Mile High Building

[ARon]

I should have called it a spacescraper

How high does a tower need to reach before it's considered too high? If you think relaxing up on top of the Burj Khalifa's At.mosphere won't give you vertigo, try Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Tower — a structure that will extend one mile upwards — almost twice the height of Dubai's tallest.Those Middle Eastern princes just can't get enough of those insanely tall skyscrapers. Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal, head of Kingdom Holding Company recently gave his approval for construction of what will be billed as the world's tallest man-made structure — the Kingdom Tower.
Designed by Adrian Smith, the Kingdom Tower will be built in Saudi Arabia's city of Jeddah. The tower will stretch one mile up into heavens and include 12 million cubic feet of space, several stories of office space, several stories for a hotel and four tiers of residential space, with the upper most tier reserved for "alternative energy generation" solutions (perhaps including a pendulum to keep the entire tower from collapsing).

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The Kingdom Tower project is so large that it'll cost $30 billion to construct. To get to the top from the ground floor, an elevator ride would take an estimated 12 minutes to ascend. That's quite a journey for a view that is sure to be mostly sand and clouds.
As if it wasn't already hard enough to keep the glass on the Burj Khalifa squeaky clean, think how much more difficult it'll be to clean the dirt off windows twice as high up.

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No matter how you look at it, the Kingdom Tower reeks of excess, but who cares when you're rolling in money?

http://dvice.com/archives/2011/04/kingdom-tower-w.php



This is insane. I'm sure most people had this vision of the future where there are buildings like this all over, or something like that, maybe on some Fifth Element type shit. But to be building this right now! Half Amazing half are you fucking serious what is the point.

 

[Ristol]

I start getting vertigo at about twenty feet off the ground. This building is my nightmare.

 

[Shadows]

Damn, i dunno if I would be able to sleep so damn high. or anything like that. I'm good with heights but that's fucking high.

 

[Ristol]

True story: I was in Atlantic City about six months ago, staying at the Showboat Hotel on the third-highest floor. Upon entering the room for the first time, I opened the curtains and looked down. I immediately closed the curtains, wobbled a bit on my feet, and lay down on the floor. I was trying to pretend I was at ground level. This went on for about three minutes.

It's a wonder my wife stays with me.

 

[Stred]

I feel sorry for the sand niggers who have to clean the windows

 

[Flipmo]

Excellent investment of money another huge useless tower, while the rest of the Middle-East lives in poverty. Beautiful.

 

[masta247]

^ Communist!

 

[vg4030]

Most of these buildings looks like giant dildos. Clearly designed by men with 'issues'

 

[Ristol]

They're simply imposing their phalluses on the public consciousness. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[ARon]

Most of these buildings looks like giant dildos. Clearly designed by men with 'issues'

lol what do you expect them to look like?

 

[vg4030]

I think its a subtle message from the Illuminati that they are fucking us big time

 

[Jokerman]

lol what do you expect them to look like?

A vagina with labia on the sides.