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Saudi Arabia breaks ground on $50B Mukaab, the ‘world’s largest building’ - which could hold 20 Empire State Buildings
NY Post ^ | 10/24/24 | Shane Galvin

Posted on 10/25/2024 10:37:03 AM PDT by Libloather

It’s an out-of-the-box undertaking.

Ground has officially been broken in Saudi Arabia for what is expected to be the “world’s largest building.”

The ambitious, $50 billion project — called the Mukaab — in the capital city, Riyadh, is part of a wave of futuristic construction across the Arab nation, the Sun reported.

The skyline-redefining Mukaab will clock in at 1,300 feet high and 1,200 feet wide when completed — giving it enough volume to contain 20 Empire State Buildings, the outlet reported.

Offering fine dining, retail space, offices and restaurants, the massive cube will be its own downtown-in-a-box with 2 million square feet of floor space.

Many will also call the cube home — as it will feature 104,000 residential units and 9,000 hotel rooms.

The builder boasts that the Mukaab will be “human-first” and that green spaces will be accessible within 15 minutes of any location in the cube.

The New Murabba Development Company also boasts that it will use artificial intelligence to create immersive experiences for Mukaab visitors. That includes gigantic screens that will cover the outside of the square — in the style of the Las Vegas Sphere.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Local News; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: building; largest; mukaab; riyadh; saudiarabia; themukaab
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Kinda looks like the hideous Hussein liebarry.
1 posted on 10/25/2024 10:37:03 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

The Borg have landed.


2 posted on 10/25/2024 10:38:11 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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It does look Borgian!


3 posted on 10/25/2024 10:38:32 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: Resolute Conservative

The Borg have landed.

Ya , LOL


4 posted on 10/25/2024 10:39:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Libloather

Looks like a very big empty


5 posted on 10/25/2024 10:41:09 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Libloather

Or the Kaaba 🕋 on steroids.


6 posted on 10/25/2024 10:42:51 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Libloather

The land of make believe.


7 posted on 10/25/2024 10:42:54 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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To: butlerweave

It sure does.


8 posted on 10/25/2024 10:43:01 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Libloather

Nice target.


9 posted on 10/25/2024 10:43:51 AM PDT by bwest
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To: Libloather

It's a cube. "My name is Ozymandias..."

10 posted on 10/25/2024 10:44:46 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Libloather

For those days when you find yourself with pocket lint totaling several billions of Riyads, and don’t quite know what to do with it, you can always build another building.


11 posted on 10/25/2024 10:46:07 AM PDT by lee martell
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I heard that the women’s closet will have bathrooms with doors. It will truly be a pleasant place to wait while their husbands shop.


12 posted on 10/25/2024 10:46:15 AM PDT by bwest
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And all too obvious of a target at that.


13 posted on 10/25/2024 10:46:18 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Libloather

So much for thinking out of the box


14 posted on 10/25/2024 10:47:28 AM PDT by algore
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To: Libloather; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; ..
Offering fine dining, retail space, offices and restaurants... 2 million square feet of floor space... will feature 104,000 residential units and 9,000 hotel rooms.
...and not one drop of alcohol in the restaurants or allowed in private residences. And if there's anywhere that actually needs booze, it's any predominantly muzzie hellhole.

That city project ("The Line") didn't get far, so my guess is, this tower would take longer than the Burj Khalifa (six years) and would cost more than double. The KSA is very, very cautious with its budget, and balks at large deficits.

Thanks Libloather, interesting!

15 posted on 10/25/2024 10:48:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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I bet the sand will still get in ,LOL


16 posted on 10/25/2024 10:49:30 AM PDT by butlerweave
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How many cheat foreign(caged) workers will they need to build that because the Saudis can build anything


17 posted on 10/25/2024 10:53:11 AM PDT by butlerweave
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I fill my tank thinking that I do my part for Saudi infrastructure and contributing to the planet’s only trillionare.


18 posted on 10/25/2024 10:55:27 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Libloather
As Douglas Murray has said, Muslims have an incredible inferiority complex related to their religion.

This is because Islamic countries are so primitive. Even the few oil-rich exceptions to that are only rich because of a commodity whose value is created by the Western world.

19 posted on 10/25/2024 10:58:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just adopt ideologies.)
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To: Libloather

Architectual penis envy - “mine is bigger than yours, nah nah nah”. Or how many different ways can we load humans like ants on an ant farm. Disasters are going to happen, so lets make them bigger.

What are the very biggest cities? Who tends to run them politically? Why? Liberals/Leftists/Progressives, because they are not economically viable without a lot of taxpayer supported subsidies for the lesser well off to be able afford living there given that costs there are higher than other places but the elites there NEED the lower wage workers there to make them livable for THEM.

I lived in the ant farm of NYC for over a dozen years. Never went back there to live.


20 posted on 10/25/2024 11:05:47 AM PDT by Wuli
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