TOWER OF BABEL: The Most Audacious Real Estate Project Ever

Everywhere in the world be it in Lagos, Nigeria, Dubai, UAE, Paris, France, New York, USA, etc. that anyone decides to embark on an ambitious building and construction project, it becomes an important piece of news. This is not surprising as man has by their creative imaginations, pro-active work and passion been able to bring into existence amazing and breathtaking structures. With these projects too, many has sought to project their egos, countries and etch their names in the annals of history.

The Kaizen blog brings to you some of the remarkable projects from the 19th century:

Eiffel Tower: This humongous piece of steel was actually built as a temporary structure for International Exhibition of Paris in 1889 to commemorate the centenary of the French Revolution.

Named after Engineer Gustave Eiffel who designed it, this 300 meter tall structure consumed 2.5 million rivets, 300 steel workers, 2 years of labor, 15000 iron pieces and 40 tons of paints. This audacious project was the tallest structure in the world until 1930.

The Burj Al Arab: This luxury hotel, the symbol of modern Dubai stands on an artificial island 280m from Jumeirah Beach and connected to the mainland by a private curving bridge. It is shaped to mimic the sail of a ship. The owners of the building gave the builders a mandate to construct a building that would become an iconic or symbolic statement for Dubai, something very similar to Sydney with its Opera House , London with Big Ben or Paris with Eiffel Tower and that is what the Luxury hotel has become. The building, the fourth tallest structure on Earth today started in 1994 and was completed in 1999 gulped a whooping $1 billion.

The Burj Khalifa: Yet another behemoth structure situated in Dubai, the Burj Khalifa is a combination of visionary ideals and solid science. Named in honor of the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa Bin Al Nahyan, it is the tallest building in the world at 828 meters.

It took builders 5 years to build it. It opened for use on January 4, 2009.

The Tower of Babel: This historical Structure has come to be symbolic not because it is still standing or the splendor and elegance it still exhumes but rather for the audacious thinking behind its construction, the proposed height and the implication.

As every great project must have a visioner, a man believed to be Nimrod conceived in his mind a grandiose plan to build a tower that would reach heaven so that people can have easy access to God and his throne in heaven.

Work was reportedly going in on in earnest until God saw the possibility of their determined stance and had to get them abandon the project by confusing their language. This project though not completed, is believed by archeologist to be taller than the tallest building on earth, and believed to be an etiological evidence of multilingualism, gave men the impetus to build skyscrapers and proved that when man is determined to do something, even higher, unseen forces are awed and are moved to action.

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