Mile-high Tower in Saudi Arabia

[Ramako]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ews.html?in_article_id=550548&in_page_id=1811

"Saudi prince promises £5bn desert spire TWICE as tall as nearest rival being built"

At 5,250ft, the £5billion project, masterminded by two British engineering consultancies, will be twice as high as its nearest rivals, skyscrapers under construction in Dubai and Kuwait, and almost seven times as high as the Canary Wharf tower in London's Docklands.

It's not whether it can be built that I question. But could it be filled?

 

[Canuck]

That's the height of insanity.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

i heard the top floor will be occupied by the mile high club.

 

[smuncky]

looks like it'll be able to fly to the moon as well with those rocket engines on the sides.

 

[Hydrogen]

Great.

From up top you'll be able to see desert for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles, instead of just for miles and miles as on existing buildings.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

Great.

From up top you'll be able to see desert for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles, instead of just for miles and miles as on existing buildings.

where we have ecologically sensitive land, we build wide and destroy all & they build tall, instead of wide to protect the sand.

 

[Towered]

More Middle Eastern pecker stretching. *yawn*

 

[grey]

Yay, the CN Tower was mentioned!

 

[Hydrogen]

Come to think of it, the Saudi tower looks rather refinery-esque.

How appropriate.

 

[EnviroTO]

where we have ecologically sensitive land, we build wide and destroy all & they build tall, instead of wide to protect the sand.

Maybe they are trying to build to a height that will trigger updrafts which lead to condensation and rain.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

Maybe they are trying to build to a height that will trigger updrafts which lead to condensation and rain.

LOL!!

 

[Hipster Duck]

"Saudi prince promises £5bn desert spire TWICE as tall as nearest rival being built"

Oh, I was hoping he'd promise something REALLY lofty like giving women basic human rights.

 

[Ramako]

Oh, I was hoping he'd promise something REALLY lofty like giving women basic human rights.

But if you run around handing out human rights like tic-tacs, who's gonna build the tower?

 

[jeicow]

Their rendering of the CN Tower seems....chunky.

 

[Hydrogen]

And the Eiffel Tower looks like its wearing panties.