Name: Al Durrah Tower (2)
Floors: 78
Height: 330m
Use: Residential
Cost: $140m


new design
http://www.hillintl.com/images/marketProject5446.jpg


smussuw's pic from cityscape nov 2004
former design
http://www.ayuplanet.com/smussuw/Image(091).jpg

you want proof?

here's the press release from hill international, which also build the 445m dubai tower in doha, qatar




07/20/2005

Hill International Selected as Project Manager of New 76-Story Al Durrah Tower in Dubai

Dubai, UAE -- Hill International, Inc., the worldwide construction consulting firm, has announced that a subsidiary company, Hill International (Middle East) Ltd., has received a contract from H.E. Sheikh Mohamed Bin Butti Al Hamid to provide project management services during the design and construction phases of the Al Durrah Tower in Dubai.

The new 76-story, 330-meter tower will be located adjacent to the Fairmont Hotel on Sheikh Zayed Road. The project comprises a tower with a built-up area of 134,398 square meters that will accommodate 102 three-bedroom, 325 two-bedroom and 283 one-bedroom apartments. The ground and mezzanine floors give way for retail and commercial space, whilst recreational facilities including a swimming pool and gymnasium are housed at roof levels. One basement is allocated for services. An adjacent car parking structure with a built-up area of around 32,630 square meters will accommodate 884 vehicles. The project is expected to cost approximately US$140 million.

"The Al Durrah Tower will be a major addition to the skyline of Dubai," said Raouf S. Ghali, President of Hill's International Project Management Group. "Hill is proud to have been selected as its project manager and we will ensure that this project is built according to the world-class standards of construction in the region," Ghali added.

Hill International, with nearly 700 employees in 21 offices worldwide, provides program management, project management, construction management and construction claims services. Engineering News-Record magazine recently ranked Hill as the 18th largest construction management firm in the United States. For more information on Hill, please visit our website at www.hillintl.com.

updated on emporis FO SHO :D

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!! Architect is SOM

wow great stuff i love it.
looks good. man that is great near the fairmont. it will looks so awesome...
i am excited.

oh wow great

damn, i just notice the design has changed!!!!

http://www.hillintl.com/images/marketProject5446.jpg

Best news in ages it is truly a masterpiece

odd looking shape
i can see the sky garden
down a far way from farimont
in fact will be very close to capital
given slender nature of dubai towers still room for more

Jesus Christ, ANOTHER ONE!!! :eek:

might be this tower is 360m :rofl:

in their portfolio they say it's 360, while in the press release it's 330m
maybe the roof feature???

http://www.hillintl.com/?fa=market&marketSidebarId=49&show=fp

hope so need some diff
dubai already has 330 meter tower

This truly made my day!

hmm yes the pace has slowed a little for ones this tall

Is it on the same side as the fairmont, or on the opposite side of the road next to the Trade Center?

the render seems to be inaccurate
it says adjacent which means (for me) next to
but it doesn't say on the next plot right next to fairmont

in the render it appears to be 2 plots to the right of fairmont

but, the fairmont has some kind of a huge cooling plant next to it, which is as large as 1 plot

at least there still is plenty of space between fairmont and the capital towers, as well as another plot between fairmont and api world tower, where the 415m badriya tower was supposed to be, but.....

laaalalalaaaaa..
my day will be great today. i am happy :D
that design is a stunner.
little bit like ocean heights, and again soo slender. awesome.
do you think it is enough for world section?

Yes it is! Its time for a fight back! slender?? looks to be as wide as the fairmont

ME LIKEY :tongue2:

it makes me go crazy
i will contact hill international for the height
wish me luck :)

wow
they replied within 30 minutes! :eek:

according to a vice president the tower will be 330m tall and the architect is, who else could it be,..... WS ATKINS :D


giles - could you delete your photos of the old render on emporis?

A great one :eek: :D

Great height, great design. What more could you ask for.:D
It's good to see some of the old proposals coming through. Now all we have to do is hope for united tower to become a reality too :D

Oh yeah BTW, tower's 76 floors not 78.

Aswell, Do you think this is good enough to post on the world forums?
I say yes :D
Here's the thread:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=4880090#post4880090

Great height, great design. What more could you ask for.:D
It's good to see some of the old proposals coming through. Now all we have to do is hope for united tower to become a reality too :D

Oh yeah BTW, tower's 76 floors not 78.
I think badriya should be built first :bow:

wow, what a great tower! http://www.tp.spt.fi/~jukarkil/uae/jiihaa.gif http://www.tp.spt.fi/~jukarkil/uae/jiihaa.gif

and only for 140$ million! (yeah right... :D )

I hope that the construction will start soon

might take several months.
i am still waiting for the 100F+ towers proposed.....

where did they propose such towers? park square, Im waiting for the 140 storey one

Great height, great design. What more could you ask for.:D
It's good to see some of the old proposals coming through. Now all we have to do is hope for united tower to become a reality too :D

Oh yeah BTW, tower's 76 floors not 78.

actually it's 76 res floors + m + g

GREAT! It looks great in that shitty render, imagine in reality!

I am not sure about the location though.... very confusing.

where did they propose such towers? park square, Im waiting for the 140 storey one

in the marina and "SZR" area.
by dimensions and fortune group.

in the marina and "SZR" area.
by dimensions and fortune group.

O yeah, werent we suposed to hear about fortune 101? hope it will still be proposed

wow
they replied within 30 minutes! :eek:

according to a vice president the tower will be 330m tall and the architect is, who else could it be,..... WS ATKINS :D


giles - could you delete your photos of the old render on emporis?
Excellent news, thats 2 70+ story towers in the past 2 weeks. Quite slow for Dubai standards.
Anyways Ill sort out the old immage I took of the SOM stand at citiscape, which by the way is back in september

another supertall for Dubai, now without the typical spire,,, this is great news... from the renders, it's sure to be located between Capital Towers n Fairmont, lot's of space there.. thanks 4 these updates... :cheers:

all res
Dang another one to push over australia's tallest res towers down the list

:eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2:

Kewl! I like it! Now they just need to hurry up and finish it! I guess I am getting a little impatient, but I'd like to see the stretch of SZR from the DWTC till the Burj Dubai Junction completely built up, I mean, they should force land owners to hurry up and develop their plots so SZR looks complete. :D

i want a second row
those gaps annoy me

i want a second row
those gaps annoy me

suppose I have to agree, the gaps are VERY annoying along SZR, especially the plots that resemble the barren wastelands of the Sahara......

The DIFC will take care of s second row on the South side of SZR, but unfortunately we have to be content with car parks, schools and some of Dubai's worst looking villas for a second row on the North side of SZR. :|

north side will never get a 2nd row is suppose. unfortunately...
but we should be satisfied with the one site, because it is actually enough for 4 rows ;)

the site
the fence doesn't have anything to do with it though
i think it's been there for ages

http://tinypic.com/9kt1ec.jpg

this will take so much time, we'll see this one raising from the ground maybe early 2007 :(

lol. great site. ;) so much going on. i can spot a spider. but right it will take long..

Please show me the spider....



Great tower, but itll be a while before they build it if they want to make a profit.

more slow construction :(

Why cant they hurry up and finish these thngs so we can talk about other stuff? LOL

where is the mysterious spider?

... where is the mysterious spider?

In Flo's imagination. :D

In Flo's imagination. :D

heh heh..... I am sure Flo will have something to say about that. :D

http://www.imagerage.com/pics/NK052140.jpg

have you ever thought about glasses? :)

this is soo cheap quality paint shit even i myself don't believe it lol :D

... have you ever thought about glasses? :)

Are you talking to Dennis and Me? :rofl:

have you ever thought about BETTER glasses :)

LOL
carzy stuff you all get up to

have you ever thought about BETTER glasses :)


have you thought about better software? :tongue2:

^ Or of a BETTER night slip. :D

^ Or of a BETTER night slip. :D

whats with you and this mysterious night slip anyway? :|

i take both into consideration.

It looks like this tower is going to replace 21st Century tower for advertisements.

whats with you and this mysterious night slip anyway? :|

It's something between me and Florian

yeah a deep relationship lol.

It looks like this tower is going to replace 21st Century tower for advertisements.

lol how do you know?

^ Becouse it has a big smooth all-glass facade?

glass is not as flat area

yeah a deep relationship lol.



lol how do you know?



fine....... and here I thought we were all part of one, big happy family. >( :tongue2:

^ Yes we are! :grouphug:

indeed. :pet:

^ Yes we are! :grouphug:

cool! :D

thanks for making me feel special. LOL

Now who knows where I put my pen????? hmmmmmmmmmmmm

indeed. :pet:



awwwwwwwww................ thanks! :D

u guys are cool! :tongue2: heh heh

hillintl website says 360m

hillintl website says 360m

contacted them about this mistake
tower is 330m, however they couldn't arrange to take the misleading info from the website :doh:

breaking news on this tower. The GCAA-general cival aviation authority in Abu Dhabi has redefined the cone used for determining the heights of buildings around airports, and the news os this and others have been cut back to 200m. Also at jepordy is the KM tower at 150F and some other lower sheihk zyed towers around trade centre.
Big News this as it effects loads of projects all over the city

FUCK!

shit shit shit

Isn't this just around the corner from Emirates towers though? Then they must a good bit over the limit.

ya ET are 350m

maybe they cut it. ;)
come on that sucks.. this might affect a lot of towers (al attar as well, all future PS towers, maybe even DIFC and Business Bay) and what sucks most is KM Prop supertall...
maybe it won't go through.
the airport is miles away, and they would allow BD significantly higher only one more mile away... pointless...

Yes, The Emirates Towers @355 meters, are closer to the airport then any other tower in SZR, including Al Durrah tower

destroy and rebuild with 200m...

completely senseless and way too late!!!!

who the hell makes such decisions?

anyway, the et are 355 and 309
i think it only affects towers from et onwards direction park square

this probably is the dumbest desision i've ever seen

the hyatt regency is in a far more dangerous situation

airplanes come about 200m to 300m close to the building and you don't even really hear them

so, how can they change plans for buildings which are several km away????

:wtf:

my guess is, buildings like rose rotana or burj dubai won't be affected at all, just park square

al durrah tower is opposite et and is likely to be shortened

we will see

If KM properties's supertall gets cancelled won't they just build it in that other project they're doing like they said they would?

Do u actually believe in that? I dont!!!!
since when Abu Dhabi have any right in what Dubai is doing?

As for hyatt regency I think that a plane crushed part of it in 1980s or something like that. Thats why a concord sp? is banned in Dubai.

I don't want to believe in this news :(

are guys over Abu Dhabi jealous or what?

cant do this now can they

honestly i don't believe that as well in the moment, until it really goes through and is in the press etc.
and it is really pointless...

I don't want to believe in this news :(

are guys over Abu Dhabi jealous or what?

Lets forget the jealousy because they are always jealous.

Abu Dhabi aviation authority doesnt have any authority on Dubai. This would be the responsiblity of either Dubai aviation authority or the ministry of transportation. We didnt hear anything of both.

:)

So if this goes ahead what are they going to to? Will the Burj Dubai top off at 300m since it's a mile away? Will they chop off the top of the emirates towers?

both , neeever.

It would be better to close the airport.

Guys relax, this news has nothing to do with Dubai at all...

why wud abu dhabi be jealous of dubai? grow up guys

hehe krazy. come one you are jealous ;) you have to see the facts :D
just kidding.
Sa boy can you find out more abt this?

jealousy is a good thing sometimes

Do u actually believe in that? I dont!!!!
since when Abu Dhabi have any right in what Dubai is doing?

As for hyatt regency I think that a plane crushed part of it in 1980s or something like that. Thats why a concord sp? is banned in Dubai.
its since Abu Dhabi and the GCAA are the offical UAE capital and statutory authority with regard to the Civil aviation matters in the country.
As far as I have heard the GCAA and DCAA dont like eachother and the GCAA thinks the DCAA are a buch of cowboys, in fact the word on the international avaiation streets is Dubai has an issue with its airport and is comming close to being catagrozed as a dangerous approach airport which means insurance for carrirs in and out of Dubai will rise. This is die to the DCAA changing the shape of the cone around the airport to allow for higher development in direct contravention of international practices . The GCAA is concerned and will give the final say on such matters no matter what the DCAA say or think.
Thats why so many "approved" and I know of 2 "U/C" that are affected by this height restructuring. Its going to become a big issue soon, so watch this space

need the 2nd airport now, take the pressue off Dubai airport.
But really it is intresting to see these hight restriction even been talked about. Seems to be the second bit of a reality that we rarely see in Dubai. ( Only other one is the failure of the metro )

So which U/C towers would they be then, rotana hotel and burj dubai? It still doesn't make sense to reduce al durrah to 200m though because emirates towers across the road is way over the limit at 350m. Wouldn't the insurance stay just as high even if al durrah was 330m then?

I don't see the point of doing this unless you rebuild emirates towers to 200m aswell. :dunno:

this falls into the category of how to embarass oneself

affected are:
park place
al durrah tower
acico towers
all park square towers

i stick to my statement, this is sensless bullshit as it doesn't affect the airport at all!!!
the only thing which could become critical is park sqaure, but not park place with 34m above the height level, as well as the acico towers, which are almost opposite to emirates towers

park square is seriously in danger when a decision is being made!
i hope it comes soon, because i don't want to have buildings changed during construction


and i'm sure dubai will fight against this stupid decision!!!

I actually think park square is too small for the amount of towers they're planning some of which will be insanely high too. A height restriction makes sense in park square otherwise you'd feel trapped in what would feel like the concrete jungle of all concrete jungles.

The thing that's weird is that even if al durrah was built at 20m how would the insurance go down when the tower across the way's 350m?


and i'm sure dubai will fight against this stupid decision!!!

Just had a thought. If the limit at al durrah's 200m then the limit around burj dubai should be at the most 300m.
Imagine the outrage if emaar were told to stop construction of Burj Dubai at 302m :eek:

I cant see it happening
I dont plan to give this any more attention until it becomes offical

I cant see it happening.

Abu Dhabi never had any authority on Dubai. Beside Dubai Aviation is way more developed and have modern system comparing to their shitty ice age system.

Beside the big guy wont allow stupid things like those.

LOL i like your opinion smussuw.
we will see. but trances was right, another bit of reality!

^ That was a reply of saying that Dubai Aviation authority are cowboys ;)

As I said for the 4th time now. In a managerial level Abu Dhabi doesnt have any single tiny authority in Dubai. Only ministries have authorities although Dubai departments always ignore them :D.

let them do it for abu dhabi, but it's some kind of an insolence to come here and say:
cut your towers to 200m, even if they are km away from the airport and even if there will never be an aircraft crashing into them at the foggiest day

i don't think dubai will accept it and let these fools destroy the whole city development!


as i've said there are airports which are really dangerous! and again, if they want to stop buildings so far away, they MUST blow up the hyatt regency first!!!

even if there was no airport in the path blowing up the hyatt is an attractive idea

What?! This is absolutely disturbing news, ... ghosh, wht could be worse!

Whts your source on this SAboy? The flightpath of dxb is dangerous and we all know it. Bt SZR?! this is insane. Even parksqaure is miles from the flight path. A few eastbound departures do take a westerly turn when they are forced to takeoff towards the sea...but then they are already above 3000 feet when they take the left turn. the BD is the only one that can cause any concern to GSCA or whtever... they rather limit the left turn! and make it a mandatory right turn over the dubai-sharjah border patch. :bash:

wait until it is officially.
but Sa boy is trustworthy... though i doubt they can do that.

I wonder if Dubai would prefer to pay extra insurance for the airport than have all those towers reduced.

i have the info second hand from a senior person at GCAA, its an issue that is brewing and will explode soon. The big problem is normally ina cone you get stagered height restrictions ie 100m, 150m, 200m, 250m etc going up in 50m incraments as you move away from the flight paths. However the new rulling has the following 90m, 200m, 300m so technically depending on the cone angle you could be restricted to 200m whicle your neighbour across the street could have a 300m limit. This is common practice all over the world and is nothing new.
We have heard that existing completed or U/C towers WONT be effected but planed towers wont be allowed to break the cone limits.
The effected buildings are all on the Diera side of the creek and up to the trade centre ie park square and Al DarrahII. Burj is OK and so is all of DIFC.
This is causing a problem to the Dubi invetsment authority who are planning a taller twin for the creek side tower.
Its what I have heard as we deal with these things daily. remebr I was the one who broke the news on the 7 pearls of Dubai and its 80story towers long before it was known about.

no need to remember us.
i believe you, you heard that etc.
i just don't believe it goes through the same way. they just cannot do that.
it even affects DICC tower 2.
and come on SZR is sooo far from the airport. thats pointless.

You forgot Al Burj that it will definitelly be on the flightpath to JXB

right!! another one. but this is the future...
this also affects the Jebel Ali Airport tower city.
but they weren't planned that high anyway..

still hope they are over 200 meters

You forgot Al Burj that it will definitelly be on the flightpath to JXB
I had a look at the map and if the burj dubai doesn't get affected then al burj won't either. It's quite far away.

but Al burj is directly in the approach line while BD isn't.

Oh right, that's a bollocks then.

I've always given Al Burj a 2/10 chance of getting built at it's current height. My opinion is that it'll be reduced but not cancelled. Nakheel will probably build it at 400 or 500m

There's a big chance planes might fly over the Palm jebel Ali right?

yepp indeed. so if there are new restrictions there won't be a tall tower on Palm JA and as well on the waterfront.

place it back on the palm :)

place it back on the palm :)
But that looked really shitty. I remember dubai boy saying that palm jumeirah looked stabbed.

LOL true still better than whats going up there
Any way moved the topic to here
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=5307045#post5307045

Back to the Tower...like dazz I am staggered by the cost. These days $140m doesn't build you that much in Dubai - at the kind of size and hights being discussed, without some serious compromise on quality. And that is the case even if the cost of the land has been excluded from this figure.

It'll probably be built as a 200m tower so cost is more reasonable then

wait and see what happens with the new regulation anyway.

drove past this site as well and it appears to have been sealed off and work is taking place on site... its the plot just next to Ya'qoob Tower.... Dunno if it is AL Durrah or not, but its worth looking into. Even Face81 agreed with me.

Any info anyone? :dunno:

so we now have 3 potential projects on the same plot

the triple al rafi tower complex, this jacob tower smussuw talked about earlier this week and the al durrah tower

there is space for 2 projects between capital towers and fairmont

i hope that the al durrah tower has just been renamed and will be built next to the al rafi complex!!!

I hope both the al durrah and al rafi complex are built. They're not only tall but great looking also!

agree those are great.
i wonder if one of the 3 projects could be on the other side of the fairmont... ?
i have to update SZR tower map, this is sooo old :ancient:
i guess i'll make a new one.
but i wanted to do the construction rundown as well...
we will see.

btw thinking of it, you could include the location maps, the major projects pdf, and the plot maps in your rundown malec.
would be reasonable i'd say.

there is space for 2 projects between capital towers and fairmont



I think they could squeeze in 3 towers, do u not agree?

not the huge al rafi project and two more.

I dunno if this is already known, but even if it isnt, its a good memory refresher for us....

Atkins taken on board for Al-Durrah
CONSTRUCTION UAE
11 Mar 2005

The UK’s Atkins has taken over as design consultant for a proposed new high-rise in Dubai. Called Al-Durrah Tower, the 360-metre-high building will be located adjacent to the Fairmont Hotel on Shaikh Zayed highway. It will entail the construction of an 80-storey mixed-use tower with a total built-up area of 130,000 square metres, a car park and related facilities. The complex will offer 700 one-three-bedroom apartments and three floors of office space. The project is estimated to cost AED 500 million ($136 million) and will take 36 months to complete. The proposed tower will be built in 10 packages, with a tender due to be issued by September for the enabling, piling, shoring and excavation works. A tender for the main construction works, which will include superstructure and cladding, is due to be issued in early 2006. The US’ Hill International is the project manager; the client is an Abu Dhabi-based investor.

missed those dates

missed those dates

what dates?

^ The dates in September for issuing the tender for the piling package. (Read the press release)

^ The dates in September for issuing the tender for the piling package. (Read the press release)

oh ok.... was wondering what he meant. Thanks.

Giles said this one is UC.

if it is the current design, what about the height restrictions?

I doubt this is being build at the original height. Al Rafi Complex 2 plots way, was restricted to a maximum height of just 197 meters.

Do we know the plot?? What's going on there?? :hm:

No picture today from Imre.

Maybe Altin or Dubai-Lover can do it!!! :okay:

i doubt this project is still alive
we know the location, and there is something happening next to tehe fairmont, but still, i think this one has been abandoned and replace by something else

no signboards there though

^^ Check what SA BOY had to say about this, after a chat with the architect

Not only that site is indeed of Al Durrah, but the developer has even got a special permission from the Municipality and DAA to build at the original height.

I didnt find a plot..

^^ 2 plots on the right side of Fairmont Hotel. The one with white and blue boarding.

^^ Check what SA BOY had to say about this, after a chat with the architect

Not only that site is indeed of Al Durrah, but the developer has even got a special permission from the Municipality and DAA to build at the original height.


Good to know, the original height will be built!!! :okay: :okay: :cheers:

AltinD !

I have 2 unnamed plot near Fairmont:

http://i3.tinypic.com/23lf56u.jpg

http://i5.tinypic.com/23lf72s.jpg

http://i5.tinypic.com/23lf8cw.jpg

http://i5.tinypic.com/23lfa75.jpg

^^ The last two, that's it.

13/08/2006

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


Excavation for the parking (foreground):

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

changed the status to under c

i passed by this one and i saw a board but there was no info on it yet...

R

^^ A board? Where, facing SZR?

Which are the neighbouring buildings UC. The one being built closest in the last photo and the one in the back after the al durrah parking site. Or is it all parts of al durrah?

^^ It goes like this:

1. Monarch Hotel: The building under construction with the blue glass facade, almost completed
2. Al Raffi Complex: The site attached to The Monarch. The hole is dug and piling has started.
3. Empty plot; sand
4. Al Durrah Tower: The hole is dug and piling has started.
5. Empty plot; sand
6. DEWA Substation: Power Substation serving the aerea.
7. Fairmont Hotel.

Do we know for sure whether Al Durrah will be affected by the height restrictions like Al Raffi was? It's two plots over, which could make a difference.

SA Boy said the Architect of the tower has told him that they fought and were able to take a special permission to build it at the original proposed height. :cheers:

That's good to hear.

I can't really figure out what the tower actually looks like from the render.

http://www.hillintl.com/images/marketProject5446.jpg


It looks like it might be a twisting one but I don't know, I made 4 models of what it might be. The 1st one is just done by making a rectangular base and then the same for the top but twisted 90 degrees (the tower itsself doesn't twist though), the 2nd one's just a normal twisting tower (45 degrees), the 3rd is a combination of the first 2 and the 4th is different.

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/2123/untitledfu1.jpg

^^ A board? Where, facing SZR?

yes..look carfully

R

malec, its a V shape at the botom and the it goes to a reverse V at the top ie at the bottom the "small face" or elevation faces SZR and at the top it faces the beach.
your 4th tower is correct but must be turned upside down so the top SZR "small face" is at the bottom.
I have seen the model of this and its a stunning building

Render looks great. Any updates avaible?

Yes, pls!!! AltinD?? Krazy?? ANYONE !!!
Thanks.

^^ AltinD is more then 10,000 miles away.

guys i think this is more or less how the design is...(sorry for the primitive render lol)

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/643/durratq4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Its ok. We like primitive.

03/09/2006

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9421/img3627uk7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6397/img3628kg6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8933/img3629vr1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

great shots imre :okay:

some serious action over the last couple of weeks
still no info at the site though

Hope piling is fast as H.H.H. Tower

there goes another supertall stunner:

Bids in for Al-Durrah

Bids have been submitted by at least three groups for the main construction package on the Al-Durrah tower project on Dubai’s Shaikh Zayed road. The bidders include Arabtec Construction and Dubai Contracting Company (DCC), both local, and China’s Beijing Construction Engineering Group. The proposed tower, which will have 50 storeys, was originally conceived as a 75-storey mixed-use tower, but was reduced in size to comply with the requirements of Dubai’s Department of Civil Aviation. The US’ Hill International is the project manager.

R

Shit, if this happened to al yacoub it might have been better.

DAMN IT DAMN THOSE IDIOTS from DCA.

Giles tell us they are wrong.. :( please!

what about the design will they use the same one..?

My worst fears confirmed. :(

Shit Shit Shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

update on the site... shot taken yesterday...

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/griftre/100906023-1.jpg

:cheers:

Krazy, have you reduce the floors at emporis and delete the height??

let's wait and see
if height is reduced, design will have changed as well

this probably is why it has taken so long

15/09/2006

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/5070/img3912cp1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/4889/img3913sr5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/8731/img3914bb3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/6084/img3915yk6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

told you guys over 18 months ago about this. There are not too many towers effected and this is the last of the SZR towers to be effected. biggest lossers are the park square guys cos they can only go to 200m

^^ will PS still go ahead..
btw what happened, u mentioned the architects/developers got special permission..?

23/09/2006

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http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/773/img4171up5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

so ill remove this one from monthly diagrams.
cheers

I wouldent until the render and project sign board is up as we havent seen anything to suggest it

forgot to out this up....some info and a pic of the new version of this tower:

http://i9.tinypic.com/2ylwck7.jpg

http://i10.tinypic.com/29aqhd0.jpg

R

So it's defenetly. :doh:

But the main thing is, it gets built!! :scouserd:

50 floors is not to bad. Look at the Damas Twins or Chelsea.

Can anyone change it at emporis. THX

is al durrah tower II the tower with over 300m?

^^ It was, until the aerea where it is being build fell under the new approach routes to Airport, so a height restriction of 200 meters was imposed.

Look at that, it looks so dissproportional.

that might be the rendering as well, but i suppose the floorplate was increased, so that it is compensating the missing 20F and the total area does not decrease too much.

but the design seems to be rather similar.
will have to wait for a proper rendering.

This is why I hate height reductions, happens with every single project over here. Forcing a few stories to be knocked off doesn't just mean a shorter tower, usually a developer will try and squeeze the same floor space into this shorter tower so that means a much crappier, chunkier, less graceful building aswell as shorter. :bash:

13/10/2006

Al Durrah II

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2034/dsc0192na4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/5091/dsc0193la2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

27.10.2006 By Imre

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http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2861/dsc0506xg4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2/dsc0507rv6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I am not seeing recently any machineries on site so maybe the piling is completed.

DCC logos are appearing now on the site boarding; this means they are being mobilised on site.

02.02.2007

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http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4611/photo098ko8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/559/photo112xu1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

^^ according to www.atkins-me.com the Al Durrah Tower will have 75F

Al Durrah Tower
Dubai, UAE
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/2585/aldurrahtowerpi2.jpg

This is a 75-storey residential tower for which Atkins was commissioned to provide architectural, structural and mechanical and electrical services. The tower comprises a fully equipped gym, health club and spa, parking facilities for 909 cars, retail outlets on the mezzanine floor and outdoor recreational facilities.

^^That's old news, they overlooked that figure when they updated the website.

16/03/2007

Al Durrah Tower

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/2858/photo24kc9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5281/photo23xg0.th.jpg (http://img142.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo23xg0.jpg)http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/2531/photo25fi3.th.jpg (http://img183.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo25fi3.jpg)http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/8299/photo26dx8.th.jpg (http://img183.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo26dx8.jpg)http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/144/photo27ho9.th.jpg (http://img183.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo27ho9.jpg)

Finally we can see good progress!!! :eek:

I think this picture deserves to be displayed in full:

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/8299/photo26dx8.jpg

have they reduced the number of floors from 78 to 50? and why?

For a long time. Look at the sites before.

airport height restrictions, that happened months ago.

nice to see it almost ready for basement

I think this picture deserves to be displayed in full:

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/8299/photo26dx8.jpg


Jesus!! So much armature, looks like Saddam's bunker! :lol:

^^ Yeah, but unlike his bunkers, the danger here comes from below (water). ;)

^^ Yeah, but unlike his bunkers, the danger here comes from below (water). ;)

Hahaha! :rofl:
There is no danger if they use Inox (anti-rust) armature, or simply hydroisolation.

^^ Rust is not the problem (it will be casted in concrete anyway), rather that the raft foundation must be thick and heavy to surpress the pressure from below, that high water table in the aerea will apply.

There is to much underground water in Dubai, it's a mix of sandy and clay terrain overall and that is the reason why in SZR the parings are not underground but on a separate building.

^^ Rust is not the problem (it will be casted in concrete anyway), rather that the raft foundation must be thick and heavy to surpress the pressure from below, that high water table in the aerea will apply.

There is to much underground water in Dubai, it's a mix of sandy and clay terrain overall and that is the reason why in SZR the parings are not underground but on a separate building.

Thanks for information, I'm not so informed about desert-construction. :)

P.S. FYI, my grandfather was chief of construction site in Mosul; on Saddam's 5-level underground military base. He said danger comes from flanks, not from above! ;)

They started pouring concrete for the raft foundation. :banana:

Record concrete pour takes place on Al Durrah

by ArabianBusiness.com staff writer on Saturday, 07 April 2007

Over two days, nearly 10,500m3 of concrete was poured into the foundation raft of the project. Ready Mix Beton is supplying Dubai Contracting Company.Dubai Contracting Company (DCC) and Ready Mix Beton (RMB) have set a new construction record. The concrete foundation raft for their new project - Al Durrah Tower in the World Trade Centre area of Dubai - has superseded the previous record also held by RMB in the UAE for a continuously poured concrete raft.

Close to 10,500m3 of concrete was poured between March 22-23.

"Pouring this volume of special self-compacting concrete needs a high-efficiency, precision-based operation as well as excellent coordination ... between RMB and DCC," said an RMB representative.

The Emirates' largest concrete raft will support Al Durrah Tower, a 50-storey residential building comprising 474 apartments, a spa, swimming pool and squash courts. Atkins is the consultant on the project, which is due to be completed in November 2008.

Dubai Contracting Company was established in 1961; Ready Mixed Beton was founded in 1975 and deals in the production and supply of ready-mix concrete.

R

The rebars are already visible from the street, above the site hoardings.

04/May/2007

AL DURRAH TOWER

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/3294/imresolt057gx8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3936/imresolt058od7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

The ground floor is completed and so is the 1st floor slab.

The 2nd floor slab was completed also. These guys are not joking, they are flying. :cheers:

wow, not bad!

are you kidding it took 8 days to lay down 1 floor slab

^^ Yeah, but it is the 2nd floor not the 22nd.

you saw it on Marina Pinnacle how long they worked on the first few floors.

Working on the third floor now. I like the steady construction speed in here; It is not fast but these are the first floors and we can't pretend much at this stage. However has to be mentioned that with changing floor plates and structural shapes, I'm not really expecting a fast speed throughout the construction process.

I doub't we will see 1 Floor/week cycle.

Havent they changed the name of this to Sama Tower...I thot I saw that...can anyone else confirm this.

R

yes, there is a new board , Sama Tower ,.

I can also confirm that this tower is called SAMA TOWER.

Please change :cheers:

22/June/2007

Sama Tower

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/7761/imresolt181hz6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/8481/imresolt179cw7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

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WOW...NICE render!!!

funny
so now we are back to the old design, but just a shorter version of it

excellent, it looks awesome

That render shows 60 floors

funny
so now we are back to the old design, but just a shorter version of it

excellent, it looks awesome

Dennis, the design was never changed ... just shortened.

Sama tower looks great!

Render looks awesome!!!

Great progress btw!! Board says 51 floors ??? Who knows?? :hm:

Reminder of the render


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p016f3c84384cdc653006cf30fc7e420f/e8e3f67f.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pb17248e338eb5c3bb79462b50af28819/e8e66ad2.jpg


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pa315956dd962501cf7610d242f3f4379/e8e66abe.jpg


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p19967099fbfefcf787c63190d93754ae/e8e66ba8.jpg


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p158238eb60497a4c80e230a0f466a336/e8e669d8.jpg


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p3f86b2aa64c61ec45381f9b6fdb16d91/e8e66515.jpg


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p0d184d474013d1a978b36e7490eb7fa2/e8e664ef.jpg

:omg: This one is so fast and looks so great in the render!!!

yep its comming up fast as dubai towers do

hate to say it but remember when this was 300m plus and called Al durrah and I told you all its height was cut, well here we are at last i feel vindicated

^^ We knew that for months ... but I think you should ... MUST check the Al Raffi Complex thread :runaway:

14/July/2007

Sama Tower

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/9458/imresolt029kb3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

25/July/2007

SAMA TOWER

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7549/imresolt07wx8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/6420/imresolt08oz1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

One floor per week more or less.

i prefer previous one!

^^ Which other one???

04/08/2007

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/7320/p1040743be3.jpg

Working on the 6th floor now.

BTW compare it with the latest update in 25/07 and you'll notice they've added 2 more floors, which means they are doing now 1 floor in 5 days :eek: :cheers:

^^ Which other one???
i mean previous render/design

anyway these tower is dangerous loool just look at the bottom too slim scary though!!!

it will add more beauty to SZR :)

awesome! this one is really fast and i am happy they did not change the design.

just amazing.. why Sama though? not Sama Dubai?

Those columns look pretty thick. Maybe it will go higher...

^^ Not neccessarily but as the building gets wider in the front while rising (opposite at the back), those columns would have to support the weight of the "suspended" part as well.

24/Aug/2007

SAMA TOWER

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/5740/imresolt175rj7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/4507/imresolt176ac7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/275/imresolt178wl1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

14/September/2007

Sama Tower

http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/9043/imresolt070br3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6442/imresolt071ug3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/2425/imresolt072nl5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Nice to see, that there is one tower, who ist fast :master:

Work here continues with the speed of one floor per week. We are on the 13th floor slab now, with the central core being 2 - 3 floors ahead. :cheers:

Wow, good speed.

30/09/2007

http://i24.tinypic.com/2im5q9f.jpg

15/Oct/2007

Sama Tower

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/6059/imresolt12dc4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

from the Atkins stand:

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/74/imresolt309mr9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

good speed... and it is getting wider.. this will be one hell of a landmark if come from dubai on SZR.

Wow!! Never knew about this tower, it has a simple yet clean design. It will not be one of the tallest in Dubai but its design is far better than the majority of building present and currently under construction there.

^^ It would have been way better if the new Airport restriction didn't "cut" the height from 330 to just 200 meters.