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Burj khalifa vs dubai creek tower11/24/2023 ![]() Yet building tall can have an environmental impact, especially when towers are not part of a dense urban area with snappy public transport. “In the Middle East, it really has more to do with announcing the role of that country, or that person in some cases, as having arrived on the world stage.” And these days a skyscraper is about as permanent a thing as you can build,” he says. “There is a certain degree of an attempt at legitimacy by building objects of permanence. That, too, is part of the Gulf states’ obsession in joining the (almost) mile-high club, says Daniel Safarik, editor of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat journal. Skyscrapers are also the ultimate status symbol. “I think that’s really why people are trying to build tall in the Middle East.” In one fell swoop, the Dubai Creek Tower, the tallest building since 2025, collapses to the ground at around the same time as the Burj Khalifa.“The tower itself was expensive, but the value to the developer is not necessarily the tower itself but the value of the surrounding land,” he says. As the sandstorm strikes Dubai, the base of the tower is the first to fail, as saltwater had degraded the structure faster than above. The weak, thin structure of the building is on the verge of snapping, and one sandstorm will do just that. Two and a half centuries of degradation and corrosion of the reinforced base of the tower has devastated the top as well as the exterior. However, its state is faring better than the Burj Khalifa nearby, meaning it might be able to outlast it, although its skinny base might damper its chances. The base of the building is majorly degraded from the salty air, as well as the sandstorms that struck Dubai. ![]() While Dubai is falling apart, the Dubai Creek Tower still stands mostly intact, but the exterior is slowly falling apart. In that same day, the antenna of the tower snaps off, plummeting over 2,700 feet to the ground. Inside the tower, the windows are broken, with the Pinnacle Room partly filled with sand and the restaurants slowly falling apart. The tower has weakened and is now more exposed to the harsh sandstorms. During a windy day, the cables snap, and in a chain reaction, bring the array of cables to the ground. The cables still keep the tower standing, but they are slowly degrading to the salty air from being near the creek.Īlthough the reinforced concrete base of the tower still stands intact, the cables supporting the tower are at their limit. A sandstorm striking Dubai had broke many windows, letting in sand and wind. Like the Burj Khalifa, the Dubai Creek Tower is dried up and the windows are ruined as well. The sandy environment is slowly taking an effect on even the tallest of towers. However, its close proximity to Dubai Creek will soon prove to be an issue for it in a life after people. The steel-built cables all around the tower keep the base supported are in strong shape. The restaurants inside are also bare, with the food inside rotting and attracting insects to them. Inside the tower, the Pinnacle Room lays empty, with nobody to experience the 360 degree view of the city. ![]() The lights go out in the advanced city, and the beacon of light shining out of the tower goes out, leaving the Dubai Creek Tower in the darkness. However, a day after people and the power grid in Dubai malfunctions. ![]() In Dubai, the now tallest building in the world, the Dubai Creek Tower stands in its heightened glory.
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