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Sky The limit-NBMCW June 09 406 PDF
Sky The limit-NBMCW June 09 406 PDF
R
ising alone above the crowd has in the metropolitan cities.
always held a special thrill. So With income growing and large
every country and city intents on number of people moving to metropolitan
asserting its presence on the globe by cities, the demand for housing is on the
building skyline instantly recognizable upswing. Due to high construction cost
around the world. But the case is different and non-availability of land at preferred
with India. If on the one hand it designs locations, people opt for buildings or
the high-rise building to reflect its identity apartments. These buildings offer many
on the world map, on the other hand it advantages such as round-the-clock
has also the responsibility to provide security, back-up power supply,
accommodation to its growing population. maintenance car-parking facilities and
All this has led to an alarming increase kid’s play areas. And above all these multi-
in high-rise buildings in India especially storied buildings have their downside too.
Constructing high could be due to
two reasons, either for the ‘Tower Battling’
i.e the desire to rise high or for the ‘Need
for Housing’ i.e to fulfill the demand of
accommodation. In this article, some of
the highrise buildings coming up in India
with the involvement of the foreign
companies in the form of contractors,
consultants or architects in these projects
has been discussed.
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Dynamix-Balwas Tower
(DB Tower), Mumbai
One of India and the World’s greenest
towers has changed in name and design!
Rotating-Blocky India tower is officially
redesigned and rebadged as DB Tower,
the flagship project of DB Realty.
The finalized design will be huge —
at 75 stories of residential and untold
more in lobbies, sky lobbies and utility
floors, and boasting a height and crown
that will push this supertall to over 400
meters! Like its India Tower precursor, it
will be of mixed (residential + hotel) use.
Construction will soon commence with
an aim for completion by 2011. Indeed
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Kolkata's Tower
Kolkata will get its tallest building at 250
metres when a commercial property
comes up on Chowringhee, next to Tata
Centre. The tower, to rise to a height
equivalent to 83 storeys, will be the city’s
first run in the construction Olympics that
is dominated by Burj Dubai at 636m.
“We will actually construct 54 floors,
but at 250m, it will easily be the tallest
commercial structure in the country, its
mall spread over six floors. The other
height corresponding to an 83-storey
structures in the convention centre would
tower,” says A.N. Shroff, the leader of the
include a trade centre, service
consortium Diamond Group that is
apartments, restaurants, a post office, and
developing the building.
a multilevel car parking.
To come up on the vacant land that
was once the proposed site for a Grand
Magnolias Tower, Hyatt, the 54-storey structure will tower
over the Chowringhee skyline, housing 10
Gurgaon levels of car parking at the base and a
helipad on top.
The capital city of India is also
“The Chowringhee building will have
not away from the highrise
many firsts, like a 4.2m floor-to-ceiling
trend. A prestigious
condominium-The Magnolias,
part of many dlf properties, is
under construction in the hottest
real estate market Gurgaon,
close to Delhi.
All the five blocks in the
development will have 19
towers which will form a high-
end residential complex
overlooking the new Golf
Course and consists of
apartments, penthouses and
duplex spread over 15 area of
land. This landmark property
consists of G+19 with total 300
members of apartments. The
development is supposed to be
completed by the end of 2009.
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