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It's not irrelevant. It has always been there, and you just have a problem with it now after I pointed out that the Burj Dubai would be more than 1.5 times the size of the Sears Tower. |
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==Architecture and design==
The tower is designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, who also designed the Sears Tower in [[Chicago]] and the [[Freedom Tower]] in [[New York City]], among numerous other famous high-rises. The building resembles the bundled tube form of the Sears Tower, but is not a tube structure. The design of Burj Dubai is reminiscent of the [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] vision for [[The Illinois]], a mile high skyscraper designed for Chicago, [[Illinois]]. The Burj Dubai will be twice the height of the Sears Tower upon completion. Emaar has also engaged [[GHD Group|GHD]],<ref name="GHD Projects"> {{cite web | url = http://www.ghd.com.au/aptrixpublishing.nsf/Content/BurjDubaiTower_prj | title = GHD Projects}} </ref> an international multidisciplinary consulting firm, to assist with the design, review and assessment involved in the construction process. [[Image:Comparisonfinal001fx7.png|thumb|left|Supertall cross-section comparisons.]]
The design of Burj Dubai is derived from patterning systems{{Clarifyme}} embodied in [[Islamic architecture]]<!-- Please give details: What "patterning systems", and how used in Burj Dubai? -->, with the triple-lobed footprint of the building based on an abstracted version of the flower [[hymenocallis]].<ref name="Baldwin"/> The tower is composed of three elements arranged around a central core. As the tower rises from the flat desert base, [[Setback (architecture)|setbacks]] occur at each element in an upward spiralling pattern, decreasing the cross section of the tower as it reaches toward the sky. At the top, the central core emerges and is sculpted to form a finishing spire. A Y-shaped floor plan maximizes views of the [[Persian Gulf]]. Viewed from above or from the base, the form also evokes the [[Onion dome#Outside Russia|onion domes]] of Islamic architecture. During the design process, engineers rotated the building 120 degrees from its original layout to reduce stress from prevailing winds. The tower, at its tallest point, sways a total of {{convert|1.2|m|ft|1|abbr=on}}.<ref name="Baldwin"/>
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