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The real heyday of the skyscraper age (buildings more than 150 meters tall) was the late 1920s and early 1930s: The Empire State was completed in 1931, and The Chrysler Building in 1930, just after the crash, and at the outset of The Great Depression. Neither building was surpassed until the completion of The World Trade Center in 1970. The 1970s was the worst decade for stocks since the 1930s.
Between 2001 and 2012 almost as many skyscrapers will be built as in the whole of the 20th century.
Dubai, from 2 skyscrapers in 1999 to 90 in 2012. Increase 4,400%
Miami, from 5 skyscrapers in 1999 to 71 in 2012. Increase 1,320%
Las Vegas, from 2 skyscrapers in 1999 to 27 in 2012. Increase 1,250%
London, from 2 skyscrapers in 1999 to 24 in 2012. Increase 1,100%
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Construction of the Russia Tower officially halted:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/21/russia.tower/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
| Quote: | | The credit crisis meant there was no possibility of paying for the Norman Foster-designed 600-meter (1,968-foot) Russia Tower and no demand from tenants to fill it, Shalva Chigirinsky, head of developer Russian Land, was quoted as saying. |
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Forgot to mention this earlier:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_Tower
| Quote: | | The Russia Tower (Russian: Башня Россия; Bashnya Rossiya) is a supertall skyscraper currently under construction[1] in the Moscow International Business Centre of Moscow, Russia. Construction began in September, 2007, and is planned to be completed in 2012. Upon reaching its final height of 612.2 m (2,009 ft.), it will be the fifth tallest building in the world.. Additionally, it will be the tallest building in the world with a natural ventilation system. |
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The "Skyscraper Index" strikes again - this time on Wachovia:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122273669908488683.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yahoo
| Quote: | Construction workers were still hammering away Monday at the site of a downtown skyscraper that, as of last week, was supposed to house the new headquarters of Wachovia Corp.
"I guess it'll have to have a new name now," said Todd Anderson, a construction worker, as he glanced up at the unfinished building. It will eventually rise 48 stories, making it the second-tallest tower in the area.
The sale of Wachovia bank to Citigroup Inc. has thrown this city -- obsessively proud of its status as the nation's second-leading banking center behind New York City. |
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Yes, it's all there in London's "City." Oil/Financial/Global.... the FTSE having so little to do with British growth.
| Quote: | | ....Further proof of property's fast-changing fortunes: when the Wall Street crash wiped out demand for space in a newly built Empire State Building in the '30s, locals dubbed the iconic skyscraper the "Empty State Building." London developers can be forgiven for aiming high. |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject: Construction of "The Cheesegrater" has been postpo |
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This would have been the tallest building in London, but its completion date has been pushed back a year due to losses in the financial sector and abundance of office space.
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1833243,00.html |
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Thanks rffrydr, for the excellent link. A couple of interesting paragraphs stood out from my standpoint. This looks like a deflationary force in the architectural world to me:
| Quote: | And therein lies a problem, for even when it is generated by computer, a 2-D line drawing is just that: a bunch of lines. “There’s no structure that tells you that this line is a wall, stair or window,” says Chuck Eastman, a professor of architecture and computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. “If you changed a window you would have to rebuild the wall around it to make it bigger or smaller.” Given that even a small building can require thousands of drawings, and producing drawings traditionally accounts for a big chunk of an architect’s fee, making changes can be a costly and time-consuming business. “If you adjust the shape of a building late in the game, you would have a lot of drawing to do,” says Mr Burger. Moreover, such drawings give no indication of the cost of construction. Instead, architects have to keep a schedule of materials that they continually update as the design progresses. Alter the design, and you also have to alter the entire schedule.
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For Dr Eastman, who has seen many fellow BIM advocates retire or die before the technology was adopted, the transformation is hugely rewarding. And there appears to be no going back. “In ten years’ time there will be no drawings,” he says, “and ‘back to the drawing board’ will just become an historic phrase.” |
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Update on the Chicago Spire:
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/overseas/article2588576.ece
| Quote: | | There is no shortage of competitors. Chicago has more than 13,000 apartments due for completion by 2010 – and those in the downtown area alone. Two part-residential buildings tower – in prestige terms – above the others: The Trump International Hotel and Tower will stand at 1,362ft and consists of 486 studios, one, two and three-bedroom apartments and two, four and five-bedroom penthouses with a five-star hotel. The Waterview Tower and Shangri La Hotel, a 90-storey, 1,047ft tower, will comprise 233 luxury flats and penthouses, and 200 hotel apartments at the five-star hotel. Both are under construction and due for completion in 2009, although the Waterview Tower has not yet managed to secure all funding for the build and Trump Tower had more than 200 apartments unsold in June – the most recent available figures – despite a completion date of 2009. Meanwhile, the Spire is located on a two-acre site where the Chicago River meets Lake Michigan. The 150-storey building will consist of 1,193 apartments – each with 10ft ceilings and ranging in size from 534 sq ft studios to four-bedroom apartments and 10,293 sq ft penthouses. Those on the 50th floor or above have uninterrupted views. A spa, restaurant and pool for the exclusive use of residents will be coupled with a cigar room, a library and a private cinema, but a one-acre landscaped plaza on the riverside will be open to the public. The developer has agreed a makeover of DuSable Park, a public park owned by the Chicago Park District in honour of Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, the first nonNative American settler of the city. |
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Oops, I spoke too soon. This was just confirmed earlier today. Going forward, however, construction in Dubai will not be smooth-sailing, as many Indian construction workers are now being lured back to India with promises of better-paying jobs and benefits, etc.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22112510-1702,00.html
| Quote: | | Burj Dubai, or Dubai Tower, now surpasses Taiwan's Taipei 101 which is 508m tall, and has 141 storeys, more than any other building in the world, Emaar Properties said. |
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This supertall skyscraper is set to break ground later this year and is scheduled to be completed sometime in 2011. Once it is done, it should be the second tallest building in the US, ranking behind the Chicago Spire and ahead of the Freedom Tower:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Las_Vegas |
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