Description
Added on the 31/12/2015 21:39:05 - Copyright : Eyewitness Video Online
Massive flames envelop a luxury hotel near the Burj Khalifa tower, the world's largest building, in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai. Vanessa Johnston reports.
Video courtesy of Alan J shows large pieces of burning material spilling down from a blaze engulfing the 84-storey Torch Tower in Dubai in the early hours of Friday morning, marking the second time the building has experienced a major fire in just two years. Emergency services converged around the fifth tallest residential building in the United Arab Emirates, fighting the flames and rescuing residents still trapped in the tower.
A massive fire consumes Dubai's Torch Tower apartment skyscraper. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Up, up, and away! Visitors flocked to the recently opened Lotte World Tower to take the world's longest and fastest double-decker elevator, dubbed 'Sky Shuttle', in Seoul, on Wednesday. The elevator whisks passengers from the basement to the 121st-floor in one minute, at an average speed of 33 feet per second. Opened to the public in April after six years of construction, the building, which is the highest in Seoul and the fifth tallest in the world, currently holds three world records; for the world's fastest elevator, the world's tallest glass-bottomed sky walk and the world's highest observation deck. Standing at 1,820 feet tall, the tower, which is said to redefine Seoul's skyline, is nearly a thousand feet above the city's next highest building, the International Finance Centre Office Tower. The double-decker Sky Shuttle, which is basically two elevator cabins stacked on top of each other, can hold a maximum of 52 passengers at one time and connects the ground floor of the Lotte Tower directly with the observation deck. The inside of the cabins keep visitors entertained with 15 separated OLED TV screens, which show breathtaking scenes of the South Korean capital for the short ride. How would you like to zoom to the 121st floor in just 60 seconds?
Dubai says it has launched a prototype 3D-printed office building, with floorspace of about 2,700 square feet.
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
