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The Burj Khalifa, currently the tallest tower  in the world, with 2716.5-feet of aluminum and steel, and its 26,000 hand-cut glass panels. The Burj Khalifa blows away the next-nearest skyscraper, which is Taiwan's 1670-foot Taipei 101, and the building has even surpassed ultra-tall, ground-cable-supported radio antennas.  Architects' vertical leapfrogging, however, isn't likely to stop at the Burj Khalifa. While the tower will be a tough one to beat, it is likely to remain at the pinnacle for only about another half-dozen years. Developers around the world have proposed numerous new skyscrapers. Some projects have leapt off the drawing boards, though plans for many record-breaking towers have been scuttled because of the global economic spasms of the past couple years. (The original name of the Burj Khalifa, the Burj Dubai, was changed at the last minute to recognize United Arab Emirates president Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, who as emir of Abu Dhabi gave struggling...

World's Tallest Structure  - Concept Stage The  X-Seed 4000  is the tallest building ever fully envisioned, meaning that the designs for construction have been completed. The idea was initially created and developed by Peter Neville. Its proposed 4 km (2.5 mi) height, 6 km (3.7 mi) wide sea-base, and 800 floor capacity could accommodate five hundred thousand to one million inhabitants. It was designed for Tokyo, Japan by the Taisei Corporation in 1995  as a futuristic environment combining ultra-modern living and interaction with nature. The X-Seed 4000 "is never meant to be built," says Georges Binder, managing director of Buildings & Data, a firm which compiles data banks on buildings worldwide. "The purpose of the plan was to earn some recognition for the firm, and it worked." Unlike conventional skyscrapers, the X-Seed 4000 would be required to actively protect its occupants from considerable ai...

Earthquake Births New Island Pictures On September 24, 2013, a major  strike-slip earthquake  rattled western Pakistan, killing at least 350 people and leaving more than 100,000 homeless. The 7.7 magnitude quake struck the Baluchistan province of northwestern Pakistan. Amidst the destruction, a new island was created offshore in the Paddi Zirr (West Bay) near Gwadar, Pakistan. NASA's Earth Observatory has released before and after satellite images that clearly show the birth of the island. Here's an image taken from the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite taken on Sept'26 & old Pic taken on Sept'17

List of Few Construction, Real Estate, Developers, Consultants, Project Management companies in Bangalore Sl.No Company name Role 1  Abode Properties Pvt. Ltd. developer 2  Adarsh Developers developer 3  Aisshwarya Group developer 4  Akkayya Consultants - ACS Developers developer 5  Alpine Housing Development Corporation Ltd. developer 6  AN Prakash CPMC Pvt. Ltd. project management 7  Arattukulam Developers developer 8  Archetype Group project management 9  Asipac Projects Pvt. Ltd. developer 10  Bearys Properties & Developments developer 11  Bovis Lend Lease India Pvt. Ltd. general contractor 12  Brigade Group developer 13  Chartered House Pvt. Ltd. developer ...

Concept of Floating Cities.. Found this interesting article on Floating cities from foll link.. http://www.deltasync.nl/deltasync/fileadmin/template/main/projectimg/BlueRevolution.pdf Life on the sea has been one of mankind’s enduring visions, but the technology hasn’t been up to the task... until now. Are we on the cusp of housing communities permanently on the ocean? Though scientists aren’t predicting sea-level rises of the magnitude seen in Waterworld – hundreds of feet thanks to melting polar ice caps – we may have to plan for a world with much higher sea levels. There has long been a dream that one day mankind, or at least some of us, will live on the ocean. Designer and architect Buckminster Fuller saw cities at sea contributing to a sustainable future for humanity. But then floating cities evoked images of flop films, or worse, of wealthy “robber barons” escaping to the high seas for financial reasons. Now, several groups are trying to change this perception by r...