World's tallest tower rising in Dubai [Will be at least 160 stories]

Brietbart.com ^ | October 30, 2006 | Unsigned

[GOPJ]

I am afraid that it is going to collapse if they want to build 200 stories.

It's a monument to ego - there's no economic reason to build this building.

Two blocks on either side of the main drag in Dubai is desert - miles and miles and miles of empty, barren sand.

Building "up" in this situation is an expression of grandiosity. It would be the same as if a crazed multibillionaire in the US built a hundred story skyscraper in the middle of a corn field...

[No Blue States]

"What floors are for Women only?"

The ones with the glass ceilings.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Tom Swift and his flying lab will lift the crane off when the building is finished.

[TexasTransplant]

>>>>>>"What a terrible design. The floor plates look useless. I cannot believe they are building this thing out of poured concrete instead of steel"<<<<<<


Fly a fuel laden plane into it and you may see the reasoning, they don't think that the War on Terror (Stupid name) will be won. Concrete melts at a much higher temperature than steel.

PC and MSM must have won that Contract.

TT

[alice_in_bubbaland]

It's not just buildings, they're also into building pretty fancy islands too!

[GOPJ]

LOL

[Vaquero]

It would be the same as if a crazed multibillionaire in the US built a hundred story skyscraper in the middle of a corn field... Z

If you build it they will come...

[AxelPaulsenJr]

LOL, I couldn't resist. That pic brought back some fond memories of my youth spent reading the Tom Swift series of books.

[Redcloak]

I heard that they've going to have a lottery to decide who gets to fly the first plane into the building.

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

That's what I thought. The floors don't look level.

[Canali]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/Planssection.jpg/275px-Planssection.jpg

[miliantnutcase]

The entire country is a facade. It is entirely built on Asian Pacific slave labor, Malaysia, Indonesia etc. Very much like Kuwait I'm sure the native population is getting close to being a minority.

[Centurion2000]

We'll say it (will be) more than 700 meters (2,296 feet) and more than 160 stories

A parachute and a running start off the roof looks to be a new thrill ride for muzzies when it's finished.

[wagglebee]

I always thought that somebody should steal that design, put some more glass and stuff on it and build it in Vegas. I don't know who the North Koreans got the design from, but it is very impressive.

[tumblindice]

Haven't you heard? The Arabs think of us as "friends" & liberators, not customers or clients.
And the Mexicans don't see us "cash-cows" but as an ideal they admire and a lifestyle they aspire to achieve.
And if you don't agree, I'll call you a bad name.
There. That settles it.

[durasell]

I would still like to see it up close. I'm sorry, I can't help myself. I also still watch "steam shovels" work on construction sites.

[hardworking]

the libs will be whining about smashing a plane into it.

Or whining about it punching a hole in the ozone, or using too much water, light, air, cement....you name it, they'll find something to criticize.

[Calvin Locke]

I once worked in a building that was originally a warehouse for a woolen mill. It was all concrete, and the support
columns took up about about 12 feet of horizontal space each.

It was built around 1920 or so, iirc.

One of the small elevators got stuck a lot, and yes, getting everybody to jump at once would get it moving.

The larger freight elevator cars were cordoned off with steel pipe to limit the number of people.

I think we were on the fourth floor, so the stairs were the preferred access method.

[gridlock]

I don't know who the North Koreans got the design from, but it is very impressive.

I suspect it originated on a bar napkin of the Great Leader himself.

[wagglebee]

You're kidding right?