World's NEXT Tallest Residential Tower - the race is on!

[skyperu34]

Very interesting diagram updates ! And so are the panama projects even tough located in the wrong thread... Thanks to all...

[Northerly]

So a stick is in as long as it's not a stick with a radio or tv receiver in it or on the end of it, and if it is, then it's not a stick and it doesn't count?

Surely the highest floor on a building where you can work/sleep/eat/whatever would be an easier universally agreed measure?

I recall the mother of all PR battles erupting here in Australia when Q1 claimed it was the "tallest apartment tower in the world" and then the Eureka people said "yes, that would be true if people could live and sleep on top of the stick".

Then there was talk Eureka would add its own stick but that wouldn't count because it wasn't part of the "original design"!

Talk abour making it confusing!

[SA BOY]

Richard Tallest will be Pentominium at 516m and its approved and in prep stage, wont top out before these 3 but will be taller eventually and will be U/C at some point whilst the others are also U/C.
Should be added

[CULWULLA]

^yes i was thinking of adding Pentominium but chicagos spire is actually more advanced with deep piling. I dont think pentomium is piliing yet? i know its excavation stage.
i might add it to see outcome?
once Chicagos spire gets above grd it will take off with ist spiralling construction.
The 3 in dubai will be completed next year so they are a definate.
taking bets for which one is completed first?
such amazing times in skyscraper era.

[malec]

No point adding any more tower. It'll be a year and a half at least before the pentominium is at the same stage

[AltinD]

But The Torch can be added.

You can see from this picture from today, how The Torch (foreground) is neck-in-neck with the Princess (background)

[CULWULLA]

yes, the 3 towers i have there are all potentially worlds next tallest apartment tower. this is what thread is about.
It will be really interesting to see them rises up at differing speeds.

All will be dwarfed by 610m Chicago spire in 2011 by 200m. Chicago Spire is the "burj Dubai" of apartment towers. really will set a new benchmark for great height for unit blocks. maybe a while before we get an 'all apartment" tower higher then 2000ft?

[Msradell]

Originally Posted by CULWULLA

if spire or feature on roof is intricate to design, then its counted in overall height.
Yes, there are categories for worlds tallest buildings, but not sure if there is for apartment towers yet? thus far, its top of structural top.
Ive found avergae floor for apartments are about 3meters. but seems in Dubai there are more generous with 3.6 up to 4m.
Alrind-ive added in Torch, i didnt realise it was that far along? be intresting to see what happens in the race. ill have to update every month.
ive also thrown in Eureka in melbourne as they say its the worlds tallest apartments because it has most floors and highest roof ect.

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/9...estresikv2.jpg

This is probably in the wrong thread but since the topic was brought up here, based on your description I'm not really sure that Freedom Tower should be considered 1776' tall. In the original design the spire was integral into the design, in the present design the "Spire" is nothing more than a fancy antenna and in actuality is just stuck on top of the building. The building really loses nothing if it is not built.

[CULWULLA]

well alot of guess work and hear say.
im trying to keep accurate from latest data/photos. thanks for members finding most recent on flickr.
getting very even. torch seems to be catching

[Dallasbrink]

go figure, Dubai, yawnnnnn

[Nielsie]

If we are talking about residential towers, than The Pentominium should be the highest. When completed it stand at the same height as taipei101.

[helghast]

higher actually by 8m

[CULWULLA]

i think the Chicago spire will finish before pentominium.

they asked santiago how high the other world tallest resis will be.
"about this high"

[nezzybaby]

Originally Posted by Northerly

If Q1 is "TALLER" than Eureka, then CN Tower is TALLLER than Taipei 101, no?

If I am 5'8" and stand next to a guy who is 5'10" and put a pencil on top of my head, am I TALLER than him?

How do these rules work?

To continue the analogy properly, you would be the tallest to top of pencil category, whereas he would win the tallest to hairline category.

There are at least four categories for tall buildings, Burj Dubai will make things easy by winning all of them. But saying something is cheating makes no sense at all, It isn't cheating to make a building have a pointy top rather than a flat one, it might just miss out in some of the categories.

If i was on stilts and holding on to a lampost to stay upright, i would be the tallest non freestanding out of the lot of us!

[koolbuddy]

@ above image ....Is chicago spire so high than the present U/C dubai resi... towers (torch, princess.....) ??

[AltinD]

Chicago Spire is at ground work at the moment (sub-structural work), if that is what you were asking.

[ZZ-II]

CS will definitely be finished before Pentominium

[CULWULLA]

may1 update. all very even now. only 3m dif
torch has caught up. princess towwer hasnt moved only its floor plates.
now 23marina is highest but i reckon torch will leave them behind from next week.

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[LeMoN-SK]

Looks like we are going to see exciting moments in this race, it is very close now.

[CULWULLA]

update
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