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Dhat al-Ahmat towers
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Burj El Fatah, Corinthia, Dhat El Imad
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Wowio, tripoli seems to be a very quiet city...

I agree, some parts seem as if there is no activity going on. However, there is much more to this city, I'll post more soon.

this city needs alot of constructions..it looks so poor and underdevolpment

I wouldn't use the word poor but old comes to mind. It needs a new face lift pronto!!

Well, it don't look as bad as some ppl make it seem. What this city appears to be is sparse, not so dense for a city of it's size. It does have some unique looking talls, so to speak.

These residential buildings seems it was constructed recently.
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Artificial lake close to Assai Al-Hamra (Red Castle) and Al Saaha Alkhadhraa (the Green Square) is landscaped with palm trees as is much of Tripoli.
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I like the Unique architecture but It looks more like a town than a city to me...

BTW, what I meant by sparse is the coastal area where Tripoli's talls are located. Not the entire city of course. :)

\:P I guess so

Corenthia Hotel
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Question, Is tripoli the biggest city in Libya??

Question, Is tripoli the biggest city in Libya??

That is correct. It's population is about 1,682,000. Benghazi is the 2nd biggest city with a population about 660,147 - 950,000.

There is a Benghazi on this forum also.

Nice pictures, the Dhat al-Ahmat towers look interesting.

Tripoli looks better than I expected! soem really nice places ...
Moroccanboy said Tripolis is "so poor and underdevelopped". Well, poor and underdevelopped is something different at least in my eyes, but I agree with you on the aspect of more constructions....but Lybia is still rich and has one of Africa´s - if not the highest - HDI Index! So it can´t be "so poor and underdevelopped" as said earlier.

if libya is so rich,where is the money? from a country like libya i accept more!! niamey (niger) looks better.

education is bad,healthcare is bad,infrastructur is bad ..where are all the bn's kadafhi from the oil?
i heard from the people who have visite tripoli.they said,its so boring ! no nightlife.you become crazy there...everywere where u go u see the pictures of dictator kadaffi an his greenbook full with fairytales.

libya need educated person,like his sun..maybe than can libya become a second DUBAI inshallah..if we have still that scizofranic person..libya will never change

Here is Niamey since it was mentioned.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=385259&highlight=niamey

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TRIPOLI IS ACTUALLY A VERY ATTRACTIVE CITY....

dont they have a beach in tripoli

Some more Pictures

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Tripoli Tower Concept.
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P.S The other buildings are actual buildings in the Tripoli CBD.:)

I have had a week trip to tripoli.Actually,I do agree with Moroccanguy to some extent that it's underdevelop with regards to many things like night-life,modern buildings,education,social-life and above all intolerant attitude litters the whole places.More need to be done in a country that's so rich as Libya---well,the wealth is oil.I wish to see many tall modern buildings springing up in tripoli.

I have had a week trip to tripoli.Actually,I do agree with Moroccanguy to some extent that it's underdevelop with regards to many things like night-life,modern buildings,education,social-life and above all intolerant attitude litters the whole places.More need to be done in a country that's so rich as Libya---well,the wealth is oil.I wish to see many tall modern buildings springing up in tripoli.
Libya's military budget is as large as war-time budget.:ohno:

I trust you guys that have been there when you say the place is dull with no night life etc. But, to me, this place looks gorgeous, at least from a distance. Being on the water, with nice open squares, sidewalk restaurants, those narrow streets with little stores and cafes, and some great Mediterrainean architecture give this city great charm.

Corinthia Tripoli Hotel
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I very like these mushroomshaped skyscrapers , I'd like to see many many more in different forms and colors , they all look so light and elegant , congratulations to the architect.:)

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Jamahiriyya Museum
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Gate to Medina
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That is correct. It's population is about 1,682,000. Benghazi is the 2nd biggest city with a population about 660,147 - 950,000.

There is a Benghazi on this forum also.

Stormshadow can I please have the link for Benghazi thread, as I cannot find it.

Stormshadow can I please have the link for Benghazi thread, as I cannot find it.

Sure. :cheers:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=436188

Thanks for your quick reply.:banana:

Lots of palm trees.. Looks nice! As people said, it looks more like a village than like a large city! And I think it makes Tripoli much attractive! Italian and muslim archicteture.. The modern muslim-architectured buildings look very great! Beautiful city..

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parlano l'italiano en libya ?? but trippoli needs more development

The coastal area of this city appears more developed, from west to east portion.
Arabic is the official language of Libya, probably Italian and English is understood and spoken by a certain number of it's population.

can anyone get info on that tripoli tower project, it looks very interesting and the lott that the design is placed on is actually vacant. I wonder if they started the construction on it.

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I like this city. It looks clean, organized and lots of interesting architecture. It doesn't look crowded either.

I like this city. It looks clean, organized and lots of interesting architecture. It doesn't look crowded either.

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But the skyline is decent for Tripoli really I hope that the icomes from tehir huge oil production will help the lybian population.

They need to open their economy to liberalism and diversify it otherwise they won`t be able to compete !!

The Lybians are very similar to us ( specially the tunsiians of the SOuth culturally we are close we both speak the same dialect but other than that the mentality is different, they heatlh , education system is outdated ...

everything there is outdated man so much money less people but still they must profite of it

khaddafi and the gov keeps de people dumb

its beautiful

Actually i think tripoli is beautiful. It has more high rise buildings than our own casablanca. Libya is definatily on my holiday list.

I saw on tv that they are going to build a lot of towers in Tripoli..

Libya has more Roman monuments then Italy. They have old Roman cities who are in good condition but they haven't got much tourisme..
Libya has in tourisme so much potential..

more pictures please

Morocconboy earlier said that Libya is a poor country with poor infrastructure , while another person I met on a site said she was shocked with poverty rate among LIbyans when she visited Tripoli earlier this year.

But how come Libya's HDI is high ? How come life expectancy of Libya is high ? ( 76.2 years ) ? How come all the pics shows very beautiful, clean, and organized images of Tripoli ? With very beautiful avenues and highways ?

I really need explanation on that.

panoramio:

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Tarek Alwan

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Red Castle
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Photography by Tark Siala

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Morocconboy earlier said that Libya is a poor country with poor infrastructure , while another person I met on a site said she was shocked with poverty rate among LIbyans when she visited Tripoli earlier this year.

But how come Libya's HDI is high ? How come life expectancy of Libya is high ? ( 76.2 years ) ? How come all the pics shows very beautiful, clean, and organized images of Tripoli ? With very beautiful avenues and highways ?

I really need explanation on that.
This demonstarates how the statistics can be biased !
Logicaly, i can't accept for example, lybia is more developped ( taking account on HDI) than SA or Morocco.

Tripoli constructions : The city is really booming the gov is aiming to spend up to 200 billions into their basic infrastructures:nuts:

The Daewoo Tower is now the tallest of the Maghreb ...

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36 floors !

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Tripoli is booming ! Nice towers !

Woooow, city is beautiful and looks very clean. The city is really booming, I didn't know that.

very nice Mashallah

Beautiful city

Woooow, city is beautiful and looks very clean. The city is really booming, I didn't know that.

NOT according to atleast one foreign visitor to the city of Tripoli (hopefully that'll change for better when Gaddafi is gone).

Here is her travelblog excerpt..


The driving in Libya is pretty dreadful, in fact life in Tripoli is pretty tough on all fronts. I found myself constantly being reminded of experiences from our other 3 postings, but here it was all happening in the one place

Severan Arch, Leptis Magna. They drive like idiots, and fast - wrong way up a 3-4 lane road, no probs. Lots of accidents, we were sideswiped before we even reached the hotel (Eric also has an armoured Landcruiser, didn't seem to bother the battered little taxi though...), nobody bothered to stop. The hotel was quite good, with a bit of a view to the old Medina (city) and the corniche (coast). The rubbish everywhere was extreme - I have seen places with that much rubbish before, but not absolutely everywhere - the place could do with a recycling industry at the very least! Plastic is such a curse. There were some interesting touches, like the 2 semi-submerged fishing boats in the harbour - left there as a reminder of the American bombing of Gadaffi's palace, and banners everywhere celebrating his 38 years delivering freedom and happiness to the oppressed (he has just begun a program to build housing for the poor, he must have had a lot on his mind these last 38 years).
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http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/suesy6652/dubai_n_beyond/1193231280/tpod.html

The weather was pleasantly cool and rainy after Dubai and the old centre, Martyrs Square or Green Square, (which I guess is named after the Libyan flag, a stunning piece of thoughtful design - it is plain green) has many dilapidated Italian buildings and small streets opening into little piazza's - some of the buildings are being restored and the area has great potential (found ourselves saying this a lot!) as it has a lovely European feel. The local women wear traditional clothing with headscarves but we didn't see any face veils - the men in long tunics and pants.


Read more: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/suesy6652/dubai_n_beyond/1193231280/tpod.html#ixzz1Ep0IdDMe

Very revealing photoblog of Tripoli:

http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2011/02/20/in-the-land-of-the-brother-leader-2/

Morocconboy earlier said that Libya is a poor country with poor infrastructure , while another person I met on a site said she was shocked with poverty rate among LIbyans when she visited Tripoli earlier this year.

But how come Libya's HDI is high ? How come life expectancy of Libya is high ? ( 76.2 years ) ? How come all the pics shows very beautiful, clean, and organized images of Tripoli ? With very beautiful avenues and highways ?

I really need explanation on that.

I'm shocked too, it looks so underdevelopped and dirty (except some skyscrapers) when you compare it with its neighbours (Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco)! :ohno: I was expecting a skyline like Dubai's one Where goes the money Mr Murdrer Khaddafi? :bash:

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Man, Tripoli is amazing..
Very Beautiful..
Long Live Gaddafi!
Sorry, I support Colonel Gaddafi (my opinion :) )

:cheers:

You know Qadafi had stoped spending on military like he used to do in the past. He was planing to expand his wonder water engineering project reserves to egypt and Sudan and also building houses for the poor. Is it a coincident then Obama wanted him out after him getting a bit soft for good for once after his long rule……..