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Post by Nevada Hoya on Jan 4, 2010 19:41:16 GMT -5
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DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jan 4, 2010 20:41:51 GMT -5
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MassHoya
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Post by MassHoya on Jan 4, 2010 21:07:29 GMT -5
I thought Dubai was in financial trouble. Where did they get the money for this?
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Post by The Stig on Jan 4, 2010 21:46:38 GMT -5
I thought Dubai was in financial trouble. Where did they get the money for this? They started building it during the boom. By the time the trouble hit, the building was pretty much done. |
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Post by Bando on Jan 5, 2010 2:07:47 GMT -5
I thought Dubai was in financial trouble. Where did they get the money for this? Abu Dhabi bailed them out, so the tower was renamed after that emir rather than "Burj Dubai", which it had been called up to now. |
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Post by redskins12820 on Jan 5, 2010 2:22:35 GMT -5
I just watched man on wire tonight...can't even imagine what looking down from this building is like
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Post by tashoya on Jan 5, 2010 8:33:37 GMT -5
redskins... no clue but I bet they sell diapers in the 1st floor lobby. Sounds like a sweet base jumping spot.
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Post by MassHoya on Jan 5, 2010 11:59:25 GMT -5
Thanks for the background info. I would not want the window cleaning contract. There must be some pretty good wind that high up.
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DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jan 5, 2010 15:41:31 GMT -5
Here's an amazing stat: New York has four buildings over 1,000 feet (Empire State, Bank Of America Tower, Chrysler Building, NY Times Tower), with one more on the way by 2013 (1 WTC).
Dubai already has 11 such buildings, and 18 more on the way by 2013. Incredible.
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Post by thebin on Jan 5, 2010 17:35:56 GMT -5
Here's an amazing stat: New York has four buildings over 1,000 feet (Empire State, Bank Of America Tower, Chrysler Building, NY Times Tower), with one more on the way by 2013 (1 WTC). Dubai already has 11 such buildings, and 18 more on the way by 2013. Incredible. What's really incredible about that is unlike in Manhattan, there is absolutely no economic rationale to build up in the middle of the desert. |
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tashoya
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Post by tashoya on Jan 5, 2010 20:18:11 GMT -5
Here's an amazing stat: New York has four buildings over 1,000 feet (Empire State, Bank Of America Tower, Chrysler Building, NY Times Tower), with one more on the way by 2013 (1 WTC). Dubai already has 11 such buildings, and 18 more on the way by 2013. Incredible. What's really incredible about that is unlike in Manhattan, there is absolutely no economic rationale to build up in the middle of the desert. Ahh.... the industriousness of the Indians. The builders are mostly from the Indian subcontinent no? And what's the over-under on WTC 1 being done by 2013? |
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Post by The Stig on Jan 5, 2010 22:47:18 GMT -5
What's really incredible about that is unlike in Manhattan, there is absolutely no economic rationale to build up in the middle of the desert. Ahh.... the industriousness of the Indians. The builders are mostly from the Indian subcontinent no? And what's the over-under on WTC 1 being done by 2013? Yep, most of the workers are Bangladeshi, I think. The UAE is a strange place. The Emiratis basically do no work - they all have cushy, well-paid government-funded jobs that allow them to sit in air conditioned offices for a few hours a day and collect a healthy paycheck. The people who do the real work are the South Asians who get shipped in on the countless flights from the subcontinent. They only work there for a short period, get paid horribly small salaries, work in really unsafe conditions in the scorching desert, and have zero opportunity for social advancement in the UAE. But they still come and provide the UAE with endless labor, because that's a heck of a lot more opportunity than they have in Bangladesh, aka God's Practical Joke. |
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Post by tashoya on Jan 5, 2010 23:20:01 GMT -5
Ahh.... the industriousness of the Indians. The builders are mostly from the Indian subcontinent no? And what's the over-under on WTC 1 being done by 2013? Yep, most of the workers are Bangladeshi, I think. The UAE is a strange place. The Emiratis basically do no work - they all have cushy, well-paid government-funded jobs that allow them to sit in air conditioned offices for a few hours a day and collect a healthy paycheck. The people who do the real work are the South Asians who get shipped in on the countless flights from the subcontinent. They only work there for a short period, get paid horribly small salaries, work in really unsafe conditions in the scorching desert, and have zero opportunity for social advancement in the UAE. But they still come and provide the UAE with endless labor, because that's a heck of a lot more opportunity than they have in Bangladesh, aka God's Practical Joke. I think I've heard of that in other places.... |
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It is impressive though.
It is impressive though.
