Last Friday we covered the story of an iPod-inspired resdiental tower planned for Dubai. SkyscraperCity has posted photos of a large model of the “iPad” tower.
“Real estate developer Omniyat Properties is planning to launch projects worth more than Dh3 billion in 2007, starting with a tower inspired by Apple’s iPod MP3 player,” Robert Ditcham reports for Gulfnews.
“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,” Ditcham reports. “The tower will sit atop a docking station angled at six degrees to give the exact look.”
Full article here.
More photos via SkyscraperCity here.
It may have looked cool back in 1996 but not 2006.
Looks more Tron inspired to me. Either way, it looks pretty cool.
Good God that thing is ugly. Are you kidding me? It looks like a futuristic building you would’ve seen on hawaii-five-0.
Inspired? I guess sometimes you can love something to death. In this case its necrophilia.
I thought the “iPad” was Playtex’s response to the hip generation….
I guess I’ll make like a period and flow on outta here!
um…
wtf?
Hmm, I don’t really see the iPod inspiration in this tower myself. Sure it looks futuristic and it’s called “iPad” and all, but it doesn’t really look much like an iPod to me. Like the earlier comment said, it reminds me more of Tron than anything else.
i think it’s a ballsy design but i can’t imagine living in one of the suites with all the outside building lights turned on. You’d never have an evening view as the lights would blot it out. And how much would the maintenance fees cost with so many lights on? Are the lights LED or solar powered?
It is angled 6 degrees?
another leaning tower, but this one on purpose?
Yeah, that’s a crappy design. And a very stupid name. Ergo, any idea of being inspired by the iPod is wishful thinking.
Oh and “Cybertecture”? Fucking hipster maroons.
Building the (iM)Perfect Beast
MW:old, as in “Well, the song is not THAT old….compared to me.”
Al,
The base or “dock” itself is angled at 6°, not the tower, which is vertical.
I’d just be happy if he spell checked his article before he published it
“storey, organisation, authorised”
Tron inspired is right. And that movie sucked.
I’d hat to be anywhere around this building in a windstorm.
…oh, and i saw Tron during its first run in the theaters. Was much hyped in its day, but it still sucked.
@MikeK: organisation, authorised are correctly spelled… in Britishspeak.
“storey” is also correct as a variant of “story.”
Perhaps now the iPod lemmings are beginning to see how limited their viewpoint has been. An architecture built around the design of the iPod has no option but to fail. The more logical, sound and wise choice would have been to design around the Zune. The design of the Zune brick has been around for thousands of years. Contstructed of Zune bricks, the Dubai building had the potential to last for thousands, tens of thousands, of years. But designed around the faddishly limited iPod, the building is destined to be demolished in less than a decade. Now that people can see the limitless potential the Zune has to offer, the iPod begins its sunset into obscurity.
Welcome to the Social.
Do you think they will invite Steve for the grand opening when it is built?
The people in Dubai seem to have no understanding of economics…
They spend and spend on meaningless building projects, but all their money come from petrolium (oil), and since the petrolium reserves are settled to run out within the next 40 years, it’s not too damn smart 😮
iMat: ” …since the petrolium reserves are settled to run out within the next 40 years, it’s not too damn smart… “
Settled? By whom? The naysayers have been saying petroleum reserves having been going to run dry for the last 50 years (yes, that long. It’s not a new fad). Who’s done this settling? Al Gore?
Thanks. I needed a good laugh.
There is a lot of ugly shit like that being built in UAE. I have been to the bar in the Burj Al Arab hotel, which is the one shaped like a sail and the walls there look like something out of Mad Max or Thunderdome. Bloody awful.
Dubai is out of control with the number of buildings going up and those promised for the near future. Some are tasteful, but most are BUTT UGLY.
Nice place for a holiday but I would never live there.
Is it my eyeballs, or does it look Zune colored?
If Hubbert was right, then the world of V8 will end in 30 years or so. Which is good thing, since if North pole melts, things will turn pretty bad for people who live by the ocean. And I may have to use sweatshirt while suntanning and drinking Two Dogs in Finland???
Huh? This is not at all what I had imagined when I read the previous articles that had no pictures.
There goes the neighborhood.
Magic Word: design, as in BAD.