DUBAI | The Pentominium | 516m | 1693ft | 122 fl | On Hold

[allan_dude]

Amazing height & design!

[malec]

Originally Posted by SA BOY

imagine sitting on the 60th floor of your million dollar appartment and not being able to see anything except your neighbours yellow underpants hanging out to dry. The close proximity of these towers , whilst impressive from a clustering point of vierw will be a nightmare as far as traffic, natural light corridors and updraft of wind issues.
Thank goodness I can watch these go up everyday from my terrace as apposed to living in them

Yup. Who's the idiot at emaar that decided to lift height limits on about 20 plots right next to each other? Why couldn't they spread the talls around the marina, maybe clustering 2 or 3 at a time in places. That way more people get nice views and a whole load of other problems don't arise.

Look at this:




This tower should be in place of the trident tower and might take up 2 plots, who knows.

[ZZ-II]

can anyone please add the tower to emporis?

[QatPhils]

SUPERTALL towers again in Dubai!

[Brum Knows Best]

WOW........ would not mind having a flat on the top floor of this tower, AMAZING!!!!!!!

[alexela]

love the height.. but the design.. uh well....

[jack1887]

a unit takes the whole floor .but how many people can live in it .only those can can enjoy Bill gates , Buffet . Most of us can't .but only can appreciate it and
admire those who can live in

[Stephan23]

Originally Posted by ZZ-II

can anyone please add the tower to emporis?

Man, it is at emporis since yesterday. Krazy did it!

[ZZ-II]

hasn't shown me

edit: can't find it on emporis also with the search function.

[Stephan23]

Do the building search section!

[malec]

Originally Posted by jack1887

a unit takes the whole floor .but how many people can live in it .only those can can enjoy Bill gates , Buffet . Most of us can't .but only can appreciate it and
admire those who can live in

Well, there are definitely a lot of people in the Arab world who can afford something like this. The only thing is that it's location is not great, many views will be blocked by surrounding 300m and 400m towers and also isn't that close to the marina.

[DiscoPiratePolarBear]

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...=410579&page=6

Read Post 112 and further down.

Apparently there could be more than one tower

Hope this is true... twin 516m towers

[malec]

A strange article:

http://www.thingsmagazine.net/




A massive render:

[DiscoPiratePolarBear]

[IMG]http://i17.************/43qq5he.jpg[/IMG]

[weird]

F*ck!! another 500+ in Dubai.. that's great! BTW It's so slenderrrrr! The unique "but" it's.. why the tower will have 8 sky-gardens? I guess with a couple will be enough..

Nice tower

[cyborg81]

hey guys how u doin?
just got fresh news from a mate whose uncle is a consultant at trident.these will infact be 2 towers 516 meters each fused together using a unique technology creating one single tower.so these are basically 2 X 120 floor towers fused together an analog to this concept would be the W16 engine of the bugatti veyron where to V8's are fused in unison.
i also found this news artcile in boomberg:

Trident Will Build World's Tallest Residential Tower in Dubai

March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Construction of the world's tallest residential tower will start in Dubai by the end of the year, with the 160 apartments each selling for a minimum of $2.4 million.

The 516 meter-building (1,693 feet) will have two 120-storey towers, with a total of 160 apartments. Each apartment, known as a pentominium will occupy at least one floor and will have at least 6,500 square feet of space, closely held Trident International Holdings said today at the MIPIM real estate conference in Cannes, France.

For more news on real estate in the UAE, see {TNI UAE REL BN <GO>.}

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aDSwRF8H.5Gwscroll down in the middle of the page.

[Sbz2ifc]

Originally Posted by cyborg81

i like this tower overall but the name sounds like some radioactive element missing from the periodic table

Well... if fusion is involved as well... things are starting to make sense.

[cyborg81]

Originally Posted by Sbz2ifc

Well... if fusion is involved as well... things are starting to make sense.

true

[A.U.S. arch. Student]

I agree a million times over, who was the idiot to do such poor planning, of course the final result will still look stunning but it could have been even better if they took these super talls and put them in clusters like u said malec.

Originally Posted by malec

Yup. Who's the idiot at emaar that decided to lift height limits on about 20 plots right next to each other? Why couldn't they spread the talls around the marina, maybe clustering 2 or 3 at a time in places. That way more people get nice views and a whole load of other problems don't arise.

Look at this:




This tower should be in place of the trident tower and might take up 2 plots, who knows.

[malec]

Thing is, I don't think anyone expected this. When they lifted the height limits a few years ago who would have thought every developer would want to build 300, 400 and now 500m towers?