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flakfizer
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Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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 Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:59 pm Post subject: Construction of "Asia's Tallest Building" Starts |
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http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/10/16/2009101600512.html
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Construction of Asia's Tallest Building Starts
The construction of the world's second tallest building starts in Seoul on Friday. The ground-breaking ceremony for the 133-story skyscraper tentatively called the DMC Landmark Tower will be held at Digital Media City in Sangam-dong, northwestern Seoul. Construction is to be complete in 2015.
Built on a 37,280 sq.m plot, the ultra high-riser will stand 640 m tall, the world's second tallest after the 160-story, 818m Burj Dubai being built by Korean developer Samsung C&T in the United Arab Emirates.
The DMC Landmark Tower will be 8 m taller than China's Shanghai Dragon, to be completed in 2014, becoming Asia's tallest building. |
This building looks like it will be pretty cool. Just one question though, what continent is the UAE in? |
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chris_J2
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Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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Konglishman
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
Location: Nanjing
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:13 am Post subject: Re: Highrise |
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I suppose some people like to exclude the Middle East from Asia. |
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joeyjoejoe
Joined: 24 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:13 am Post subject: Re: Construction of "Asia's Tallest Building" Star |
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| Built on a 37,280 sq.m plot, the ultra high-riser will stand 640 m tall, the world's second tallest after the 160-story, 818m Burj Dubai being built by Korean developer Samsung C&T in the United Arab Emirates. |
um, Samsung isn't the developer of Burj Dubai, Emaar Properties is the developer..... Samsung is one of the main construction firms, of a dozen or more, taking part in the construction. |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:39 am Post subject: Tall Tower |
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| what continent is the UAE in? |
Konglishman wrote
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| I suppose some people like to exclude the Middle East from Asia. |
The Middle East is not a continent. I know there is contention over whether Turkey is in Europe or Asia, but UAE is definitely in west Asia. And so is the rest of the Middle East. Which it seems is the point that Konglishman is making.
The exterior of the Burj Dubai was completed 1 October, 2009.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai |
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