Tema: Dubai (EAU): One Park Avenue (JG) ~600 m, 125 pl (Adrian Smith)

One Park Avenue


Arquitecto: Adrian Smith y Gordon Gill

El último monstruo presentado en el Cityscape de Dubai


De malec:

Stunning projects to redefine skyline
By Saifur Rahman, Business Editor
Published: May 04, 2008, 00:12


Dubai: Dubai is set to re-define its skyline with a number of supertowers that will rise more than 100 floors and 600 metres, with a combined estimated value of Dh25 billion ($7 billion).

The projects, to be announced later this year, will be part of a new master-planned development that will raise Dubai's profile on urban development and masterplanning.

Dubai Government has already approved the projects, currently titled AC Towers, EP Site 07, 09 and 15. Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, the projects are expected to be completed in five years.

Smith, the lead architect, also designed the Burj Dubai - currently the world's tallest tower at 160 floors.

"Dubai has already become the host to the highest number of supertowers in the world," Smith said.

"We are going to add a few more to the city's growing skyline. Out of the 13 supertowers that are being designed by us, five of them will be located in the UAE and one in Qatar."

His company has already signed with the "yet to be announced developer" to build these towers, which are unique in their own ways and will be more energy efficient.

Eco-friendliness, energy efficiency, sustainability and intelligent building systems are key to the strength of these towers, designed to stand out among the hundreds of towers that are being developed.

Smith said the new technology that he plans to employ on the buildings will pull air from the top floors, that are about 10 degree cooler, and spray them at the lower levels where temperature is higher.

"This is a unique technique never employed in supertowers. Dubai will be the first city in the world to have them implemented," he said.

"The new buildings that we have designed for Dubai can save energy by 40 to 60 per cent. We can get to '0' level in energy consumption.

"We can, in fact, design buildings that can create energy for the city. Instead of consuming energy, these buildings can actually contribute energy to the city."



Among the three EP projects, EP 07 will rise 125 floors and reflect Dubai's pearl trading and farming heritage. The mixed-use project will be approximately 600 metres high and will have a built-up area of 350,000 square metres.

"We have designed them to reflect on Dubai's rich heritage - developed especially for Dubai. It is covered by ribbons of steel that helps it to utilise the solar energy and make it sustainable," Smith said.

"The steel ribbon helps save energy. Besides, the buildings have been designed to withstand wind pressure and manage the pressure more efficiently. At peak, it will tilt less than 1.25 metres either way."





EP 07 Tower - 125 plantas









De smussuw:

De Stephan23:

Pero bueno, jejeje, esto es ya una locura... pero una locura maravillosa. Que no decaiga...
Rep para Lau, por toda esta borrachera de rascas.

Creo haber visto de esto algo ya...y bueno la torre y la zona entera me gusta...

De DennisS:











De andisart:

Lo cierto es que es una pasada...

Le han dado una buena vuelta de tuerca a los diseños en Dubai. Ya no son tan horteras. Y aunque siguen siendo extravagantes, por lo menos tienen más gusto.

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Impresionante.

Si, es impresoinante, es algo que hace 5 años nunca hubiera imaginado que se creara más allá de las películas de ciencia ficción.

Me iré a buscar trabajo a Dubai... en unos años

La torre es preciosa... y me gusta mucho las 6 torres unidas por el arco, que además no parecen muy desproporcionadas por la altura.

Yo no quiero hablar muy alto porque aquí hay gente que le sienta mal, pero me recuerda más que sospechosamente a las torres de Calatrava de Valencia. Afortunadamente, no hay la sensualidad dispersa del original, ésta es más un aquí te pillo aquí te mato. Un tanto gratuitamente violenta.