World's tallest building to be built on Karachi island: Musharraf

[Owais]

World's tallest building to be built on Karachi island: Musharraf
KARACHI: President General Pervez Musharraf has announced to build world's tallest building on Karachi-connected island while the mega project of northern by-pass will be inaugurated next month.

Addressing the inaugural ceremony of Bagh-e-Ibn-e-Qasim constructed on 130 acres, he praised Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad for taking personal interest in completing the project.

Among others Sindh Governor Isratul Ebad, Sindh CM Arbab Rahim, CIty Nazim Mustafa Kamal, and provincial ministers were also present. Musharraf added that Ebad along Rahim and Kamal has turned Karachi city into parks city.

He annonced to support K-4 project designed to provide 100 million gallons of additional water for Karachi while provision of drinking water will be made sure, saying new projects to resolve issues pertaining to electricity, traffic, and cleanliness are in pipeline.

He asked environmentalists not to criticise the development projects, saying trees will be choped and sea-life disturbed since it is inevitable as consequence of such projects. He assured that new trees in double quantity will be planted later.

He announced to donate Rs2 million for labourers involved in constructing the Bagh-e-Ibn-e-Qasim, saying that 70 thousand plots were sold to poor people in Malir Development scheme and Taiser Town on low prices.

Thanking President Musharraf for taking personal interest in all Karachi projects, Ebad announced to build a resort on 800 acres near Manghopir and picnic spots alongside Malir canal.

http://geo.tv/geonews/details.asp?id=2740&param=1

 

[Janbaz]

Awesome. It will make us so proud!:flag: :flag: :flag: :flag:

 

[Thunder]

Pics, pics, pics

 

[pilot_dude]

LIKE TALLER THAN THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING!!! VERY NICE! I LIKE IT!! BY WHEN WILL IT BE MADE?? DETAILS DETAILS! AND LIKKE THUNDER SAID pics, pics, pics!

 

[Adux]

Empire State building is not the tallest in the world, It used to be in 1940's maybe. Presently Petronas is the tallest building in the world. Shanghai and Duabi are in the running for the worlds tallest building, Mushraff will have to wait for those people to complelte, so he can set himself a challenge.

Time to call PM Manmohan Singh

 

[niaz]

Empire State building is not the tallest in the world, It used to be in 1940's maybe. Presently Petronas is the tallest building in the world. Shanghai and Duabi are in the running for the worlds tallest building, Mushraff will have to wait for those people to complelte, so he can set himself a challenge.

Time to call PM Manmohan Singh

Think this time Mushy is talking beyond his depth. Currently Shangai ( can't remember Chinese name) at 1380 feet ( 420 meters) is suppposed to be the tallest buliding in the world followed closely by a building in Tawain and by Petronas Tower both more than 1200 ft high.

Dubai tower ( Burj al Alam, Dubai) is under construction; they are not disclosing actual height because Dubai would like to keep the tallist building record as long as possible. ( some say it will be 800 meters !!!!). Karachi may have tallest buliding in the subcontinent; but in the world !!! nothing but wishful thinking.

Sorry guys.

 

[pilot_dude]

WHO CARES, PAK RULES.

 

[Adux]

Proposed Towers

Sumida Tower (613.5m) has been proposed in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. If completed, it will be the tallest free standing structure in the world, overthrowing the CN Tower. It is planned to be finished by 2011.1
Noida Tower (750m) is being built in small metro city of Delhi's NCR. It will be the second tallest building in the world when completed in 2013 (depending on the final height of Burj Dubai).
Golden Triangle City Centre(GTCC) are four 140-floored skyscrapers under development in the commercial metro hub of Gurgaon in NCT, to be taller than Taipei 101.The project is approved by the State Government and is under recognition by Airport Authority of India.It is sure that the buildings will be built by 2010.
Proposed "Murjan Tower" in Manama on the tiny Island of Bahrain is going to be 1,022 meters (3,353 ft) in height. The Murjan Tower is being designed by Danish firm Henning Larsens Tegnestue A/S and comprises 200 floors. If built, it will become world's tallest building, surpassing the proposed Mubarak Tower in nearby Kuwait City.
The proposed Mubarak al-Kabir Tower in Madinat al-Hareer (City Of Silk), (Kuwait) is going to be 1,001 m (3,284 ft) in height. Taller than the upcoming Solar Tower (in NSW, Australia) by 1 meter only. There are further plans to push the tower into even greater heights as most investments will go into making this structure the tallest tower in the world.
The proposed Solar Tower in Buronga, New South Wales, Australia would be 1,000 m (3,281 ft) tall. Engineering feasibility has been demonstrated to the satisfaction of consulting engineers, but financial viability remains questionable.
Near Fuento el Fresno in Spain, the construction of a 750 metre tall solar tower is planned. If it will be built as planned, it will be nearly twice as tall as today's tallest structure in the European Union, the Belmont TV Mast.
Burj Dubai in Dubai, UAE is a 808 m (2,651 ft) skyscraper currently under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Designed to be completed around 2009, this would put it at the number one spot in all four of CTBUH's categories, as well as make it the tallest manmade structure of any kind in history.
The proposed Center of India Tower in Katangi, India would be a 677 m (2,222 ft) skyscraper with 224 stories. It has been planned to be built in 2008. Upon completion, the building will have the largest gross floor area in the world; approx. 30 million sq. feet. [2]
The 610 m 2000 ft Chicago Spire (formerly Fordham Spire) would surpass the Sears Tower as the tallest tower in Chicago as well as North America. The building would have 150 stories as well as a top floor height of 2000 ft.[3] The project was given new life when Garrett Kelleher, executive chairman of Shelbourne Development Ltd & the Shelbourne Group acquired the land in July 2006 with plans to fully fund the development of the project. The building is planned to break ground sometime in early 2007 with completion expected in late 2010.
The 492 m (1,614 ft; roof height) Shanghai World Financial Center in Shanghai, People's Republic of China has proposed completion in 2008, but has been delayed by evaluation of soil stability. A competing on-going project for the world's tallest is the 474 m (1,555 ft) Union Square Phase 7 in Hong Kong, also scheduled for completion in 2009. This would make either building the tallest under categories 2 and 3 by the CTBUH.
The Freedom Tower of the new World Trade Center in New York City will reach 1,776 ft (541.3 metres) to its spire and about 1,368 ft (417 m) to its roof. This would make it the tallest building under categories 1 and 4 by the CTBUH, if no other record-breakers have been built by its completion date (currently at 2012).[citation needed]
Port Tower Complex Karachi Port Trust is taking on a Rs. 20 billion project, the Port Tower Complex, is said to be 593 metres (1,947ft) high 1. 1947 is the independence year of Pakistan. It should be finished within six years. It will comprise a hotel, a shopping center, and an Expo center. Integrating into Karachi’s skyline, the main feature of the venture shall be a revolving restaurant, a viewing gallery offering a panoramic view of the coastline and the city. The Tower is planned to be located at the Clifton shoreline. When completed it will be the tallest building in Pakistan and the 2nd tallest building in the world, first being Burj Dubai.
The new Guangdong TV Tower at Guangzhou, People's Republic of China may also become one of the world's tallest structures.
Construction was scheduled to begin in 2006 on the now cancelled Strait of Messina Bridge. The bridge would have become the largest suspension bridge as well as the tallest. The proposed height of the two towers at 382.6 metres, is taller than the current record holder, the Millau Viaduct in France (341 metres).[citation needed]
There are some plans for a 609.6 metre high free-standing TV tower at Bayonne, New Jersey.
During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, Vladimir Tatlin had designed a structure named The Monument to the Third International to become the international center of the Komintern. Better known as the Tatlin Tower, the stucture would have risen 400 meters into the air. For the time, it would have been by far the tallest building in the world. The Russian Civil War stopped the project from continuing, due to lack of resources and time. Later, the Stalinist doctrine of "Socialism in One Country" and the abolishment of the Komintern made the plan for an international center to communism of no use to the Stalinist bureaucracy of the USSR.
Proposed Incheon Tower would become the tallest building in Korea at 640m.
A tower has been proposed for London and if it is approved it will be 1500.00 metres tall, which would make it the tallest building in the world, as it would be nearly three times the current Taipei Tower. It will contain 41000 flats with 500 floors. [4]

 

[Adux]

Think this time Mushy is talking beyond his depth. Currently Shangai ( can't remember Chinese name) at 1380 feet ( 420 meters) is suppposed to be the tallest buliding in the world followed closely by a building in Tawain and by Petronas Tower both more than 1200 ft high.

Dubai tower ( Burj al Alam, Dubai) is under construction; they are not disclosing actual height because Dubai would like to keep the tallist building record as long as possible. ( some say it will be 800 meters !!!!). Karachi may have tallest buliding in the subcontinent; but in the world !!! nothing but wishful thinking.

Sorry guys.

Tallest tower in the world is more than 502 Taipei Towers in Taiwan
followed by Sears towers in US and the Petronas in Malaysia.

Construction of a tower in delhi with 750 m has already started, BurjDubai is 800m tall, Chinese are finding it hard to build more that 650meters cuz of soft mud in shanghai
There are lot of news peices on karachi towers, at 593, dont see where he can get the funding

 

[Neo]

February 28, 2007
Karachi to get one of world’s tallest towers

KARACHI, Feb 27: President Pervez Musharraf has said that one of the tallest buildings of the world is planned to be constructed in Karachi.

He was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of Bagh Ibne Qasim here on Tuesday night.

The president referred to the project pertaining to the beach and islands' development and said this would be a mega project of international standard, adding that for this the land would be reclaimed from the sea and “we hope that in the centre of this project there will be a building 1,947 feet high.

He said with development projects like these, Karachi would attain a higher stature in the world.

The president said a three-year elevated expressway project would be launched on Sharea Faisal, adding that there was a mass transit project from Sohrab Goth to Keamari and the elevated train service would also be initiated in five sectors.—-APP

http://www.dawn.com/2007/02/28/top1.htm

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[HASEEB66]

World's tallest building to be built on Karachi island: Musharraf
KARACHI: President General Pervez Musharraf has announced to build world's tallest building on Karachi-connected island while the mega project of northern by-pass will be inaugurated next month.

non sense other links say one of the tallest buildings not the tallest and mushy also said hope so it is in proposal not sure...khi also has the second highest fountain of the world in that sea view area...we hear good things like this but they happen one in 10 and we hoipe this one is one in 10

 

[HASEEB66]

There are lot of news peices on karachi towers, at 593, dont see where he can get the funding

its private investment, not coming from his own pocket but i wonder where the 450 million pounds receipts from surrey palace in uk went..may be he is using that money
motorways were also built by private investment, all tall buildings like mcb tower and habib bank on ii chundrigar road are private just like canary wharf in london (hsbc tower & barclays tower)
when the government was investing
on an international airport in sialkot(city of footballs) the sialkot chamber of commerce said the government does not need to fund we will fund the airport ourselves and they did so..

 

[Moin91]

Oo bhai!! musharraf say bolo kay pahlay apna defence to strong karley phir banana World Tallest Building !! hamara navy strength itni kamzoor hay to phir musharraf ko chaheye kay woo yay paisa navy ki stength ko strong karnay per laga dey
Thanks.

i want to asked to anyone on what island world tallest building made ????
reply plzz

konsay island per banay gi yay building ??

 

[EagleEyes]

I just have to say. Damn!!

Is this an attempt from Musharraf to be the most successful President in the history of Pakistan to contribute to Pakistan so well? Hmm...

 

[pilot_dude]

Security is gonna have to be dam tight in and especially around the building.....especially the airport to prvent another 9/11....