Dubai City Tower
| Dubai City Tower | |
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| برج مدينة دبي | |
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Dubai City Tower proposed vision. | |
| General information | |
| Status | Vision |
| Type | Mixed use |
| Location | Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Estimated completion | Never Built |
| Height | |
| Antenna spire | 2,400 m (7,874 ft) |
| Roof | 2,400 m (7,874 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 400 |
The Dubai City Tower, also known as the Dubai Vertical City, is a proposed skyscraper design announced on 25 August 2008. The building is supposed to be 2,400 metres (7,900 ft) tall. The building, created by an architect to display possibly future technologies, is the fourth tallest building ever fully envisioned after the Tokyo Tower of Babel (10,000 m), the X-Seed 4000 (4,000 m) and the Ultima Tower (3,218 m). If ever constructed, the Dubai City Tower will be much taller than any other current man-made structure, at almost three times the height of the Burj Khalifa. The Dubai City Tower would be almost seven times taller than the Empire State Building.
The design has 400 floors with a 200 km/h (120 mph) vertical bullet train acting as the main elevator. The design is inspired by the Eiffel Tower to better deal with the massive wind forces pushing on it. It has a central core with 6 outer buildings that are connected to the central core every 100 floors. This design both stabilizes the structure and spreads out its mass.
The Dubai City Tower is estimated to consume 37,000 MWh of electricity per year, with a 15 MW peak usage. The power would be mostly supplied by solar, thermal, and wind sources.
See also
- Skyscraper design and construction
- Proposed tall buildings and structures
- List of tallest buildings in Dubai
References
- Meraas dreams of a city in the sky - The National
- The Plans for the 1.55-Mile-High Skyscraper in, You Guessed It, Dubai
- Vertical City, An Architect’s Dream
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