fins, separated from the residential levels by a glazed sky-lobby."

The tower is orientated east-west to maximise views over the DIFC and to the coastline and desert. This orientation also reduces solar gain, with the building core mass absorbing heat to reduce mechanical ventilation loads. A system of sunshades shelters the interiors on the exposed south elevation.

"On a contract value, it's a very significant win for us," a spokesman said.

Nasa Multiplex is one of the major contractors active in the UAE with 15 projects. It has 470 staff.

The contract would boost Sydney-based Multiplex's profitability, which warned recently that rising expenses at its Wembley Stadium project in Britain could wipe $60 million (Dh220.38 million) off its profit.

But it still maintained its profit guidance of about $215 million for the current financial year.

In June, the company was forced to admit that cost blowouts and delays at Wembley would result in a $109 million loss on the project, which is due to be completed in time for the FA Cup in May.

Good news!

this one's gonna be a STUNNER~~!!!!


:D

wow another one to add to construction diagram. what does it look like?

^^ I think it is undergoing a redesign

Exact date of start?

enabeling works (piling , dewatering, shoring and excavation) awared and due to break ground in jan.
Amin contractor awarded (multiplex) and this is going to be a unique construction sequence with the core shooting up followed by the infill slabs

kinda like Eureka? ^

I just noticed, 50 levels of parking, wow, that's a lot.

That can't be right. It means more than half the tower's a carpark :hahaha:

Sentence is just little off, my attempt at making it clearer

The project, initially named One Central Park, will be located in the heart of the Dubai International Finance Centre complex, It will have 25 levels of office space at the base then 50 Floor of res. This will include 520 apartments and penthouses as well. The tower will also feature parking for all res and office workers, retail, services and landscaped podium on other levels, Multiplex Group said.

Ground break in 01.2006.

Can anyone shot pics of this one!?

More good news on the Index, at last!!!!!

Swissboring digs in at cluster Z and DIFC
CONSTRUCTION UAE
16 Dec 2005

Swissboring, part of Italy’s Trevi Group, has been awarded the piling, shoring, excavation and dewatering package for three towers on cluster Z at Jumeirah Lake Towers. The local Asteco Development Management is the project manager, and the local Architecture Engineering Innovations Bureau (AEIB) is the consultant. The client is the local Seven Tides Development. Swissboring has also been selected by the local/Australian Nasa Multiplex to carry out the foundations for the 79-storey Index Tower project, also known as One Central Park, in DIFC. Nasa Multiplex was awarded a guaranteed maximum price contract for the project in November (MEED 18:11:05).

And so it has begun! :D

I assume the 79 floor count will go up when the 6 or so tech floors are included.

this tower has the biggets hole i've ever seen :eek: :drool:

http://i1.tinypic.com/n2fyba.jpg

:D this looks indeed rather big.. OMG: will be massive.

MULTIPLEX are building it? Well this is my citys input into dubai.

:eek: That's really a massive hole. This gonna be awesome.

MULTIPLEX are building it? Well this is my citys input into dubai.

Multiplex has build ALOT in Dubai.

from todays paper:

http://i2.tinypic.com/vhtcft.jpg

R

Finally a better render, I like it :cheers:

UP, major DIFC launches

United Arab Emirates: 7 hours, 59 minutes ago

Union Properties is to launch its two major projects in the Dubai International Financial Centre on April 18 at the Emirates Towers hotel. The 80-storey Index mixed-use tower by Foster & Partners, and opulent Limestone House residence by architects Gensler, will both be sold freehold.

R

fucking gorgeous design now that we can see it from a side view

limestone house is the building which comprises the ritz carlton and the serviced apartments

this is also from the ad, but i had to fix this abit becuase there were 2 whitle lines across it:

http://i2.tinypic.com/vhucrt.jpg

R

and yet another beaute~~


:)

http://i2.tinypic.com/vmskeo.jpg

http://i2.tinypic.com/vmsmev.jpg

great shot
piling is going on as we can see
one of the biggest holes in dubai!!

:shocked: The hole looks about 20meter or more deep. How many basement levels is the building going to have? Must be five or more?

The design is absolutly stunning, can't wait to see this one rise :cheers:.

design is great was happy to see the renders in the papers.

and they also showed a location map of DIFC with this tower, and the marked the whole hole but the towers' basement is smaller.

do u mean this:

http://i3.tinypic.com/vo6hvt.jpg

R

exactly :)

:D

Look at the size of the shadow of the building next to the star-shaped one and compare it to that of The Index

29/04/2006

http://i3.tinypic.com/wrmd82.jpg


A closer up, I think they are preparing for the raft foundation:

http://i3.tinypic.com/wrmf85.jpg

i wonder if this is the whole footprint because there are more piles around it

could be for basement also.

WOW!!! Coming UP!!!

Thats a nice slab.

What is the developer web site for this tower? The name makes it really hard to google the information. :(

What is the developer web site for this tower? The name makes it really hard to google the information. :(

its union properties.

I think its www.up.ae

Try that :)

I hope some developers from Dubai are intersted to invest in Poznan - large city in west Poland, someday,

Is this one above ground???

no, i guess they are still working on basement/raft foundation.

How many supertall towers are in the DIFC?

How many supertall towers are in the DIFC?
Completed or U/C ?

Anyway if you wanna know check this : http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=184220
;)

How many supertall towers are in the DIFC?
1.

^^ for now.

look at the size of the site.... if this is infact the site for the index

http://static.flickr.com/46/165816651_585bf1fc32_b.jpg

Not that big then :lol:

the photo must be quite old though.

what is the villa in background?

yea the picture is a bit old.. but not more than a month...

the villa has to belong to a royal family member... look at the lawn :eek:

^^ The villa behind the Al Murroj is pretty old. Its just been rennovated. As far as I understand, its officially part of Sheikh Mo's spillover servants quarters.

http://www.up.ae/nr/up/index/default.asp

29/04/2006

http://i3.tinypic.com/wrmd82.jpg


The first floor must be complete. Do they sleep????http://smiliestation.de/smileys/Schlafend/22.gif (http://smiliestation.de)http://smiliestation.de/smileys/Schlafend/31.gif (http://smiliestation.de)http://smiliestation.de/smileys/Schlafend/1.gif (http://smiliestation.de)http://smiliestation.de/smileys/Schlafend/18.gif (http://smiliestation.de)http://smiliestation.de/smileys/Schlafend/15.gif (http://smiliestation.de)

somebody could check it..
but remember it has a massive basement and underground parking, it might take longer, but i am sure raft foundation is underway..

Picture by Imre 28.07.2006

http://i7.tinypic.com/219z9kk.jpg

Picture by Imre 28.07.2006

http://i7.tinypic.com/219z9kk.jpg
how much sqft does the first floor have???

it is sooooo massive, going to take ages, .. if they can do 1F/week on this one... respect :eek:

we will see.. will take at least two more months until they reach the regular floors..

massive site

30/07/2006

http://i7.tinypic.com/21e71o4.jpg

The board with the render was upo as well, but it faces the back road.

18.08.2006 By Imre


http://i8.tinypic.com/24x4f9f.jpg

http://i8.tinypic.com/24x4fa0.jpg

http://i7.tinypic.com/24x4fn8.jpg

http://i8.tinypic.com/24x4fnl.jpg

http://i7.tinypic.com/24xdfk2.jpg

http://i8.tinypic.com/24xdfkh.jpg

http://i7.tinypic.com/24xdfma.jpg

This building looks almost 100 Meters wide. That has to be the widest Skyscraper anywhere. :)

i would estimate it to be around 65m wide at the base.

i would estimate it to be around 65m wide at the base.

No way!!! If the renders are a bit accurate, you can take around 2.8 times the base length onto the height, so you get 328/2.8=117m. Well, say that this thing is easily more than 100m wide at the base. It's going to be one of the most massive towers in Dubai (and the world!!). Compare to the massive 94 meters wide Burj Dubai (first floors, not podium, that is 160m), or John Hancock Center's 80 meters, or Sears Tower's 69 meters, or WTC's 63 meters.

I also have calculated an wide over 100m. in approximately 101m.

i've maked this cheap model in Sketch Up to show the wide: ( 328m tall and 100m broadly)

http://i3.tinypic.com/27zi7o5.png

15.09.2006 By Imre (not sure, but I think so)

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/2387/img3900jl3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Again: 15.09.2006 by Imre

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/7678/img3892jo1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/1329/img3896cf7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/2263/img3897xv3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

yeah this is it..

it is so freaking massive..

i can see some rigs on the site to the right..

23.09.2006 By Imre

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/7493/img4155cg0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

06.10.2006 By Imre

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/106/img4706lz8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/853/img4707rm9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

What a tower.. it will be just incredible to watch.. a concrete wall.. :eek2:

http://static.flickr.com/110/278003746_68a14bce1d_b.jpg

Saw it today HUUUUUGE :eek:

this will block the ET view towards BD wide as it is...

Almost but not quite (of course that depends on the accuracy of this ;))

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2474/7qw8.jpg

Awesome tower nd will be great to see this rise. Pretty wide as well. Jesus...

taken from the hotel tower? rememeber that is the place Vu's Bar is which should be an amazing place to take 500+ updates from Burj dubai, and also shots of the finished thing.

Nope, from the office tower, the index blocks it from the hotel tower

good progress, to stand in front of that tower must be gigantic

27.10.2006 By Imre

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/2476/dsc0481vq8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/506/dsc0482un7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/677/dsc0493te3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I hope Multiplex show they are better at constructing this than they are of the Wembley stadium.

^^ This is easier and more conventional to build then the stadium. ;)

haven't seen such a massive site for a long time

but, well, the hole let us assume its dimensions ;)

06/11/2006

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/9462/dsc0919cr5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

awesome shot!

massive tower...

Wow, massive indeed. Cool update.

12/11/2006

http://i15.tinypic.com/4hw11ko.jpg

On the bottom right side:

http://i15.tinypic.com/2zguotv.jpg

massive floor height

http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/7282/floorheightdz7.jpg

lol, just imagine.... 86F multiplied by 7.3 meters per floor would make an impressive 628 meters! Unfortunately, it's 300m shorter than that, so we should expect 3.8m per floor... That rendering is misleading :lol:

it probably is a render of a penthouse
that's it
not all floors are going to look like this

28/11/2006 by dubai 26

http://xs409.xs.to/xs409/06484/difc5.jpg

thanks for the update....it's really not the fastest growing tower in Dubai :)

Goodness, what a base :uh:

Nasa are now involved in construction :crazy: ?

^^ Yes, they sell Bridgestone tires and office furnitures too.

thanks for the update....it's really not the fastest growing tower in Dubai :)

thats cos its one of the biggest towers ever done. This is a massive project

28/11/2006 by dubai 26

http://xs409.xs.to/xs409/06484/difc5.jpg

Great update, thanks Krazy

03/12/2006

http://i14.tinypic.com/4i6kr38.jpg

WTF is this?

large lobby? floorplates rather slow?

Well, look at the size of this thing (and the little ants running around inside :D).

The Index

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2599/img6148ji4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/4448/img6149jn5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/263/img6150vy5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

when will the tower reach its height?

2008 i think

when will the tower reach its height?

look at the 1st page,
Construction Start: 2005
Construction End: 2008

^^ how? they start construcition in 2006 not 2005