Currently drowned in water what could be more appropriate news then a new tallest! The capital of Indonesia, Jakarta will soon be home to this beauty and for sympathy reasons let’s just say we classify it as a skyscraper.

20 ft taller then the CN Tower!
Photo courtesy to Alan G. Davenport Wind Engineering Group BLWTL and East China Architectural Design Institute (ECADI)

It’s already well under construction and creates arguably South East Asia’s best skyline competing with Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur and in terms of density it’s sure nr one. Closing date 2009!

Do you spot the cranes? 83 skyscrapers currently UC.

Fast Facts:

Jakarta Tower or Menara Jakarta
Status: Under Construction
Expected Completion: 2009
Height: 558 m(1831 ft)
Architects: Alan G. Davenport Wind Engineering Group BLWTL and East China Architectural Design Institute (ECADI)

Psss, did you know Jakarta is a real melting pot of cultures and that Indonesia is considered muslim?

The whole complex is now UC! It’s known as Los Faros de Panama and compromise of three towers but out of special interest for us is this skyscraper, the Torre Central.

Can’t say it’s exactly slender but hey, it’s tall!
Photo courtesy to Chapman Taylor LLP

Torre Central will become Panama’s second tallest skyscraper behind the also under construction Ice tower and reach the height of 350 m, 1184 ft. The scale of the project is huge, hotel, casino, shopping mall and residentials, the only thing missing is a senior service center but I’m sure it’s one on the map there as well. On the picture abow you could guess the two other towers and they are nothing to be a shamed of either at 950 ft, 290 m.

Torre Oeste and Torre Este on the left and the right hand side, designwise more of my taste.
Photo courtesy to Chapman Taylor LLP

Altogether like this the complex look more homougenous to me, prove me wrong in the year of 2009!

Fast Facts:

Torre Central
Status: Under Construction
Expected Completion: 2009
Height: 346 m(1135 ft)
Floors: 84
Cost: $450 million (Whole complex)
Architects/More info: Chapman Taylor LLP

New York based Frank Williams & Associates is behind this tower, Europe’s new tallest! Being constructed as we speak the site is located in the Presnensky area it’s in the right neighbourhood but still quite far away from the rest of the skyscraper construction n the “Moscow-City” area.

Not a very Russian Design.
Photo Courtesy to: Frank Williams & Associates

Topping out in 2008, but not yet known exactly when, the Vostok skyscraper which was announced as “Europes next tallest” still might be able to hold the title for a few months as it’s being completed this year as well. However Europes current tallest, the Canada Square in London will be outcompeted by several hundred feets so now some ignorante people claim Russia ain’t Europe…

Fast Facts:

Mercury City Tower
Status: Under construction
Expected Completion: 2008
Height: 380 m(1247 ft)
Floors: 70
Architects: Frank Williams & Associates

After five years of skyscraper inactivity I was starting to give up hope for Riyadh but finally! Let me introduce to ya all the Kingdom Trade Center Office Tower.

Photo courtesy to WZMH Architects.

At this stage a proposal but not any proposal, it’s a proposal of a second tallest in Kuwait City and quite spectacular to! Somehow does it remind me of CN tower made into student apartments.

Fast Facts:

Kingdom Trade Center Office Tower
Status: Proposed
Expected Completion: ?
Height: 280m(919 ft)
Floors: 70
Architects/More info: WZMH Architects

Hong Kong, China:

No. I can’t show you any pictures and yes it’s only proposed but still I would say it’s most likely to get built. What I’m talking about is The Gateway III. Judging by the name and a proposed height of 450 m or 1476 ft this skyscraper really seem like a massive project don’t you think? The Gateway…taste the words! These are the facts for now:

Fast Facts:
The Gateway III
Status: Proposal
Height: 450 m(1476 ft)
Architects: Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd.

Check out (possible) more info here: Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd.

Bonus pick:

Other famous gateway, the St Louis arch.
Photo Courtesy to Kim Tucker and the Drop Zone

With two million pilgrims visiting each year, Mecca is to the Middle-East what Fort Lauderdale or Daytona are to the US, the only difference is the object of worship. No matter it beeing cheap Bud or the Holy Allah, worshiping demand height and in a skyscraper culture like the one in Mecca(just check out the minarets for God’s sake!)no one is likely to get disappointed!

89 m, 290 ft of concrete minarets please. Coming up!

Best of all? Mecca is Booming! Two million visitors in a city of 1.5 million asks for quite a few hotel rooms you see and hotels are mainly what’s beeing constructed. Over thirty skyscrapers is currently under construction and new proposals are given everyday, there’s no end!

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What the fu*k! No news is certainly good news, Palacio de la Bahía has been cancelled. Not even the offical construction ceremony held last July could change that. Finito! For those of you who like to mourn a little bit here it is in all it’s glory one more time.

What could have been Panama City’s second tallest skyscraper…
Photo courtesy(?) to Jesús Díaz & Asociados.

Fast Facts:

Palacio de la Bahía
Status: Cancelled
Expected Completion: 2009
Height: 350 m(1184 ft)
Floors: 97
Architects/More info: Jesús Díaz & Asociados

So much for that “Palacio”…

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia:

In a city which is sposed to almost double it’s population in less then 15 years one might imagine a skyline packed with cranes and skyscrapers. That’s not the case. Pakistan’s Capital city Riyadh are only home to four skyscrapers abow 100 m, 300 ft and that in a city with a five million population but on the otherhand, the skyscraper it is home to are quite spectacular, what about this one, the cities tallest.

The Kingdom Centre, 302 m, 992 ft.

Looking at the surrounds make the Saudi’s obsession for trees and bushes and stuff pretty obvious(Riyadh=tree, greenery in Arabic.)to bad they haven’t made reality of it other then in the name though.

To me, towers like the Kingdom Tower is well enough and second tallest skyscraper, the Al Faisaliyah Center make noone disipointed n terms of wacky design.

Ball’s are popular in the middle-east. The spaceship-like lowrise building in the back
is the architecturaly renowned Ministry of Interior.

To my surprise the Al Faisaliyah Center is only 267 m(876 ft) and together with The Kingdom Centre unthreatened in the top today.