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Originally Posted by zerokarma
I guess they are thinking of the future and trying to keep it dense.
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The thing is though, this is not downtown. If these were office towers in the middle of a CBD then this type of density would be no problem but it's not. It's a residential district with people living there all the time, there needs to be some breathing space, some parks or something. Yes there will be loads of shops, cafes and restaurants in the marina but some green space would be nice. JBR is already way too dense (but maybe that's because all the towers look the same and they're also fat) and this area will have towers twice as high.
Maybe Emaar just wasn't expecting developers to come along and build 100-storey towers when they designated the plots in this area as unlimited in height. If they spread the tallies around the marina then you wouldn't have all the towers blocking each other's views (this is important because these are res towers). Also some other problems would be avoided like traffic or risk of a fire, etc. Imagine if one of these supertalls caught fire, having 10 more 1000 footers right next to it isn't going to be the best.