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Updated: 2005-05-09 10:06

Dubai to build world's tallest hotel

世界最高旅館“迪拜塔”即將拔地而起

Dubai to build world's tallest hotel

A computer image released by the Samsung Corp. showing the 'Burj Dubai' (Dubai Tower)

Dubai-owned airline Emirates said it would build one of the world's tallest hotels to cater for growing numbers of tourists to the Gulf Arab emirate.

The Dubai Tower will be the tallest building in the world when finished. It would dwarf the 553m CN Tower in Toronto and planned high-rises in Shanghai and New York.

Some 4000 workers and 100 cranes have gathered to build the hotel, residential and shopping complex of at least 700m which will include over 1000 luxury apartments.

The exact height is being kept a secret, partly for fear of rival bids to be the tallest free-standing building, and because by 2008 it might be technologically possible to go even higher.

Dubai-based architects say they expect Dubai Tower to hit at least 800m. The tower alone would cost at least $1 billion to construct, excluding the complex malls, lakes and smaller tower blocs.

"The design has pushed the limits of what technology can achieve, no one has gone that high before. You have to invent new elevators that can sustain such heights," Naaman Atallah, sales manager for its owner Emaar, told journalists on a tour of the site.

Designed by a US-based consultancy, the tower employs the geometric patterns of Islamic architecture around a base in the form of a six-petalled desert flower.

The plans show an ambitious single structure comprising conjoined tube-shaped towers with the kind of space-age look seen in the New Age album covers of 70s progressive rock bands.

Dubai -- part of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates -- received more than 5.4 million visitors in 2004, up nine percent from 2003, and that the number was expected to grow three times by the end of the decade.

(Agencies)

迪拜所有的阿聯酋航空公司表示,它將修建一座世界上最高的旅館,以容納海灣國家阿聯酋日益增長的觀光客。

竣工后的“迪拜塔”將成為世界上最高的建筑,連553米高的多倫多電視塔和它一比都會變成“小矮人”,上海和紐約正在籌劃中的超高層建筑也將相形見絀。

這座將居住和購物集于一身的綜合性大廈至少將有700米高,內有1000套豪華公寓。為修建這座旅館共調用了大約4000名工人和100臺起重機。

大樓的確切高度目前仍然保密,一方面是因為投資方擔心競爭對手將這個“最高獨立建筑物”的名頭搶走,另外,修筑更高樓層的技術也許到了2008年就已成熟。

來自迪拜的建筑師說,他們希望迪拜塔至少有800米高,光是修建這座塔就至少耗資10億美元,還不包括修筑大型購物中心、湖泊和稍矮的塔樓群的費用。

“這一設計將觸及技術所能達到的顛峰,在此之前沒有一座建筑能修那么高。人們不得不開發能適應這種高度的新型電梯。”迪拜塔的所有者埃馬公司的銷售經理納曼·阿塔拉在參觀該建筑工地時對記者說。

迪拜塔是由美國的一家顧問公司設計的,基座周圍采用了富有伊斯蘭建筑風格的幾何圖形——六瓣的沙漠之花。

這些設計方案展示了一種具有挑戰性的單式結構,由聯為一體的管狀多塔組成,具有太空時代風格的外形。這種形象曾在70年代的現代搖滾樂隊中常見的具有新世紀音樂風格的專輯封面上出現過。

迪拜,這個富產石油的阿聯酋成員國2004年間接待了超過540萬名游客,比2003年上漲了9%,到本世紀第10年,預計游客數字將增長三倍。

(中國日報網站譯)

 

 

Vocabulary:

Dubai: 迪拜,阿拉伯聯合酋長國東部的一個城市和酋長國,濱鄰波斯灣,19世紀60年代在此發現石油。人口265,702萬。

dwarf: to cause to appear small by comparison(相形之下使矮小)

high-rise: a multistoried building equipped with elevators(高層建筑)

complex: 綜合物;綜合性建筑

free-standing: (雕刻、建筑物等)獨立的,自力撐持的

New Age: 新世紀音樂,也譯作新紀元音樂,是70年代產生的一種音樂形式,從冥思和心靈作為出發點而創作的一種非流行、非古典、具實驗性質的樂風,其代表名家有班得瑞、雅尼、神秘園等。

 
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