World's tallest tower planned in India (Financed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)

Gulf Daily News ^ | Thursday 28th July 2005

[nickcarraway]

CHICAGO: A 224-storey pyramid shaped building, the tallest in the world, is being built at Katangi, near Indian city of Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh state. The 2222-foot (677m) Center of India Tower scheduled for November 6, is being financed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (The Beatles former spiritual leader), and will be his new world headquarters. The firm designing this tower are known for a previous large development, the Twin Towers in Battery Park City, New York.

Meanwhile, a twisting 115-storey glass and concrete tower that would be the United States' tallest building may soon grace Chicago's lakefront, its developer said yesterday.

Critics compared the proposed 2,000-foot (610 metre) Fordham Spire to a giant candle fit for a cake, while others said it was out of place in a post-September 11 world in which landmark skyscrapers could be terrorist targets.

The tower, which would house condominiums and a hotel, is the brainchild of Christopher Carley, chairman of Chicago-based Fordham.

It was designed by award-winning Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava, who is known for his curvaceous bridges, as well as for designing the winged addition to Milwaukee's art museum and the transportation center to be built on the site of New York's Ground Zero.

The slender tower will soar 1,458 feet (444 metres) to its roof and then add a spire to reach 2,000 feet (610 metres), topping the 1,450-foot-tall (442 metre) Sears Tower, currently the nation's tallest, and New York's proposed 1,776-foot-tall (541 metre) Freedom Tower.

At least two previous designs to build the world's tallest building in Chicago fell flat for lack of financing since the Sears Tower lost the title of world's tallest building in 1996 to Kuala Lumpur's twin Petronas Towers.

Current title-holder Taipei 101 in Taiwan is 1,670 feet (509 metres) tall but it will soon be eclipsed by the Burj Dubai tower in the United Arab Emirates that may reach 2,300 feet (700 metres).

[nickcarraway]

China Spy Guide

[SevenofNine]

IS HE STILL ALIVE Beatles guru LOL!

[LdSentinal]

How about the world's tallest 7-11?

[Mount Athos]

My first reactive thought may be completely wrong, but here it is. What is the Islamic population of India? Something like 20%?

[injin]

A 224-storey pyramid shaped building, the tallest in the world, is being built at Katangi, near Indian city of Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh state


I can see it now : with bamboo scaffolding and a wee bit much sand mixed into the concrete . Towering (briefly) over the impoverished countryside , a sparkling reminder to all of that which they can never hope for.

[garyhope]

Excuse me, but didn't Mr. Yogi die more than several years ago?

[kingu]

Ghads these articles don't translate well. Is that the scheduled ground breaking for the tower in India or when they plan on starting building it? I think that one was announced six years ago or something like that.

[sheik yerbouty]

"I am a monk: I have no pockets".

[nickcarraway]

No pockets, not no Swiss bank accounts.

[Antioch]

Geee.. What happened to the mega-cheese "Veda-Land" project?

[iowamark]

The Maharishi is still meditating at age 88.
It doesn't sound as though he is running out of cash, either.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

I'll bet the Maharishi's finished before the tower is.

[Analog Artist]

It looks great, could do away with a bit of flashiness.

[sukhoi-30mki]

about 12-14 percent-140 million or so.

[LAURENTIJ]

He wanted to build that sucker in The Colony, TX (you can't imagine how goofy that is if you're outside of the DFW area).

Not that far from me really. We'll see if he can ever pull this off.

[MinorityRepublican]

A 224-storey pyramid shaped building, the tallest in the world, is being built at Katangi, near Indian city of Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh state.

And this is not supposed to be a misprint?

[Cronos]

more like 11%

[mylife]

Oh he is still alive alright

[Elsie]

It's amazing that Man STILL has this DRIVE in him.........

 

 

Genesis 11

 

 1.  Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
 2.  As men moved eastward,  they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
 3.  They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
 4.  Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
 5.  But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
 6.  The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
 7.  Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
 8.  So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
 9.  That is why it was called Babel --because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.