[Dallas59]

Interesting...

"I bought a one-bedroom apartment on the 80th floor for three million dollars in 2008. With the slide in prices, my loss will be huge, at least theoretically," one Palestinian businessman told AFP.

[digger48]

“Follow the yellow dressed guys”
“Follow the yellow dressed guys”
“Fol-low, follow, follow, follow”
“Follow the yellow dressed guys”

[fish hawk]

I just hope that one of those darn Christians don’t fly an airplane into it. ;^)

[Dr. Ursus]

Sheep and goats for the first 79 floors!

[john drake]

Oh the loss will be huge, realistically, not theoretically. I’m still wondering who in their right mind, other than arabs, would want to buy a unit and live there. Better yet, what businesses are going to occupy all that space?

[lack-of-trust]

I wonder what the maintenance budget looks like?

Imagine the windload stresses and the amount of sway in that building... and the sandstorms! how long will the windows last against the blowing sand.

I would love to meet the facilities team in 4 or 5 years and learn about the challenges of operating and maintaing the monumental building.

[Publius]

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

---"Ozymandias" by Shelley

[USMCPOP]

...estimated to have cost one billion dollars...

[STONEWALLS]

...I thought Dubai was about to default on their bonds...what are they thinking?...and aren’t they the same geniuses that are going to pay Tiger Woods $23 million to do a golf course?

[Abathar]

I know they haven’t designed it locally, but they did build an incredibly beautiful building none the less.

Hopefully they didn’t open the World’s Tallest Target on the same day, Dubai is seen as kind of chummy with the West.

[adorno]

Can a 2600 foot building be classified as a ghost town?

The SYFY channel might be doing a special there soon. It’ll be about disappearing wealth.

[Rebelbase]

[Slings and Arrows]

To get an idea of the scale:

[Slings and Arrows]