Burj Khalifa

[Jutlander79 8]

Phhhheeww. I thought you had given up because of redering problems

The truth is that have folowed this project for a time (yes u can call me for a lurker

And what I can say this look very promising ....man u really got talent. Can't wait to se the building on STEX hopfully u are faster than the arabian arabian Contractors/builders on the real one.

 

Here u got some bunnies to cher u up and don't give up ....nothing is impossible.

 

keep up with the progress and work!

This one will be the crown jewel in the hart of my commercial centre.

 

 

 

[AndisArt 2,067]

@MayorTim: So tell us, is it your eye on the pic?

@madawac: Thank you :-)  And yes, they have such lovely buidlings there. I'll see if I can post a pic of a model of the future Dubai downtown. It is AMAZING!!!  And please, don't be shy to post pics here :-) And by the way: The eye in the avatar is my eye. I made it when I played with Photoshop and made a profil pic with a phrase. That's about the story

 

@Jutlander79: Thanks alot for your comment :-) nothing is impossible - THAT is the attitude I like!  I'm happy to built the crown jewel for your city   And by the way:  Rendering hasn't even begun, lol.

 

 

By the way :

 

We are counting:  1

 

I finished all parts for the major highrise! Yiepieh!

Now I have to make exact plans of the actual stacking process.

I will have to split the whole thing in several parts since otherwise the BAT would collapse. Good thing I can save select and work on an area in a new file and then merge it back and it will be at the exact same position as before.

 

On this pic there is the last unit missing that I just completed. Still I wanna share with you the base of the High Rise to the SKY!

 

E N J OY ,  M Y   F E L L O W S!

 

[Tunafish 48]

Hoy Sthi!

 

Youre amazing dude! Very Nice

[NintendoMaster128 30]

Let's just say I visited the restroom before I saw this picture...

[jacqulina 162]

amazing shape

[jp walker 1]

that is so sick i cant wait to plop this thing [:0][:0]

does the shape of the building have anythign to do with the culture or religion in UAE? like petronas towers shape is in malaysia

[Fox 1,444]

Wow... that looks so awesome. I reakon you should make a roof for that and release that part as a mall...lol.. while we wait for the big one.  Truely amazing, I love it so far.

 

As you can see ... they are well on their way. They must some fountaions to hold a building so heavy.

 

Birdseye view...

 

Got another picture too... but i'll need to resize them a little as they are fairly huge.

 

Keep up the great work though.

 

[fstpaced 37]

Where have you been (my super-scraper freind) ???   I've been wondering what happened to ya... I kinda felt everyone else has, about you running into issues with model.....  I didn't give up though!!!  Was checking this thread constantly...  Which you should know from when you goto my thread on the 7 south.. I have those times where it will be serveral days with no updates myself..... 

First thing i have to say is : This is what I call TOP-SHELF!!!!!!!!!

The progress you have made so far, is very awsome!!!!!!!!  Now i see why you vannished for a few days..  I will tell ya now, that when this is complete, It will one of the greatest BAT'S posted in simtropolis In a long time!!!!!!!!!!   Keep it andisart, and don't hide so long next time... 

As for my avatar:  I get into things of that nature.. Also this was my first GIF i did in photoshopCS......

[Fox 1,444]

Here are those other pictures I have.. kinda interesting... maybe helpful....

 

 

[madawac 48]

W0WoW0WOW0WoW0W. I just got up and don't need a cup of coffee anymore(what means, that the pic is so AMAZING that I totally woke up now (and that means much[:0]))

Date: 3/29/2005 2:38:42 PM
Author: Fox

I reakon you should make a roof for that and release that part as a mall...lol.. while we wait for the big one.

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Great idea There's a big lack of modern stile malls and it would be so suitable
So, if you decide to make a mall as prerelease for the Burj Dubai, I would be honored may providing you some moddelling help oder anything

And: If may your computer gets very slow on some parts oder something doesn't work how you want it to, don't give up. It's nerving but good to train patience

And maybe nothing is interessted in the story of my ava, but I will tell you
It's nothing special, just my favourite Berlin building (yes I'm from Berlin), the Kaiser Wilhelm Ged

[Maranello575 5]

Some mall it would be!Great job andisart and just don't stop counting backwards

[MayorTim 16]

If I didn't care about this project as much as I do, I would just say that it looks great and that it is perfect right now.

While I do think it looks great - in fact it looks UBER great, there is one thing nagging at me. Where the *** is the door?

Are you planning to build a base like the one in Fox's post, or are you going to leave it like this? If you leave it like this, please add several large doors!

[mcarch 15]

I would have to agree.  There needs to be some doors.

[AndisArt 2,067]

Thanks for all your comments.

Date: 3/30/2005 1:57:14 AM
Author: NintendoMaster128
Let's just say I visited the restroom before I saw this picture...

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Nintendowmaster, what do you mean with that?

@jp walker: Yes, the shape indeed has as story: It is based on a desert flower that is native in Dubai. If you look from the top it is like the three sidewings are the petals.

@fox: Thanks for the pics, I know them. Dunno bout the mall... Wanna get finished with the big one. So much work ahead...

@fstpaced: thanks alot :-) Great work with your avatar. Didn't know you can do gifs in photoshop.

@madawac: thanks :-) I won't give up ;-) Everybody's so supportive here, makes it so much more fun! Are you going the rebuilt the Gedaechtniskirche like it used to be before it was damaged?

MayorTim & mcarch and everybody: Don't worry, the shown base is only of the main tower, not the base. I chose to seperate the base because I wann make it very detailed and it will probably be tough to render it. The base is another 32 meters (or 100 feet) high. The lot itself will be another story. I don't know yet how big and detailed I will make it.

By the way:
Planning for the High Rise is concluded. We are through counting. HIGHRISING IS STARTING!

Now I announced a pic of the future Dubai Downtown, here it is:

[ZeramZeram 2]

Neeeee! NEEEEE! I can't wait for this building.

Have you given any thought to the stats for the final structure? Given the nature of the habitation inside, it is unlikely that the real building will house even 5,000 people, despite its 189 floors. That would make the building vey easy to integrate into a normal high density city, but would be low by SC4 standards for a building of its size.

 

ON THE OTHER HAND... if it were to have an inflated population (like 10 or more thousand) would it be able to interact well with buildings like Petronas or the WTC that are having problems staying inhabited in Sim Cities? This might be interesting to test.

 

EDIT: Egad, actually there are only 700 apartments. The rest is commercial (although the apartments make up the bulk of the tower).

[fstpaced 37]

hey andi, ya better put your hardhat and parachute on !! ( it's a long way down )  LOL, just joking... I was wondering about the mall myself, but i didn't realize it was that much more heighth added to it....  definetly would make rendering issues huh??

  I think what nintendomaster ment, was that it's a good thing he went to restroom first... otherwise he might not had made it

I don't know about the past versions of photoshop, but you can in CS... ( make gifs )

 Keep it up bro! hope to see the first update on the upward construction soon!!!

[madawac 48]

Wow, the pic of Dubai's downtwon is simply stunning, it looks so... futuristc
And this pic I think, you can get a good idea of the dimension the Burj Dubai has, 'cause you got the other buildings arround to compare.
Something about Dubai nerves me:
There are so many similar skyscrapers, that makes it sometimes a bit boring to look at new planned building complexes in Dubai

Actually I wanted to rebuild the pre-war Ged

[MayorTim 16]

Date: 3/31/2005 5:44:32 AM
Author: madawac
Something about Dubai nerves me:

There are so many similar skyscrapers, that makes it sometimes a bit boring to look at new planned building complexes in Dubai

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I think they are similar because there aren't actually and planned buildings there yet. That is just what they expect, so there aren't any detailed buildings in that model.

[Dupontfan24 0]

How did you make this building if the final height and floor number hasn't been decided yet? Also will you include the radio tower on top that will move up and down to confuse people about the actual height(eventhough this can't be done in Simcity). I read that the pilings that hold the foundation go 160 feet into bedrock. Those 700 apartments sold in less than eight hours [:0]

[NintendoMaster128 30]

I did a little research on that Under Construction photo, it looked too framiliar.  I then took a look through a book of skyscrapers I have, which I have about 50 of them, and I found the exact photo in my building archives of the CN Tower under construction.  Where is it you found that photo?  Becuase someone is trying to pass it off as something it really isn't.

[AndisArt 2,067]

@Nintendomaster, I don't have any clue what you're talking about... Do you refer to the pic that Fox posted of the construction site of the real Burj? I tell you: it is real! I've seen a lot of pic of the real Burj construction site from different people.

@ZeramZeram: I don't think 5000 people is enough for the building. It's double high than World Trade Center and one World Trade Center Tower hosted 25000 people. What do you mean with that: ON THE OTHER HAND... if it were to have an inflated population (like 10 or more thousand) would it be able to interact well with buildings like Petronas or the WTC that are having problems staying inhabited in Sim Cities? This might be interesting to test.

@fstpaced: Do you mean the base? The base isn't the mall. The Dubai Mall is giant and will be constructed next to the Tower. And thanks for letting me know what Nintendomaster meant ;-)

@Dupontfan24: I had to decide the height of my tower. Since I guess that in the time of the construction of the tower there will be another project anounneced that exceeds the height of 705 meters (official minimum heiht of the Burj) and after that the Burj will be built even higher to rule again, I decided to make it about 800 meters in game. I havn't heard or seen anything about a radio tower. I will stick with the official renderings.

[your_adress_here 11]

Whoa!!! Dubai is gonna have one kick-ass downtown!

Keep up the good work man!

[ZeramZeram 2]

@Nintendomaster: There are lots of sites hosting various pictures like that of the construction site... it would be shocking if they are fake considering some of them are corporate sites!

@Andisart: If you are making the building residential, and want it to resemble the real building, then how many people do you think would live in 700 apartments? 50,000?! Must be big apartments! (this is in no way to be construed as me stating I think it should be realistic necessarily... just pointing out that the building will probably only have 2,000 or so inhabitants).

 

Remember, just one of the WTC towers had more square feet than both the Petronas Towers. They had a LOT of people in one space.

[jp walker 1]

i agree that Dubai future downtown is someting from an alien city it looks so cool! one question, anybody know what that sphere-structure is in the middle?

[Lord_Bertrum 3]

I think it's a mosque.

[Beachbum251 0]

wow that is crazy. i was just lookin at an ad in the latest architectural digest and went to there site yesterday. and now you guys have been making it on here! ive heard more about Dubai in the last three days than ive ever heard about it in my entire life. crazy. btw you guys are doing an amazing job on it, looks great. keep it up!

[AndisArt 2,067]

Quick update before I go to bed :-)

Unintended coolness: Structures appearing in the process:

 

First high Rise update:

[Lord_Bertrum 3]

How many sections similar to this do you plan to cobble together?

[fstpaced 37]

awsome update andi!!!!

 Keep it coming!!! It's all down hill from here...  I feel like i'm watching a suspense movie got me on the edge of my chair now

[mcarch 15]

*Gulp*  Oops, I think I just swallowed my gum... Heh, oh well, oh wait, It fell out