iPad Tower [arch in Dubai is crazy part un]

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MY NINJA PLEASE!!!! This $*%# is ridiculous for more reasons than I have time to write about. First off…the project is real [apparently], and will begin construction in Dubai [what, you hadn’t guessed that already?] sometime this year.

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The 23-storey building, which is scheduled to bring more than 200 units onto the market in 2009, was designed by Hong Kong-based architects James Law Cybertecture International.

The tower will sit atop a docking station angled at six degrees to give the exact look [from Gulf News].

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images from The Dubai Life – articles at Gulf News, Cult of Mac, and Skyscraper City*forums.

Posted: January 4th, 2007
at 11:18pm by orangemenace


Categories: architecture,my ninja, please,housing,featured ninjas,towering pagodas

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  1. […] More from Dubai! If there’s one thing I can say about the UAE, its that they do fund some kick ass projects with all that money – which is something I can get behind. Here we have a new project by Omniyat Properties, the people who brought us the iPad Tower, this time with a design by starchitect Zaha Hadid. The project, dubbed ‘the Opus‘, will appear to be a distorted cube that is hovering from the ground – a cube formed, it seems, by three separate towers that seem to twist and melt together to form a single volume. […]

     


 

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