Oh .. and I dont know who the architect is ... i'd be very intrested if someone finds out !!!

enter like this, but with these [ ] instead of { }, and all on one line

{img}http://www.ameinfo.com/images/news/5/18585-
PalmTower.jpg{/img}

to get this...

Aha…..

Thanks jump … now isnt that the ugliest thing that you have ever seen..

I mean just look at the freaking scale !!! all that gold staring down at you.

hmm, some of the wtc entries maybe?

behold the radially symmetric beetle-forms!

truly horrendous. has potential, though..

As a building it's really ugly: ungainly, stumpy, squat, and gold. Ugh.

It is also sort of an anti-phallus, no?

I think it could stand some improvement.
Perhaps Per could improve it with his Uber-structural system.

And that bug pic reminds me of Fear-Factor. Maybe 'Joe' could do one of his beetle-eating contests on the rooftop of the 'beetle-hotel', then have all the contestants jump off into the moat around it.
Cool

to be honest I'm more disgusted by the "urban design."

guys i cant belive you the poetry and the metaphor in that wonderful proposal is lost on you.

the calatrava thing in NYC

well i think it's cute!

What's the metaphor, doberman? Broken condom?

alien eggs

Shedding Swiss Re skin?

I saw the word Trump and I didn't actually have to see the building to know that it was going to be ugly

this is the shame of my town :o(

lb that description may be "antiPhallic" to you, but to others,well its our reality...

I see a metaphor of unfolding....flowering....opening....emerging from cloaked depths...

And those gold things are totally vesica shapes. (If you students don't know that word, look it up, it's a good one for architecture-types to use. And its a term for those plugs they put in plywood sheets to patch imperfections.)

Anyway I'm gettin' a strong female vibe off this so-called "tower".

I have some competitiors from my office view (in Shanghai)

this is called "ugly"

this too..

and this..

giant robot's dildo

The inspiration for this classic piece, probably came from mushrooms on a rotting carcass somewhere in the amazon forest

Finally,
this could very well pass off for the headquarters of a cult "Solar order of the shining bullshitters".

ahhh ... i see you'vr taken a swipe at ol' hafeez ...

good .. good .. i would say that most of his buildings would qualify

try this!!! another quality trump project...

ok, that didn't work...maybe this:
http://acqualina.info/

Yikes J3 !!!!

that is class A puke catalyst !!!

like I always say :-
"Taste is inversley proportional to wealth"

liberty, i see your vesica

and i raise you a fistula


the tower leaves aside, what's happening at the base? looks like sloppy geometry how the shells subdivide into the round bastions (which appear to be 5 stories)

ugh, snowi...yuck.

"vesica" is a melodious term for a cool geometric shape.

"fistula" not only sounds gross, it is gross. Image google at your peril.

But agreed: the termination of those leaf (vesica) forms into the loopy plinth in the middle of a moat - the whole thing is silly.

I just image googled "Fistula"
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AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH !!!!!

sorry!!! i misread vesica as 'bladder' or organ that contains fluid (my sciences background)

may i present for beautiful geometry

http://www.ezct.net/

although, architecturally a fistula 'An abnormal duct or passage resulting from injury, disease, or a congenital disorder that connects an abscess, cavity, or hollow organ to the body surface or to another hollow organ' is an interesting surface deviation where a permanent and new orifice connects exterior surface to interior.

just googled it, you should see (or not) some medical journals..... yeesh

I read somewhere that the place is actual a hideout for Trump's secret identity, "THE BEETLE"



And myriam I completely agree. The building isn't nearly as bad as its urban context.

And does anywone else have a problem with creating artificial islands? Can we say natural (or unatural) disaster?

I don't see how anyone can truly judge a building as ugly by looking at a rendering alone... you have no idea of what materials are being used, what the connections will be like, how the glass will look on the finished product or anything if the sort.

The rendering would allow you to comment on issues of scale and schematic form, but not much else. To have the ability to render a building "ugly" based on this rendering alone is very amateurish.

Do you think you could fully explain and sell someone on a design of yours in ONE arial rendering at 1:5000 scale? I know I couldn't.

curtclay, i hope you are kidding...

the materials to be used are pretty obvious on the rendering (and its pretty common knowledge that trump likes gold. Well even if those forms were made of concrete, it would look just as ugly.

I cannot believe just how BAD trumps buildings are. The scariest thing is that people want to LIVE in them. They're the spinning chrome rims of architecture.

it's cancelled !! /.. phew !!

http://www.7days.ae/2005/11/11/why-the-palm-doesn-t-need-the-donald.html

http://realestate.theemiratesnetwork.com/developments/dubai/palm_trump_hotel_tower.php

http://www.nakheel.ae/specialfeature.aspx?sectionid=2

to be replaced be

it still looks weird ... if you ask me ...

looks like something out of the Alien movie

okkkkkk nevermore....enuff of mumbai.

Here's a high-res rendering. Looks much better now I have to say.

[img]http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/6071/trumphoteldubai4pd9av.th.jpg[img]

yeah .. i does looks better
better than the old one atleast !!

The old one reminded me of this: