DOHA | Aspire Sports City Tower | 318 m | 36 floors | COM

Client : Doha City - Asian Olympic games 2006 - Qatar Designers : Hadi Seenan - AREP (architect) - Ove ARUP (Engineer) - MaP3 (facade design) Data : Height : 300 m, facade surface : 30 000 m2, Budget : 140 000 000 Euros Expected completion : End 2006 Doha City has planned the construction of a 300 m tower to support the olympic flame at the top, and to become after the games a high standard hotel, with revolving restaurant and sport museum. The design is based on a central concrete core, covered with a steel mesh facade, with a varying perforation ratio, vertically and on the azimuthal angle, in order to differenciate North and South facades. One of the renders: The plan of the whole Sports City with the tower there (Xavodeh) The first photo in SSC of the tower during early construction phase: At 03/01/06 (Omar's) Begining of February (do7asky) March 20, 2006 (Mine) From April 1, 2006 (privy) May 22, 2006 (Mine) May 31st update construction with rendering (Salman): June 1st (Mine): Cullwulla's tower update graphic from June 1st: July 1st 2006 (Salman) July 4th (Salman) July 8th (Omar) July 14th (Omar) Mid-July "copyright http://www.karsten-rau.de, by tahai" End of July/ Beggining of August (by Xavodeh) August 9 (by Xavodeh) August 10 (by Xavodeh) August 16th (by Privy) August 18th (by Xavodeh) August 19th (by Omar) August 25 (by Xavodeh) SWIMMING POOL IN THE PROJECTION 30th August (by Xavodeh) Would you like to be the guy on the top near the X?????? There are much more updated pictures and different views in the main forum. You can check it out below in my signature. Enjoy and Please post your comments. >