Dubai City Tower
The Dubai City Tower also known as the Dubai Vertical City is a proposed supertall skyscraper design announced on 25 August 2008. The supertall, created by an architect to display possibly future technologies, is the second tallest building ever fully envisioned after the X-Seed 4000. If ever constructed, the Dubai City Tower will be much taller than any other current man-made structure. It would be nearly three times the height of the Burj Dubai which is currently the tallest man-made structure ever built.
The design has 400 floors with a 200 km/h (125 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 37,000MWH of electricity per year, with a 15MW peak usage. The power will be mostly supplied by solar, thermal, and wind power.
References
- Dubai City Tower
- Dubai The National news paper about Dubai City Tower - The National
- Plans for Dubai City Tower
- The Plans for the 1.55-Mile-High Skyscraper in, You Guessed It, Dubai
See also
- Skyscraper design and construction
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