Dubai's Failed & Lost Skyscrapers And Mega Projects

Today, we will see and explore mega projects and skyscrapers that Dubai undertook but failed and were cancelled. Billions were lost The list includes the possible tallest skyscraper of 2kilometre that never got ahead, the world's first rotating skyscraper, the biggest shopping mall and more.

Number one : Dubai City Tower

On August 25, 2008, plans were unveiled for a new tower in Dubai called the Dubai City Tower, also known as the Dubai Vertical City. The ultra-tall skyscraper is designed to house a metropolis with tens of thousands of permanent residents. The architect intended the skyscraper to stand 7,875 feet, or 2,400 meters, tall to demonstrate cutting-edge future construction technologies. The Dubai City Tower is the fourth-tallest proposed building after the Tokyo Tower of Babel (33,000 ft; 10,000 m), X-Seed 4000 (13,124 ft; 4,000 m), and the Ultima Tower (10,557 ft; 3,218 m). If the top of the spire is taken into account, the Dubai City Tower reaches 8,686 ft (2,648 m).

Number two : NAKHEEL TOWER

Nakheel Tower was a planned skyscraper on hold in Dubai, United Arab Emirates by developer Nakheel. The project was previously called Al Burj While the proposal changed over time, the tower was intended to be the tallest building in the world, surpassing the 828-metre (2,717 ft) Burj Khalifa which was completed in 2010. It was planned to reach 1400 meters.

In January 2009, it was announced that the project was put on hold due to financial problems caused by the Great Recession.As a result of the Dubai World 2009 debt standstill, Nakheel Group's financial problems increased considerably and the tower was consequently cancelled in December 2009.

Number three : Dynamic Rotating Tower

The Dynamic Tower (also known as the rotating tower or the Da Vinci Tower) is a cancelled 420-metre (1,378 ft), 80-floor moving skyscraper, designed by architect David Fisher.

Similar to the Suite Vollard completed in 2001 in Brazil,each floor is designed to rotate independently,[3] resulting in a changing shape of the tower. Each floor is designed to rotate a maximum of 6 metres (20 ft) per minute, or one full rotation in 180 minutes.

It was proposed as the world's first prefabricated skyscraper with 40 factory-built modules for each floor.Fisher said that 90% of the tower could be built in a factory and shipped to the construction site.This would allow the entire building to be built more quickly.The core of the tower must be built at the construction site. Fisher said that the prefabricated portions would decrease the project's cost and the number of workers,and that construction will take 30% less time than a normal skyscraper of the same size. The majority of the workers would be in factories, working under safer conditions.Kitchen and bathroom fixtures would be pre-installed. The core would serve each floor with a special, patented connection for clean water, based on technology used to refuel airplanes in mid-flight
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