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Nakheel Tower

Coordinates:25°03′16″N55°07′53″E/ 25.05444°N 55.13139°E/25.05444; 55.13139
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Nakheel Tower
بُرْجُ ٱلنَّخِيلِ
Artist's rendering of Nakheel Tower at night.
Map
Former namesAl Burj
General information
StatusNever Completed (cancelled in 2009)
Typeresidential / hotel / office
LocationDubai,United Arab Emirates
Coordinates25°03′16″N55°07′53″E/ 25.05444°N 55.13139°E/25.05444; 55.13139
Construction started2008
CompletedTBD
OpeningTBD
Costover $38 billion
Height
Architectural1,000 m (3,281 ft)+
Technical details
Floor count200
Floor area900,000 m² / 9,687,519 ft²
Lifts/elevators156
Design and construction
Architect(s)Woods Bagot
DeveloperNakheel Properties
Structural engineerWSP Cantor Seinuk
References
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Nakheel Tower(Arabic:بُرْجُ ٱلنَّخِيلِ) was a plannedskyscraperon hold inDubai,United Arab Emiratesby developerNakheel.[2]The project was previously calledAl Burj(Arabic:ٱلْبُرْجُ"The Tower").[3]While the proposal changed over time, the tower was intended to be thetallest building in the world,surpassing the 828-metre (2,717 ft)Burj Khalifawhich was completed in 2010.

In January 2009, it was announced that the project was put on hold due to financial problems caused by theGreat Recession.[4][5]As a result of theDubai World 2009 debt standstill,Nakheel Group's financial problems increased considerably and the tower was cancelled in December 2009.[6]

Nakheel was in talks with several potential contractors, includingSouth Korea'sSamsung C&T(who also builtBurj Khalifa),JapaneseShimizu CorporationandAustralianGrocon.WSPwas Lead Consultant for the structure, heading a consortium that included LERA of New York and VDM of Australia, and working with architectsWoods Bagot.[7]

Location

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The tower was proposed in 2003 as the centrepiece ofPalm Jumeirah,one of the world's largest man-made islands. It was to be named "The Pinnacle" and rise from the centre of a canal on the trunk of the island. The height was to be 750 m (2,460 ft) and the building was to consist of 120 floors of luxury apartments. It was replaced by theTrump International Hotel and Towerand moved to theDubai Waterfront.Although ground leveling and land reclamation had begun on the Dubai Waterfront, construction of the tower never started because of the proximity to theAl Maktoum International Airport.[8]

The location was changed to a plot nearJumeirah Lake TowersandDubai Marina.The tower would have been the focal point of Nakheel's plans for theIbn Battuta Malldevelopment next toJumeirah Islandsand Jumeirah Lake Towers. It would have been the center of theNakheel Harbour and Tower complex,which would have included about 20 smaller towers of up to 90 stories, a marina, and part of theArabian Canal.The development would have been next to the revamped shopping mall.[9]

Design

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WithWoods Bagotreplacing Pei Partnership as the architectural partner,[10]the latest released design had named the development Nakheel Harbour and Tower.[11][12]Though in exterior appearance and function it would be a single tower over 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) tall, this even grander incarnation would have been "made up of four towers with four individual cores forming an approximate 100 meters in diameter."[13]Nakheel also claimed on their engineering page that the towers would be joined by four-level, full diameter sky bridges at approximately every twenty-five floors. The sky bridges would act to tie the buildings together structurally as well as to provide each part of the building with its own village centre in the sky. It is the four codependent foundations that would have provided the necessary structural support for such a great relative height increase over existing supertalls. The design included a distinctive crescent-shaped podium encircling the base of the tower.[14]

Nakheel Tower shape

The tower would have been serviced by 156 lifts at sufficient speeds and capacities to allow for travel from the ground floor to the observation deck in four minutes.[13]

Height

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Projections of Nakheel Tower's final height varied widely. Nakheel was believed to be engaging in a strategy of secrecy similar to that employed byEmaarwith Burj Khalifa. According to officials atNakheel,the tower was originally designed to be at least 700 m (2,300 ft) tall and have more than 160 floors,[citation needed]although an early render showed the tower with more than 200 floors.[citation needed]Companies involved in the project reported an initial height expectation of 1,600 m (5,200 ft) which was later reduced to 1,200 m (3,900 ft).[15]In July, 2007, Nakheel CEO Chris O'Donnell was reported to have said that "height isn't everything" and suggested that Al Burj might not be any taller than the Burj Khalifa, which is 828 m (2,717 ft).[16]Yet only a week later, Nakheel reaffirmed that the tower would be taller than 1 kilometer.[10]A report on 20 June 2008 claimed that the tower was planned to be 1,500 metres (4,921 ft) tall.[9]This would not only surpass the Burj Khalifa, but it would also surpass the delayedJeddah Towerin Saudi Arabia, which was intended to rise slightly over a kilometer.

Name

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During the history of the project, it was known by three different names: Al Burj, Tall Tower, and Nakheel Tower. Initially named Al Burj, the project was renamed Tall Tower for a few months, until being changed to Nakheel Tower.

See also

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References

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  1. ^"Nakheel Tower – The Skyscraper Center".www.skyscrapercenter.com.Retrieved2020-11-13.
  2. ^Mitcheson-Low, Mark; O'Brien, Dennis (2009)."Nakheel Tower – The Vertical City".CTBUH Journal.2(2).Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat:16–24.JSTOR24192124.
  3. ^Baldwin, Derek (6 October 2008)."Nakheel Tower to eclipse Burj Dubai".Gulf News.Retrieved28 April2018.
  4. ^Deshayes, Catherine (February 6, 2009)."£53 billion on hold".Archived fromthe originalon 2009-03-09.Retrieved2009-02-26.
  5. ^Sambidge, Andy (14 January 2009)."Work on Nakheel Tower 'stopped for 12 months'".Arabian Business.Archived fromthe originalon 20 February 2009.Retrieved14 January2009.
  6. ^"Palmeilanden Dubai dreigen te zinken"[Dubai Palm Islands threaten to sink].De Tijd(in Dutch). 9 December 2009.Retrieved10 December2009.
  7. ^Latham, Rob (24 October 2008)."WSP designs structure for the world's tallest tower"(Press release). Archived fromthe originalon 2008-10-28.
  8. ^"DUBAI: Al Burj".Archived fromthe originalon 2011-05-22.Retrieved2007-11-15.
  9. ^ab"MEED – Nakheel increases height of Tall Tower to 1.4 kilometres".Emap.Archived fromthe originalon 2008-06-26.Retrieved2008-06-25.
  10. ^ab"Nakheel designs 1km-high tower".Retrieved2007-08-10.
  11. ^"Nakheel Harbour and Tower".meed.com.Archived fromthe originalon 2009-04-11.Retrieved2018-04-28.
  12. ^"Nakheel plans to build world's tallest tower".meed.com.Archived fromthe originalon 2008-12-10.Retrieved2018-04-28.
  13. ^ab"Nakheel Harbour & Tower Engineering Page".nakheelharbour.com.Archived fromthe originalon 2008-10-09.
  14. ^"ISLAMIC INGENUITY INSPIRES DUBAI'S CAPITAL".www.nakheel.com.October 5, 2008. Archived fromthe originalon October 13, 2008.
  15. ^"Waterfront Tower to be World's Tallest Landmark".Retrieved2007-03-27.
  16. ^"Al Burj to shrink?".July 26, 2007. Archived fromthe originalon February 8, 2008.Retrieved2007-08-02.
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