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Saudis plan to construct 5,280 foot high tower
Posted: April 11th, 2011, 1:43 pm
by Col. Flagg
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Mile-high business hub: Saudi Royal family plans £12billion building so tall it will take 12 MINUTES to reach top by lift
The Saudi Royal family today unveiled plans to construct the world's tallest building - which will be an incredible one MILE high.
Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia will be 1.6km tall (one mile) when it is completed and consist of hotels, offices, luxury apartments and a shopping centre.
The structure will be twice the height of the world's current tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and FIVE times as tall as Britain's highest building, The Shard. Check it out... I wonder if the CIA and Mossad could demolish this baby like they did the WTC's?
Re: Saudis plan to construct 5,280 foot high tower
Posted: April 11th, 2011, 5:02 pm
by John Locke
ya and it'll be finished in what 150 years? That sounds like an engineers nightmare...
Re: Saudis plan to construct 5,280 foot high tower
Posted: April 11th, 2011, 5:04 pm
by Col. Flagg
John Locke wrote:ya and it'll be finished in what 150 years? That sounds like an engineers nightmare...
No doubt!
Re: Saudis plan to construct 5,280 foot high tower
Posted: April 11th, 2011, 6:51 pm
by pjbrownie
And like the Egyptian pyramids, built with slave labor.
Re: Saudis plan to construct 5,280 foot high tower
Posted: April 11th, 2011, 8:11 pm
by Rincon
Nice.
Re: Saudis plan to construct 5,280 foot high tower
Posted: April 11th, 2011, 8:45 pm
by HeirofNumenor
I wonder if the CIA and Mossad could demolish this baby like they did the WTC's?
More likely by the Hand of God...
Re: Saudis plan to construct 5,280 foot high tower
Posted: April 11th, 2011, 10:27 pm
by kathyn
It's insanity to try to construct such a building.
Re: Saudis plan to construct 5,280 foot high tower
Posted: April 12th, 2011, 12:58 am
by gkearney
Not so crazy as you might think. Frank Lloyd Wright proposed such a towner for Chicago in 1956 The Illinois (
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Re: Saudis plan to construct 5,280 foot high tower
Posted: April 12th, 2011, 1:19 am
by bbrown
Spire of Mammon?
Re: Saudis plan to construct 5,280 foot high tower
Posted: April 12th, 2011, 10:58 am
by SpeedRacer
I want to get the IT contract on that building.
Re: Saudis plan to construct 5,280 foot high tower
Posted: April 12th, 2011, 11:42 am
by shadow
Rincon wrote:Maybe the Lord will confuse their language.
Their language is already confusing.
Re: Saudis plan to construct 5,280 foot high tower
Posted: April 12th, 2011, 11:46 am
by John Locke
shadow wrote:Rincon wrote:Maybe the Lord will confuse their language.
Their language is already confusing.
HAHA! good point.