Emirates Towers
Dubai, UAE

HEIGHT: 355m/1,163 feet and 309m/1,014 feet
FLOORS: 56 floors and 54 floors
COMPLETION: 2000
ARCHITECT: Norr Group Consultants Int. Ltd.

This pair of towers pierce the sky over Dubai with spires over 1,000 feet tall; an appropriate way for the United Arab Emirates to welcome in the turn of the millennium. The taller tower's main function is to hold offices. The lesser tower is mostly taken up with a hotel. The strength of the towers is conveyed through the concrete columns on the three corners framing the remainder of the facade which is primarily glass.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/skyscraperrot/emirates01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/skyscraperrot/emirates02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/skyscraperrot/emirates03.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/skyscraperrot/emirates04.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/skyscraperrot/emirates05.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/skyscraperrot/emirates06.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/skyscraperrot/emirates07.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/skyscraperrot/emiratesnight.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/skyscraperrot/emiratesbase.jpg

Those buildings, 8.5/10. Those awesome pics, 10/10.

7/10

The atrium is impressive and the two buildings create a unique visual experience but I dont really fancy them.

An article I found from the web

Twin Peaks
On a moisture-laden summer day in Dubai, edges are blurred. Cars race by on Sheikh Zayed Road, spasmodically disrupting the shimmering still-life. High-rise after high-rise stands dutifully erect on either side of the thoroughfare, a sentry to the horizon.

In the distance, two monoliths rise above the rest, huddled in graceful solitude. They are set back from the city’s artery. Like two children ashamed of their size, they watch from afar as the littler ones line up to play.

Then, as one leaves the throb of traffic, drawing nearer through weaving avenues, the towers begin to move. Here a road bends, the view changes, a whirl of concrete; there a lane dips, the angles shift again, a pirouette in steel. Seldom does a 51-storey behemoth seem animate, and yet here, two of them appear to dance. Under a hazy blanket, two giants gently waltz.

And as the day grows cooler and the air more transparent, the dance step quickens, metallic surfaces twinkling, contours growing bolder. The children are gone, and in their place is a noble testament to form and life.

When three lines meet

In the summer of 1994, seven international architectural firms were invited to compete for a project: a 30-storey building on Sheikh Zayed Road. Seven ideas were submitted, four were shortlisted. The program changed. Now, twin towers were called for, set back from the highway and framing the Dubai World Trade Centre when viewed from the south. The height of the towers was to be at least twice that of the Trade Centre. Another submission, a winner — NORR Group Consultants — was chosen, and the Emirates Towers project was born — a landmark development constituting a business hotel and an office building.

According to Hazel Wong, design architect for the project, and at that time representative of NORR, the animate nature of the towers was not merely a fortunate turn of events. “It was presented in the competition as a composition similar to a pas-de-deux. Clad in aluminium panels with copper and silver reflective glass, the towers capture the changing light of the desert sun. So as you drive around them, they change from every angle. It’s a dynamic composition rather than a static one, and that’s very important, especially when the buildings can be viewed from all parts of the city.”

At a height of 350 metres, the Emirates Towers office building is the tallest in the Middle East and Europe — an achievement in its own right, but all the more impressive considering the seemingly ethereal silhouette. Rooted in stepped, granite-plated structures that cascade onto gardens and water features to cover 169,000 square metres, the slender towers soar in geometric simplicity, tapering off to two points of light in the sky.

“To achieve the height,” says the MIT graduate, “I started focusing on an equilateral triangle form, which serves a few purposes. First of all, it distributes the structural load at its three farthest corners, which would give the stability that a high building needs. But beyond that, it is a form that is evocative of the Islamic culture: in the pattern of a triangle, the points represent the earth, the sun and the moon. And recurring circle elements in the tower, at the base and at the top, echo the circle of the ‘timeless whole’, which means eternity in the Islamic context. So, very subtly, the Islamic culture is integrated.”

It is this subtlety, perhaps, that makes for a very un-Arabic pair of buildings. Catering to the business sector, the Emirates Towers were designed to appeal to any and all nationalities — the pure sculptural forms may sit just as comfortably in Hong Kong, New York or Prague.

However, a more conscious effort to Arabise the site was made in the bed of structures from which the towers blossom. Housing a shopping centre and parking facilities, the underlying tiered formations ripple outwards in what Wong likes to think of as “shifting sand dunes in the wind”. These and the terraced plazas, lush landscaping and 80-metre-wide waterfall combine to form an oasis in the heart of the “concrete jungle” that is Dubai. But even here, the clean, curvilinear planes reflect the simplicity of the two buildings they serve.

“As you move from the base to the top of the project, you look at very earthy materials, from pre-cast concrete to granite and clear glass, which gives you the transparency, up to more high-tech materials such as aluminium panels, insulated reflective glazing and stainless steel. In doing that, you make the transition from roots to technology, which really takes Dubai into the second millennium.”

A fine outcome for what started out as a 30-storey office block.

For the full article,
http://www.stars.com/sci_tech/99838287790950.htm

one word, MASTERPIECE. 10/10

Very cool and somewhat futuristic looking. That first pic of the towers over the clouds is really awesome. 9/10

AMAZING 10/10 . . looks like they are from another world . .

7.5 / 10

not too special to me

They work well together, nothing less than perfect.

10/10

Brilliant - albeit with spires dubiously added for +50m height .
(as with every tall building in dubai) 9

great-9/10 :)

very tasty

8/10

über-nice, loving the atrium and the angles at which they "look" at each other ;)

8

tays

how could you vote 3 or less?

8/10... IMO both of the towers should have been the same hight.

I've liked this one for awhile now, as well. A very enjoyable visual. 8. (Nice photos, too.)

I'm not that keen on these 2, though nice at night, but most scrapers are. 6\10 not in that colour, u know whata mean m8.

WOW, that first picture looks surreal! :angel1: :)

I love the first picture!!:eek:

They are fine looking towers...8/10

8/10 Nice Lobby, great building

nice towers!
i like the 2nd pic...creates a massive impression!
8.5/10

oh~ yeh~ one of my fav building~ 9/10!!
nice pic!!:cool:

I gave it a 8.5/10

8.5/10 - I've tacked on an extra point for how amazing they look at night. The slim trianglur shapes help them take to the sky, and the additions added here and there give them a nice, futuristic air. Plus, they can relate to each other very effectively. Finally, that soaring atrium is amazing!

But the facades could use a bit of livening up - the sections that are primarilly stone look rather bland, if not harsh, and detract form the overall appearance And I"m not quite sure about the roofs

the design & height are impressive...very creative...the triangular roof lines look great...about the only thing I don't like is how separated it is from the rest of the city but then again we're judging the buildings!
it get's 9/10.

Pretty cool. I don't like the colour but I do like the design. How about more windows? Looks cool at night. 7.0

For some reason I don't like the top, its too sharp imo. I forgot what I voted, 8.0 or 7.5:D

Who are these people that rate these 3 or less? Anyway, I gave it 9/10..! Great towers.

7.7/10

Nice buildings, glad to see some modern ones that aren't clad entirely in glass. Don't like the offset height though. They should have been same height, or just one.

Outstanding 9.5

It's one of my favourite buildings
10/10

I do not really like the style of these two buildings. 6/10

Those 2 towers together are the BOMB! :cheers:
You can't find towers like these on our planet too much.Very unique!
And that first pic is awsome!
9.0/10 Btw

yum yum! so futuristic looking and way ahead of the field. a personal favourite. i hope they dont build any other talls near by in the future...these beauties need to be seen. 9.5 out of 10!

Wow.....7/10. :)

7.5 These 2 work together very well... great shapes.. however, I don't like the bases... and the facade is bland

Expensive kitsch !

Best buildings in Dubai!! The shape is really distinctive! I like how they angled the sister tower.. Very well matched with the taller one :D :cool: The lighting is very good too :)

10/10

WOW it is amazing, one of my new favorites, the atrium is massive and very impresive, at night looks great, and the pics were even better I liked the one with the fighter's squadron:master:

It put Dubai on the map and if it weren't for the spire...... 9.5/10

WOW WOW WOW!
Those towers are amazing, perfect, incredible. At night they look from another world, unbelievable. 10/10 for sure.

awesome, 8.5

Whoa, nice towers!!! I really like them, they look so futuristic! 9/10

5.5/10

9/10...They are a bit too futuristic for me but I appreciate their innovative design and what they accomplish. I like the fact that there's nothing ordinary about the buildings, the base, facade, top, spire, positioning everything is unique.

8.5

Great towers
massive impact
And so sharp they cut the clouds and scrape the sky
8.5/10

I love this tower from the bottom to the top, at night they look impressive 9.5/10

8.5/10

Depending on the view they look nicier.

9/10

9/10
Awesome!
Amazing towers, very unique & futurustic.
The two towers look very beautiful at night.

Very beautiful. 9/10

modern , futurist, original, perfect, 10/10 :D

Emirates tower
355 metres
http://www.greatestcities.com/1173pic/861/CP12861.jpg/ET10.JPG
http://www.greatestcities.com/1126pic/860/CP12860.jpg/ET6.JPG
http://www.greatestcities.com/1014pic/858/CP12858.jpg/ET3.JPG
http://www.greatestcities.com/1052pic/859/CP12859.jpg/ET4.JPG
http://www.greatestcities.com/0973pic/857/CP12857.jpg/ET2.JPG
http://www.greatestcities.com/0920pic/856/CP12856.jpg/ET1.JPG
All picture taken and posted by GO_UAE
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There is already a thread about the Emirates Towers in the top 100 here (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4769)

Thanks Atlantica! and great pics Dany01 :okay:

Amazing !
Great design; 9/10

10/10

The pics are impressive.

7/10. Original design but this not my kind of scraper.

Like the shape, and the facade. :) 9/10

these buildings are very futuristic :D 8/10

See them every day now
So worth it
now 10/10

Masterfully created. Superb complex all around. My rating is 10!

The design for me...................................9

7.5/10

Like the towers. The offset height doesnt bother me, but doesnt impress me. I like the top with those windows, but the facade is too stark, even for me. Interesting lower levels tho, and atrium. A very nice building. Will help Dubai look great as a lot more gets built in the next couple years

8/10

i don't like the design that much. but height is very impressive;)

Maybe Trances can help me out here

Are these towers, esp the office (taller one) like Kingdom Centre in Saudi Arabia in that the top 1/3 of the buildings are ornamental

I see 355 meters, yet 54 storeys to me says half the building is being taken up without floor space, either that or you are some tall people in UAE ;-)

I like the designs, but I hate buildings that are ornamental...people complain about Freedom Tower as cheating, but I hate these Hidden Cheats even more, like Kingdom Centre, Domiko (or whatever it is called) Tower in Tokyo etc...

I have never been a huge fan of these twins, I will be very happy when Burj Dubai is built so taht these are no longer Dubai's tallest

On a different note, I had no idea only 650,000 people live in the city of Dubai, are all these buildings office space?

The following is a production photo from the new sci-fi movie "CODE 46" with Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton, opening in North America on Aug 6th

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/mgm/code_46/tim_robbins/code2.jpg

Part of the movie was filmed in Dubai.

Emirates towers, to respond to a question, are office building the 355 m and the 305 m tower is a 5 star hotel and they are united by a shopping arcade. I love Vu's Bar, on the 51st (top) floor of the hotel. The view is great, the bar itself is GREAT.

Well the Floor are very High I know that and yes much of the top after where the bands and cuverd glass end and the Angle starts. So yes there is cheating in you want to call it that !

gorgeous.

9/10

Vus bar rules.At sunset its an amazing place

I was up at VU's last night... I love the ET's and everything inside. So elegant, subtle, yet beastly and innovative.

I tried to read into Hazel Wong's source for ideas in creating this, but my reasearch was unconclusive. Nevertheless, I still believe that the towers carry an idea which was first introduced by Dali on one of his works. It is called Archaeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus from 1935.

It is the two figures facing each other but not directly, protruding noticeably above and beyond everything else around. I think the pics speak for themselves... Have a look a the link below and tell me what you think!??

http://www.virtualdali.com/35ArchaeologicalReminiscences.html

And the reason why it is so striking to me is because I have an ultraviolet interpretation of this painting in my apt!!! and it is spectacular and huuuuuge!!!!! I will try posting a picture of it when I get a chance!!!!

Cheers,
Roberto

Great buildings, crap location. 8.5

Great buildings, crap location. 8.5

Retarted :bash:

this is for the guy describing the location as crap!

have more more impressive pics on my german computer! these i've taken from my dubai residence last week!

http://www.ayuplanet.com/dxblover/Tower Photos/Skyline/13.jpg

http://www.ayuplanet.com/dxblover/Tower Photos/Skyline/14.jpg

http://www.ayuplanet.com/dxblover/Tower Photos/Skyline/15.jpg

http://www.ayuplanet.com/dxblover/Tower Photos/Skyline/16.jpg

http://www.ayuplanet.com/dxblover/Tower Photos/Skyline/17.jpg

http://www.ayuplanet.com/dxblover/Tower Photos/Skyline/18.jpg

http://www.ayuplanet.com/dxblover/Tower Photos/Skyline/19.jpg

http://www.ayuplanet.com/dxblover/Tower Photos/Skyline/20.jpg

another one:
http://www.ayuplanet.com/dxblover/Tower Photos/Skyline/3.jpg

driving down the highway through this skyline is like heaven on earth and it will even get much more impressive when the financial center, the burj dubai complex and the other 15 towers (under construction right now) on this road will be completed.

just for your information, this is a pic of the highway in 1992. nothing back then, today about 100 towers and still growing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
today this highway runs through a canyon of towers on the left and right side.

http://www.ayuplanet.com/dxblover/Tower Photos/Skyline/10.jpg

8.5/10

8.5 nice design, but they should have added more glass.

a esto le llamaria verdadera aquitectura moderna la verdad son muy llamativas le doy un 10 :)

These two buildings seem to argue- indeed to bite!- at each other rather than to harmonize. The shot in the fog is great: fantastic!, but, looking at the night-shots of Dubai, there's a building to the right which captures my eye, rather than these towers: I guess I prefer symmetry.

Dubai's Twin Towers: very interesting architecture, moreso because they AREN'T the same height, but I'm glad they're not in my town. They wouldn't fit here. Very up-front Twenty-First Century. Very aggressive buildings. Perhaps it suits the landscape.

7.5/10

hmmm ... I have a pretty slow line here, and the pictures are still coming in ... I can see I am going to ruffle some feathers. Very angular buildings.

Don't like them too much. 6.

i am having trouble placing the towers in that old photo can some one explain to me
Also that one market as
"nother one"
has few extra towers not that maters much

I admit they are very interesting and I like them a little but there not really one my type's. 7/10

Great design! Futuristic looking, and the use of triangles in the design is interesting. 9/10.

8/10!

9/10
Very futuristic, cool, sharp design. :cool:

8.5

Overall, I think they're pretty cool. Like the way different facades and glass colors/shapes mix to form quite a unique modern set of towers. I wish more bldgs used bronze/brown glass. The entire complex they rest upon is very attractive as well. Would look pretty interesting if eveything developed thickly around them. They almost try too hard to be different but IMO they succeed. Nice!

7/10 - Not bad

8/10

10/10

The first built towers in Dubai that I have seen and approved.

I like them , Dubai's landmark 8/10

Very nice building 8.5/10

10/10

The first built towers in Dubai that I have seen and approved.
what do you mean ?

a bit too artificial 7.5/10

amazing, wunderbar, úžasný, niebywały

10/10

8/10 best of Dubai

great staple of modern architecture! 10/10!

Some aerial views of the towers:
http://www.pbase.com/bmcmorrow/dubaiaerials&page=all

Some pics at the bottom:
http://www.pbase.com/bmcmorrow/dubai&page=12

Some at the top:
http://www.pbase.com/bmcmorrow/dubai&page=13

when i first rated this complex back during my early days in ssc, i thought that those buildings are really ill-thought out, so i gave them a really bad ranking.

but now, i find those towers to be quite intriguing. their triangular shapes really make them look retro from some angles and they have a nice, crisp, and clean look to them. i don't like the back side of the hotel tower, but everything else about them is cool.

if i can change what i ranked for these two buildings, i'd give them a 9 (9.5 for the office tower and 8.5 for the hotel tower)

"what do you mean ?" Trances

That after the Burj al Arab I don't like anything else in Dubai. simple as that

BTW can anyone post the pics again? Photobucket bandwidth exceeded

Dubai supreme.
8,5/10

Wonderdul buildings in Amanzing City

10 points

:cheers:

Beautiful, 8/10

never knew they were THIS tall! 10/10

10/10

nice all round

crazy!!!! 10/10

THey are cool but somehow I don't like them, that much.

8

These towers are something I would call "one of a kind" very unique... 10/10

The design it great. very futuristic. But what make these towers is the way the interact with each other in the skyline. Simply awesome. 8.5

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid159/pd847a38d4250950cf806edc3de1a06b3/f4fec716.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid157/p49463a1c3eb8973eff712d49251936de/f537637a.jpg

A pic of Emirates Towers that i found
http://img169.exs.cx/img169/2570/dsc00723emiratestn3iv.jpg

Lovely ,sexy , hot!!!!10/10

Fantastic! 9/10

at the tip of the spires are powerful beam lights that shine vertically into the sky. when the towers were completed, they had those lights on for a few days and it looked awesome. too bad we dont see that anymore. 10/10

I don't like it that much, 7/10

8/10

Growing to like this city. 8/10

http://www.kerala.com/dubai/pic-3.jpg

new one i guess.. did not see it so far...

http://www.skyscraperpicture.com/dubai03.jpg

wow, nice twin tower 9/10, you gotta love this city...proabaly be the top 4 in skyline for the world(after NYC, chicago, and HK)

it will overtake those 3 you mentioned soon.... hehe.
ok stop or discussion will rise again...

Geometrically beautiful from the ground up. I give it a 9/10. Keep up the good work Dubai. :okay:

10, this is one of the most remarkable skyscrapers in the world.

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/UaeDxbSkyscrprsZabeelVw2415.jpg

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/UaeDxbEmirtsTwrsNt1415.jpg

two more nice shots...

http://files.bighosting.net/oz20939.jpg
http://files.bighosting.net/zv20943.jpg

Father and son-very nice family! awesome pictures! Why can't we have something like this in Holland ? 9.5/10

I love those towers soooo much, easily a 10/10 for me.

Not bad towers, 7/10

Theres something I don't like about these buildings but i can't put my finger on it. 5/10

Theres something I don't like about these buildings but i can't put my finger on it. 5/10

Maybe too beautiful for u?

Very cool design...would be a great addition to any major skyscraper city. 9.5/10

superchan, you obviously play cs :D well anyway, these towers look like they should be in Shanghai :) very modern indeed [they should be next to the pearl tower]

Iii ? Where is my reply in there gone ? ^^

I was saying that I like the materials and futuristic aspect of it, sleek design, and the mini-me ;-)
What I don't like is that the tower is not very balanced, too disymetric imo.
7.

7.5/10

The shape is pretty nice and the facade is exotic.

9/10 i like it :)

9/10 Very cool.

http://files.bighosting.net/yd47233.bmp
http://files.bighosting.net/cz47235.jpg

Theres something I don't like about these buildings but i can't put my finger on it. 5/10

I agree. Ugly buildings. 5/10

Interesting and original design but not my favorite style ;) 8/10

Nice towers. 8.5/10.

dazz found this in an HD Trailer to the movie "Serenity".
thanks! http://www.tp.spt.fi/~jukarkil/uae/emirates_tower_serenity.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/altin/P1000215-1.jpg

9/10

7.0 - They look like they're made of plastic.

they looks as sharp as a knife if you stand in front of them.

9/10

cool buildings

Near prefection ! 9.5/10

I took this shot from top of Chelsea Tower.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/vtalibaba/20313018.jpg

9.0 Do I need to say more??

yepp you have to.
why didn't you give a 10 :D

10/10

I have loved these buildings since the first time I saw them. I love the design! It's very futuristic and a great way to usher in the new millenium. The best buildings on SZR right now. It deserves a 9.5 but it gets an additional 0.5 because I just love dubai soo much. m))

Unique but not the best design IMO. 6.5/10.

i don't want to offend anyone but i always wonder how someone could rate these two less than 8...

7/10

Absolutely perfect in all its details
9.5/10

7/10

the best in the world, yet.

Night shot by me

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a8/sahmad/5d520d68.jpg

Stunnig Gr8, thanx for the pic :)

typical dubai building

i love this building.

8.0/10

Hotel Tower

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a8/sahmad/acb4b609.jpg

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a8/sahmad/4ed941cb.jpg

Top of the Office Tower

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a8/sahmad/0d1732c6.jpg

9/10 evening pictures are nice :)

It's ok, but it just doesn't look nearly as tall as it really is.

- Flyer Fan

5/10

can u explain why 5/10? Ninnghizhidda thanks, it was my first time shooting at night. :)

10 for sure

Pretty Nice 8.5

9/10
the curved parts fit so well in this triangular structure, I also like the colours...great towers

I don´t really like very much this tower 7/10

AMAZING . . looks like they are from another world . .

10/10

Not a big fan of these towers, a little too much blank grey facade for me, although a glass curtain wall would be very energy inefficient under the harsh middle eastern sun so I suppose I shouldn't complain. At the opposite end of the spectrum is the National Commerce Bank (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=126082) in Jeddah.

But we're rating the Emirates Towers together and they do work very well together so I give them 7/10

^ jealous

Ya gotta love guys 8.0

I`ll give 10 points. Tower looks kinda futuristic.

sorry but not my thing. 7.5/10

10/10

Perfect tower 10/10
I wish i could vote more than that

8/10. Strange looking building.

10/10 for sure. i love Dubai i hope one day i can visit it.

what great building..
10/10 and the second one 11/10

8/10, it's tall, glassy, modern but I don't like its design.

8.5/10

6.

8/10

9/10
great building...very futuristic and i love its distinct look, however the location sucks!!

the location sucks? rude statement, explain.. mr.chicago..

^ Maybe he meant SOX :tongue2:

Great achievement. The "Burj Dubai" of the last decade. 10/10

The 3 towers marks a deep impression to me. 10/10

3 towers? :lol:

masterpiece 9

8.5/10......

9/10. They are very nice towers, and make a good contribution to Dubai's skyline.

Great building 9/10

They're nice buildings. But the only thing I don't like about themis that they use their spires as a way to get more height. 9.5/10

8/10 and agree with ^^.

8/10
like one of those buildings in some futuristic cartoons/animation created buring the 80's

:)

10/10 Dubai has sleek towers

8/10

I like it 8/10

+∞/10

speechless 10/10

Cool towers
8.5/10

9/10 I have a love/hate relationship with these two. At first I feel its merits no better than a 6. It annoys me that their height in entirely due to super thin spires. But in this case, the spires work very well for the general aesthetics. add a point. there are so many small touches that are really cool about these 2 also. On the flat back side of the hotel tower you can tell its an open lobby area. it shows up better in the picture taken at night. you can see the large 30+ floor hollow area. the horizontal notches on the trunk of the tower actually make is seem a little shorter than it should. minus a point. large glassy circular lobby under a triangle shaped tower- fun with shapes. add a point. no matter what angle you look at them, their height doesn't seem impressive, even for being in the middle of a flat desert. lose a point. nice use of glass and coloring. add a point. somewhat twin towers. add a point and flat out looking pretty cool together. add a point. futuristic looking enough to be digitally added into a future city in a movie (Serenity) add a point. final score- 9. second best dubai has to offer so far.

^^ have you seen them in reality?

8/10 They're ok but in a couple of years they're gonna look really dated.

wow impressive..8.5/10.

Not enough details for a great look during the day. They are nice together and have nice shape. They look great at night! 8

Nice twins 10/10

http://i3.************/w0127l.jpg

^^ NICE PIC

7/10

6,5/10

8/10!!!...........looks good...

7.5/10 nice

http://212.20.96.20/hejda-foto/uae04big.jpg
http://212.20.96.20/hejda-foto/uae05big.jpg
http://212.20.96.20/hejda-foto/uae07big.jpg
http://212.20.96.20/hejda-foto/uae09big.jpg

:okay: really looks nice

Absolutely great...Unbelievable shape, amazing colours...I'm loving it...

one my favourite buildings in Dubai 9/10

http://mishami.image.pbase.com/u47/deep_heart/upload/30286954.DSC_12751.jpg

http://mk29.image.pbase.com/u47/deep_heart/upload/30286948.DSC_12901.jpg

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8/10

i give 10 just for the atriums.

great towers, but they should be a little bit higher: 8.5/10

taller? :weird:

both are supertall...

9.5/10...they seem kind of fake :D

10/10. One of the best buildings in the world, IMO.

9.5/10...they seem kind of fake :D

Well, they are in Dubai ;)

8/10

9.5/10 Really nice

8/10

a well-designed project.

10!

8/10 so futuristic ,but the top could be better

7/10

10/10

9.5/10. I dont know why, but I like buildings in Dubai alot.

Good design !

9.5 / 10

I really love the futuristic design, and the shape is really cool, too. The only downside is the instant cut-off at the edge. Otherwise it would get a 10/10. As it is it's 9.5/10, but I really love them!

7.5 / 10

Cute. Top and facade well managed but flirting dangerously with the type of cigarette lighter designs common in mainland China.

definitely a cut above the rest...very nice.

The towers are nice but I took a little off because of the lack of urban context.
6.5/10

Looks pretty cool. I like the color combination. The gold accent works perfectly against blue and silvery gray. Night views are stunning.

But I dislike the "twin tower" mentality.

9 / 10.

i love how they complement each other... totally modern... 10

A bit like the citigroup feel. Shiny though. 8.

10. brilliant!

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6/10

9.5 / 10

Wish they had built one supertall instead of 2 medium towers. There's really no point in building 2 similar buildings right next to each other.