Beijing Central Business District or the Beijing CBD is Beijing’s core business borough spread over a total area of 4 square kilometres in the eastern urban area of Beijing city.
Planned since 1993 and scheduled to be completed this year (before the Olympics), it is currently residing 3000 businesses constituting, 500 multinationals, 570 foreign representative branch offices, 150 international financial corporations & 200 intermediary service companies.
Beijing CBD comprises of over 10 million square metres of constructed real estate; 50% of which is office space, 25% apartments and the remainder 25% commercial and service oriented.
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This is just a quick update on the massive Burj Dubai development, showing a happy band of construction workers as they reached the world record height of 601 meters - No champagne, we see - can’t imagine why.
As the tower has continued to grow, it is becoming the dominant landmark on the Dubai skyline, this is a selection of photos taken at the end of February - beginning of March. They are taken from a variety of positions around the city and already the major feature is the Burj Dubai skyscraper.
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Hardly do we get this confused about a project. The project in question is The Landmark in Abu Dhabi (UAE), which apparently, belongs to Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (under Abu Dhabi’s Department of the President Affairs).
The Pelli Clarke Pelli designed 80+ storey building would be Abu Dhabi’s tallest spanning over 1,100 feet (335.28m).
Apart from the main contractors changing from Bauer Intl to Al Habtoor engineering, we have not been able to get our hands on rendered images of its side or back but can confirm (from the pictures below) that contruction has begun & gone above ground level already.
If you would like to track this project, we suggest you check out Al Habtoor Engineering’s official website.
The Team
Here is the team:
Construction photos:
Brookfield Properties’ Hudson Yards proposal in New York “aims to bring New York into the 21st Century.”
The MTA, in co-operation with the State and City of new York, issued a request for Proposals to regenerate and rejuvenate the active rail yards on Manhattan’s far west side. Brookfield’s plans attempt to integrate Hudson Yards into the city proper whilst creating what they feel will be New York’s next great neighborhood.
The ambitious plans include Galleries, cafés, a soaring gateway, and rolling meadows. Also included is a cultural center with plans for public performances.
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The Burj al Alam (which means “World Tower” in English) would be a 108 storey, 501m skyscraper in the Business Bay area of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Burl al Alam would constitute of 74 floors of office space, a retail area at the base, and a high-end hotel and serviced apartments in the top 27 floors. The plan for the hotel section is to make is the world’s highest set of hotel rooms which would be over 400m high. The crown of the building which would be the final 6-storeys would have a Turkish bath, sky garden, and other club facilities. Expected completion date is 2010.
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Construction on The Trump Soho Hotel-Condo was stopped last week after a fatal accident. A wooden scaffold workers were standing on to set concrete collapsed, causing a worker to fall 42 floors to his death, while another was lucky enough to be caught by the safety netting.
The company in charge of construction is Bovis Lend Lease, the project management arm of British building firm Bovis. This is not the first time Bovis have run into difficulties with accusations that the building is in fact illegal and should never have got planning permission in the first place. They have also run foul of the NY building code in the past on this site, and a stop work order was immediately issued along with at least four violations including:
- Failure to safeguard the public and property.
- Failure to maintain adequate housekeeping.
- Failure to provide a fire escape hatch.
- Failure to provide adequate fire extinguishers.
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People all around the world have a fascination with the building construction process. Just visit almost any new building site and there will invariably be groups of people (usually men, it must be said) watching the progress of a particular building.
This blog is dedicated to that same fascination. We watch construction projects globally.
Another recent phenomonon since the advent of readily available digital video cameras, is the appearance of time lapse video watching the construction progress. This is a selection of time lapse videos taken from YouTube showing the development of a variety of buildings, mostly skyscrapers. The bigger they are, the stronger the fascination. the Japanese seem to be leading the world in this at the moment and some of these videos were started many years ago but it is spreading.
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