Dubai - from a bird's eye view

Dubai - a city of oil, money, gold, and world wonders ... A place that is now surely one of the biggest construction sites of the world. Dubai – from the bird's eye view... 

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Armani-designed residential tower in Mumbai

The Rs 2,000-crore project coming up in Central Mumbai will have apartments and villas designed by Armani, with a price range of Rs 7.5 crore to Rs 50 crore. (Image courtesy: The World Towers)

World One is a residential skyscraper under construction in Mumbai. It will be located in Upper Worli of Mumbai and is likely to be completed by 2014. (In picture: The central courtyard of The World Towers project) (Image courtesy: The World Towers)

The project will have the world’s tallest residential tower once completed. For interior design, Lodha Group has partnered with the famous designer Giorgio Armani`s interior design studio,Armani/Casa for World One to design residences and common spaces. (Image courtesy: The World Towers)

Armani who has also designed residences at Burj Khalifa in Dubai, his interior design studio Armani/Casa will do the interiors and decor for a project in India for the first time. According to PTI reports, the luxury flats designed by the Italian designer may cost around Rs 50 crore. (In Picture: The Family Room from an apartment in the project.) (Image courtesy: The World Towers)

The Rs 2,000-crore project coming up in Central Mumbai will have apartments and villas designed by Armani, with a price range of Rs 7.5 crore to Rs 50 crore. (Image courtesy: The World Towers)

The building will have 300 apartments, including 3-and-4-bedroom "World Residences", "World Villas" with their own private pools and a limited number of duplex "World Mansions". (Image courtesy: The World Towers)

The Dining Area in one of the Armani-designed apartment. (Image courtesy: The World Towers)

The building is 117-storeys high. Pictured left, The Master Bedroom in one of the apartments. (Image courtesy: The World Towers)

Sky Habitat — A Luxury Residential Complex in Singapore

Singapore's CapitaLand construction company in 2012 started the construction of the most expensive residential complex in Singapore Sky Habitat. The snow-white 38-story skyscraper located on lush on 506 apartments planned to be completed in 2016. Luxury condominium project to be located in the suburbs of Bichat, by the famous architect Moshe Safdie, developed for him an impressive stage structure.

The two buildings will be connected by Sky Habitat transitions three bridges, two of which will serve as a kind of parks, and the top is a large swimming pool. 

Among the priorities of the project the green at all levels of the building, the optimal orientation to the sun, a good natural ventilation of buildings and scenic views.

Do not forget about the architect and the area adjacent to the complex, which will be located park, swimming pools, sports and play areas.

Despite the fact that Sky Habitat are just beginning to build and look at it only through computer graphics, most of the apartments are already sold out. The cost of a three-room apartment here is about 2 million Singapore dollars ($ 1.56 million)

Swimmers braving a length of this pool will need a real head for heights - seeing as it's a staggering 38 storeys high.

The infinity pool will dramatically connect Sky Habitat Singapore's two towers once the ambitious project is completed in 2016.

With 509 apartments, the Moshe Safdie-designed development in the central island suburb of Bishan will offer residents stunning vistas across the area.

Flat owners will also be able to traverse the two structures via sky bridges on the 14th and 26th floors. Wong Heang Fine, CEO of CapitaLand Residential Singapore which is developing the site, said: 'With Sky Habitat, we are creating a habitat for the future; a condominium that is also a house.

'While structurally a high-rise apartment, Sky Habitat will give residents the feeling of living in a house. This is because of the natural ventilation, lush gardens, sky bridges and open walkways that surround them.

'At the same time, they will enjoy the luxurious facilities and the connectivity and convenience of living in one of the most popular residential estates in Singapore.

Safdie is no stranger to creating swimming pools in seemingly strange places. He also played a key part in designing the £4billio Marina Bay Sands development, also in Singapore, which has a 150metre pool 55 storeys up.

Worry: Hopefully there will be more health and safety in place around the pool once it is opened, as in this impression there seems to be no barrier over the edge

The boat-shaped SkyPark is perched atop the three towers that make up the world's most expensive hotel. The open-air pools are in stark contrast to NEMO 33, which with a depth of 33metres is one of the world's deepest.

The venue, in central Brussels, Belgium, contains 2.5million litres of non-chlorinated spring water and is usually reserved for scuba drivers to train in. And it is a tad smaller than the San Alfonso del Mar resort in Chile, where a quick dip could well turn into a marathon.

The world's largest pool cost $1billion, holds 66million gallons and is so big you can even sail boats on it.

Man-made paradise: A computer-generated image of the San Alfonso del Mar resort shows how its semi-circular artificial beaches and filtered waters sit right next to the real thing

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Korean Twin Towers

Architects have designed a pair of apartment towers in South Korea that are unbelievably reminiscent of the 9/11 attacks on New York's World Trade Centre.

These incredible pictures show how Dutch architecture firm MVRDV somehow managed to design the eerie 260-metre and 300-metre towers next to each other, connected by a ‘pixelated cloud’.

And in a good contender for quote of the year, a company statement insists they did not ‘see the resemblance during the design process’ for the buildings - due to be completed in Seoul in 2015.

Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has designed a pair of apartment towers in South Korea that are unbelievably reminiscent of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre

Plans: MVRDV designed a 260-metre and 300-metre tower next to each other, joined by a 'pixelated cloud'

The luxury residential towers have been named ‘The Cloud’, with one reaching 260 metres or 54 floors and the other covering 60 floors over 300 metres. The total surface area is 128,000 sq metres.

The ‘cloud' is housed in a 10-floor tall structure positioned halfway up the structures, and the towers feature a fitness studio, pools, restaurants, cafes and a conference centre

Khan Shatyr — The World’s Tallest Tent in Kazakhstan

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Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center in Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan, is an architectural project that is billed as the world’s largest tent. The “tent” is made of a transparent material and suspended on a network of cables strung from a central spire 150 meters high. The structure has a 200 meter elliptical base enclosing an area of 140,000 square metres. Underneath the tent, an area larger than 10 football stadiums, is an urban-scale internal park, shopping and entertainment venue with squares and cobbled streets, a boating river, shopping centre, mini golf and indoor beach resort. The transparent material allows sunlight through which, in conjunction with air heating and cooling systems, maintains a comfortable internal temperature between 15–30 °C while outside the temperature varies between -35 and 35 °C across the year.

To prevent condensation in the winter, three translucent layers of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene fabric or EFTE act to channel warm air. In summer, fritting on the outermost foil layer provides solar shading. Inside, low-level jets direct cool air across the space, while opening vents at the apex induce stack-effect ventilation. The transparency and scale of the tent stands out in the skyline like a beacon, changing colors at night and streaming in natural light during the day. 

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Inaugurated in 2010 by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Khan Shatyr was described as “the latest vanity project” of Kazakhstan's increasingly autocratic president by The Guardian.

Nazarbayev moved Kazakhstan's capital to the isolated northern city from Almaty in 1998 and renamed it Astana, which means, literally, "capital". On the tenth anniversary of the move, Nazarbayev signed a decree declaring 6 July – which happens to be his birthday – Astana Day. The name “Khan Shatyr” itself roughly translates as 'the tent of the khan, or king”.

Nazarbayev has ruled Kazakhstan with an iron fist since it gained independence amid the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. His current presidential term expires in 2012, but under legal changes approved by parliament in 2007, he is allowed to serve as president indefinitely.

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