But none of the problems listed with 432. So, we know that they're not tight enough on information suppression to keep fires out of the news. Still, I don't see anybody in Dubai naming any building after anything involving fire for a while. 2017 fire just doesn't have much information. Reading the wiki, first fire damaged the cladding, they fixed the cladding the next year. Damn thing keeps catching fire every other year. #7: 'Marina Torch' - Lives up to its name, with fires in 2015, 2017, and 2019.

Not seeing any articles about it being horrible. #4: 'Princess Tower Dubai' - some articles about living there on less than $1400/month. Heck, the 'newest' tallest residential tower in NYC, 111 W 57th, seems to lack the tower, but does have a twist in its structure - that might be designed to stabilise it in prevailing winds. Third, most of the dubai skyscrapers are more rounded than 432. There isn't anything remotely as tall anywhere close. Meanwhile, 432 Park sticks up like it is flipping the bird at the city. That's a bit like having windbreaks up, even when the skyscraper is a bit(or a lot) taller than its neighbors. Second, looking at the pictures, all the skyscrapers in Dubai are nestled up near other skyscrapers. Those spikes you see stick up out of many skyscrapers? They're actually helping keep the building stable! But 432 completely lacks it. Thing is about those 'fancy toppings'? They actually serve engineering design purposes! Back when I was doing some recreational reading, I ended up reading how they will put structures up on the tops of skyscrapers to help counteract various forces. Looking at the towers in Dubai, they all have a fancy topping, which 432 Park lacks. Fair enough.īut, I gotta say this about 432 Park - It's a bloody box. The newest two tallest residential structures are both in NYC as well, but below that, you have a lot of buildings in Dubai. Okay, looking at the buildings, I can immediately see some differences. I looked specifically at residential structures because, well, the demands are different than for commercial property. I'm not that concerned about whether it's a couple off in the list, just getting a sense of magnitude. It's the 29th tallest building in the world according to wikipedia. It'd be one thing if the 4 links had been to for different towers, but given that they're all to the same one, I would indeed consider it being a lemon of a building to be a possibility.Ĥ32 Park is listed as the 3rd tallest residential structure. As long as problems don’t crop up before they unload the property, they can do whatever they want.” The people who put up the buildings are not accountable for their quality.

The problem is not confined to tall buildings, says a well-known structural engineer who asked to remain anonymous so his career wouldn’t spontaneously combust: “It’s the way development operates in New York. It’s the fulfillment of the kind of scary situation you’re warned about.”Ībsolutely, says Steven Edgett, an elevator specialist and the president of the California-based Edgett Williams Consulting Group: “As soon as I saw the core of 432 Park, alarm bells went off.” The elevator shafts are too tight, he says, making breakdowns a foregone conclusion. Not at all, says James von Klemperer, president of the architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, which plants skyscrapers all over the world: “In a building that thin, this kind of thing can happen, but it shouldn’t. Do they have to sway? Must the wind whistle through the vents? Will elevator cables unavoidably slap and cabs go out of service? Does the plumbing predictably rebel, creating a 1,000-foot cascade inside the central utility shaft? Are these interruptions of the good life a necessary condition of the high life?

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