Emaar Properties awards Downtown Dubai global advertising account to StrawberryFrog
The US$20 billion Downtown Dubai is the world's newest and most all-encompassing urban development. Described as the 'new heart of Dubai,' this 500-acre development is anchored by Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, and also features The Dubai Mall, the world's largest shopping and entertainment destination.
LM grad has top job at the World Trade Center tower
Lewis joined Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) LLP in 1986, beginning his career at the New York City firm as a designer, and is today a director. The 75-year-old firm is known for designing many of the world’s tallest and most complex structures including the recently completed 160-floor Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
In Saudi Arabia, Progress on “World’s Tallest Building”
Plans are moving forward on Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the latest contender for the mantle of “world’s tallest building.” Part of the 23-million-square-meter project known as Kingdom City, the tower is slotted for 1001 meters, 173 meters taller than Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the current record holder, which opened earlier this year.
Building on Saudi hopes
A 60,000-seater stadium near Jeddah, a new airport in Medina and a tower that could eclipse Dubai’s Burj Khalifa as the tallest in the world are just some of the projects in Saudi Arabia that have caught the eye of international construction companies.
Uplifting maintenance
In Dubai on 11 January, a tour to the At The Top observation deck of Burj Khalifa turned into a nightmare for 15 visitors when they became stuck between floors in a high-speed lift, and had to be rescued via a service lift. Apparently the problem was only a ‘stall’, and hence not a major problem, but neither Burj Khalifa nor lift supplier Otis has issued any statement to date about the incident.
At the top
Otis GM Sebi Joseph talks about the company's long involvement in the region, from 1967 in Abu Dhabi, culminating with the iconic Burj Khalifa. Otis Elevator Company is represented directly in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Cambodia aims high with skyscraper
If the project goes ahead, it would top the Taipei 101 Tower, the Shanghai World Financial Centre and Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers – the world's three tallest buildings after the 828m Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
‘Tallest tower’ deal set for Eid
Six Construct, a Belgian company that helped to build the Burj Khalifa, and its Saudi partner, El Seif Engineering Contracting, are vying for the project against Australia’s Multiplex Construction and Saudi BinLadin Group, one of the biggest construction companies in the region
SOM Chicago opens new tower, Beijing’s tallest
With the Burj Khalifa and Chicago's Trump Tower, the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has had quite a supertall skyscraper run lately. And guess what? The run ain't done. SOM just opened another supertall, this one called the China World Trade Center Tower. It's Beijing's tallest building.
In the land of skyscrapers, they keep the pace of life
“The best compliments people can have is they don’t notice them or complain about them,” said Jim Fortune, a consultant who helped design Dubai’s most popular lift, a 124-storey system that takes visitors to the observation deck of the Burj Khalifa.Around midnight every night hundreds of lift technicians like Mr D’Mello fan out across Dubai, pushing buttons and checking motors to make sure the machines can handle another month of ups and downs.
