GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
WORLD ONE, MUMBAI
World One is a residential skyscraper in Mumbai, India. It
is currently under construction, but once complete in 2018,
it will be the tallest residential skyscraper in the world. The
final building will consist of 117 floors with 18 elevators all
serving 300 apartments.
BURJ KHALIFA, DUBAI
Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai. It is the tallest man-
made structure in the world, at an impressive 830 metres
tall. The skyscraper was designed to be the centrepiece of
the surrounding mixed-use development. This development
consists of tens of thousands of homes, hotels, parks,
residential towers, a mall and even a man-made lake.
PALM ISLAND, DUBAI
Palm Island is one of the most famous construction projects
in the world. The entire project required the dredging of
enormous amounts of sand, as well as large amounts of
concrete supports to form the islands.
REGATTA HOTEL COMPLEX, JAKARTA
The Impressive Regatta Hotel was designed by Atelier
Enam. Based on the nautical theme, where the centrepiece
is an aerodynamically shaped hotel, bound to be one of
the most striking landscape features overlooking the Java
Sea. The Regatta Hotel Jakarta is a five-star hotel that offers
an Aqua Park in a complex spawning over 11 hectares of
reclaimed land.
SOUTH TO NORTH WATER TRANSFER
PROJECT, CHINA
North China consists of around 50 percent of the population
of China but only 20 percent of its total water resources. To
balance things out a bit, China has spent the last 15 years
building a series of canals to transport water to where it’s
needed. The central canal was completed in 2014 with two
more currently under construction. Once complete the entire
system should transport around 45 billion cubic metres of fresh
water each year.
Source: https://interestingengineering.com/these-10-construction-projects-are-amazing-feats-of-engineering
https://www.wonderslist.com/top-10-most-astonishing-constructions-in-the-world/
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