For the first time, Hyderabad Urban Development Authority has given approval to construct a 30-storey project by Aliens Group (www.aliensgroup.in) in Hyderabad. This approval is considered a landmark achievement in the history of Hyderabad real estate as it going to be the tallest residential complex ever in the Hitech City, which was once known as city of nawabs.
Located in Gachibowli, the IT& Financial district, this 30-storied residential complex named Aliens Space Station 1, is coming up in more than 18.5 acres of land with nearly 80% of remaining area as landscaped greens. Expected to go up to a height of 87 meters, this residential development will house 2,205 apartments including duplexes and penthouses.
"Hyderabad is growing as Asia's new International hub and is a gateway to the region. Keeping pace with this development, Aliens Group synonymous for its "Intelligent Living", is developing a series of hi-tech digital homes" Aliens Group Managing Director, Mr. Hari Challa says. He added saying that Aliens Space Station 1, barely 3 Kms from the Outer Ring Road and 20 minutes drive from the new International Airport, is slated to be completed within 36 months.
The key highlights of this project are its home automation features such as biometric security access systems, touch pad switches with lift buttons inside home, Wi-Fi connectivity, shopping mall, multiplex theatre and entertainment facilities.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
High rise!
Tall structure, on top of the world, spectacular views, away from the hustle-bustle of everyday’s life...We all dream big, we like heights! Indian builders have read their TG’s pulse and are building tall structures in India as well. In Hyderabad, Aliens Group is the only builder who has read the pulse of their customers and is in the process of shaping Aliens Space Station 1, a gigantic S-shaped 30 floors residential township in Gachibowli, Tellapur. The other reason why builders are building tall buildings is land shortage. Population across the world/ in India is rapidly increasing; people are moving towards urbanism, young professionals with adequate income group who can spend on High rising structure are some of the chief reasons why tall buildings are taking shape.
Getting into the detail of what is high-rise and what makes these buildings unique in structure will help us understand the advantage of skyscrapers in our city, pleasure of living in a building which stands tall.
High-rise buildings became possible with the invention of the elevator and cheaper. High-rise/skyscrapers stand for its magnificence tall structure. Skyscrapers are tall, gigantic, environment friendly developments. These are those buildings which are of 80 meters (262 feet) if it protrudes above its built environment and changes the overall skyline.
These buildings consumes optimal space, accommodates more people, gives larger connectivity within a single township, widens your horizon by means of integrated township, provides healthy environment by making environment sensitive developments.
A high rise building is prone to natural calamities if not built on structurally strong foundation. One of the prime factors while choosing your building is the high rise shouldn’t be located in a seismic active region. The high-rise/Skyscrapers which are built on strong foundation ca stand firm against any external disturbing factors.
There are various latest construction technologies which builders like Aliens Group are using for stronger base of high rise like 30 floors. Those technologies include the usage of raft foundation which uniformly distributes heavy loads to the land; Shear wall is another such technology which replaces ordinary columns, uniformly disperses external pressures and gets a strong grip to the ground. Global orientation is another factor which Aliens has taken into consideration thus any sudden deviation will not affect their high-rise structure.
Now you can touch the sky by living in one of the high-rise in your own city, choose to live in your dream space.
Getting into the detail of what is high-rise and what makes these buildings unique in structure will help us understand the advantage of skyscrapers in our city, pleasure of living in a building which stands tall.
High-rise buildings became possible with the invention of the elevator and cheaper. High-rise/skyscrapers stand for its magnificence tall structure. Skyscrapers are tall, gigantic, environment friendly developments. These are those buildings which are of 80 meters (262 feet) if it protrudes above its built environment and changes the overall skyline.
These buildings consumes optimal space, accommodates more people, gives larger connectivity within a single township, widens your horizon by means of integrated township, provides healthy environment by making environment sensitive developments.
A high rise building is prone to natural calamities if not built on structurally strong foundation. One of the prime factors while choosing your building is the high rise shouldn’t be located in a seismic active region. The high-rise/Skyscrapers which are built on strong foundation ca stand firm against any external disturbing factors.
There are various latest construction technologies which builders like Aliens Group are using for stronger base of high rise like 30 floors. Those technologies include the usage of raft foundation which uniformly distributes heavy loads to the land; Shear wall is another such technology which replaces ordinary columns, uniformly disperses external pressures and gets a strong grip to the ground. Global orientation is another factor which Aliens has taken into consideration thus any sudden deviation will not affect their high-rise structure.
Now you can touch the sky by living in one of the high-rise in your own city, choose to live in your dream space.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Tallest buildings in Hyderabad
The Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Tower (abbreviated as APIIC Tower) is a 100 storeys, 450 m supertall skyscraper approved for construction in Hyderabad, India. It will be the tallest building in India on completion.
The tower is to be part of the business district in the Manchirevula suburb of Hyderabad. The tower will have corporates, hotels, and other establishments. The state government has set up this special trade development project as an exception to the city limit at 30 floors. Reliance Infrastructure has won the contract to construct this 64 billion project.
At over 90 stories in height, Lanco Signature at Lanco Hills SEZ, located at Manikonda village had planned to be a beautiful World’s Tallest Residential Tower. Of late, we have heard of the problems the builders are facing with its approvals and permissions. The building is planned in a project spread over 100 acres.
For the first time, Hyderabad Urban Development Authority has given approval to construct a 30-storey project by Aliens Group (www.aliensgroup.in) in Hyderabad. This approval is considered a landmark achievement in the history of Hyderabad real estate as it going to be the tallest residential complex ever in the Hitech City, which was once known as city of nawabs.
Located in Gachibowli, the IT& Financial district, this 30-storied residential complex named Aliens Space Station 1, is coming up in more than 20 acres of land with nearly 80% of remaining area as landscaped greens. Expected to go up to a height of 87 meters, this residential development will house 2182 apartments including duplexes and penthouses.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
The tallest buildings in India
Shapoorji Pallonji & Co Ltd./SD Corporation's twin Imperial Towers, designed by Mumbai architect Hafeez Contractor is the tallest building. It is under construction. The Imperial Twin Towers are built on former slum land where the current re-development model of builders providing free land and rehabilitation to slum dwellers in exchange for rights for property development, was first put into practice on a big scale. This model was used for for slum and mill land redevelopment across the city, and across India as a whole.
Planet Godrej is located in the heart of South Mumbai.
With racecourse and arabian sea on one side, haji ali mosque on the other, ocean and the island beyond on the other and zoo on the fourth side, Planet Godrej is at the finest locations of Mumbai.
Standing 48 floors tall, and constructed by Singapore DP architects, the design of the skyscraper makes it a awe inspiring landmark.
It is awarded the prestigious PINNACLE Award 2006, by ZEE Business, for the best upcoming real estate project in the country.
Lodha Bellissimo is a 648 feet tall 48-storied residential tower in Mumbai. Befitting its brand name, the gently-contoured sea-wave inspired façade and wave-like roof element make for a stunning elevation.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Tallest 3 buildings
Burj Dubai is a majestic skyscraper. At almost 2700ft, it is the tallest man made structure ever. This massive project with a total budget of about US$ 4.1 billion is in the process of construction in Dubai, UAE, and the handovers are expected by the last quarter of 2009.
A Chicago based architect, Adrian Smith, is the man behind the phenomenon. SOM, a Chicago-based architecture and engineering firm was the official in-charge of Burj Dubai.
Hailed as one of the Seven New Wonders of the World and Seven Wonders of Engineering, Taipei 101 is the tallest completed building in the world. It is 101 floors above ground and 5 floors below the ground. It is a building for commercial use, used for communication, conference, library, observation, office, restaurant, retail, fitness center. It was launched amidst fireworks and gala celebrations on New year’s eve in 2004.
The Shanghai World Financial Center is in Shanghai, China. It consists of offices, hotels, conference rooms, observation decks, and shopping malls. The skyscraper stands tall at 1,614.2 ft and became the second tallest building in the world. Kohn Pedersen Fox is the architect. It is officially open for business.
I shall explore more buildings in the next posts.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
High Rise Apartments
Ever since I read Fountainhead, I fell in love with buildings. With Skyscrapers. No, my fascination with tall buildings is much older than that. Somehow, high rise buildings have caught my fancy ever since I was a kid. I remember how we kids used to look at this building in my neighborhood (14 floors high) in Mumbai with jaw dropped awe!
High rise buildings are an audacious display of dreaming big. There is this larger than life magnificence about these buildings. To quote Li Fu Tuan, they are a vertical aspiration` - the human desire to defy gravity. They represent the relentless quest of height in architecture; they are a symbolic representation of the supremacy of man. A testimony to the supremacy of man!
This blog is my paean to high rise buildings.
Some technical fundae on high rise buildings:
Skyscrapers/High rise buildings: Buildings taller than 150 m are called as skyscrapers. Even a building of 80 meters may be considered a skyscraper if it protrudes above its built environment, like the building in my neighborhood, I was talking about. And they ain’t easy to build. If Solid Mechanics as a subject boggles you, imagine what it takes to build a structure as high that. Structure, geotechnical aspects, design, material, stresses on the material, tests conducted on the slabs, compressibility of soil, construction process and pipelines, staircases, elevators. The list can stretch as long as Homer’s Odyssey!
High rise buildings were there since time immemorial. The Insulae of Roman architecture, buildings in the Roman Empire reached higher than 10 stories. The Great Pyramid of Giza, Lincoln Cathedral, Washington Monument. The skyline got closer during medieval times. Heard of the landmark Towers of Bologna in Italy? And then mankind went higher!
High rise buildings are an audacious display of dreaming big. There is this larger than life magnificence about these buildings. To quote Li Fu Tuan, they are a vertical aspiration` - the human desire to defy gravity. They represent the relentless quest of height in architecture; they are a symbolic representation of the supremacy of man. A testimony to the supremacy of man!
This blog is my paean to high rise buildings.
Some technical fundae on high rise buildings:
Skyscrapers/High rise buildings: Buildings taller than 150 m are called as skyscrapers. Even a building of 80 meters may be considered a skyscraper if it protrudes above its built environment, like the building in my neighborhood, I was talking about. And they ain’t easy to build. If Solid Mechanics as a subject boggles you, imagine what it takes to build a structure as high that. Structure, geotechnical aspects, design, material, stresses on the material, tests conducted on the slabs, compressibility of soil, construction process and pipelines, staircases, elevators. The list can stretch as long as Homer’s Odyssey!
High rise buildings were there since time immemorial. The Insulae of Roman architecture, buildings in the Roman Empire reached higher than 10 stories. The Great Pyramid of Giza, Lincoln Cathedral, Washington Monument. The skyline got closer during medieval times. Heard of the landmark Towers of Bologna in Italy? And then mankind went higher!John Hancock Centre is huge. Yeah, huge!
And then came the super tall skyscrapers era. The age of axis mundi. Home insurance building in Chicago, American Surety building in New York, Chrysler building, Empire State building, World trade centre took us higher.
Sears building remained the highest for several decades.
From the 1930s onwards, skyscrapers also began to appear in Latin America (Caracas, Mexico City) and in Asia (Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Mumbai, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei and Bangkok).
Sears building remained the highest for several decades.
From the 1930s onwards, skyscrapers also began to appear in Latin America (Caracas, Mexico City) and in Asia (Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Mumbai, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei and Bangkok).
PETRONAS towers in Kuala Lumpur are the tallest towers of the world. 88 stories HIGH!
Practically, high-rise buildings are constructed largely because they can create a lot of real estate out of a fairly small piece of land. Because of the availability of global technology and the growing demand for real estate, skyscrapers are seen as the most fitting solution to any city that is spatially challenged and can`t comfortably house its inhabitants. And it makes sense to go higher.
I shall explore in this blog, the high rise buildings of the world, India, viability of these structures, technologies, builders in India using this concept and more.
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