Sunday, 25 March 2012

Skyscrapers in india

India Tower Concept artwork showing the tower's proposed design. General information Status On hold Type Hotel, Residential, Retail Location Marine Lines Mumbai Coordinates 18.950159°N 72.821348°E Construction started 2010 Estimated completion 2016 Height Roof 700 m (2,300 ft) Technical details Floor count 126 Design and construction Architect Foster and Partners Developer Dynamix Balwas (DB) Realtors [1][2] References [3] India Tower (previously known as the Park Hyatt Tower ; also known as the Dynamix Balwas Tower or DB Tower ) is a 126-story, 700-metre (2,300 ft) supertall skyscraper that began construction in the city of Mumbai , India , in 2010. Construction work was put on hold in 2011. [3] If completed per its schedule in 2016, the India Tower will be the world's second- tallest building, after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Planning The Dynamix Balwas realtor group first proposed the project, under the name of Park Hyatt Tower , in 2008. The Dynamix Balwas proposal would have been an 85-storey tower with a height of 301.1 metres (988 ft). [4] The project was subsequently dropped, before being revived and amended in 2010. In January 2010, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation authorised the tower's construction on a site located on Charni Road in Marine Lines , just north of Mumbai's historical district.


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