Posted on 03/19/2008 6:23:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Dubai (AsiaNews/Agencies) – The Gulf States are racing for the tallest building and Saudi Arabia is planning an incredible mile-high skyscraper in the city of Jeddah for the “modest” sum of US$ 10 billion. News about the plan was reported by Middle East Economic Digest but a veil of secrecy covers the whole project, including the names of the building companies involved.
Kuwait has also unveiled a plan to build a 1,001-metre tower. Its height is a reference to the classic work of Arabic literature, One Thousand and One Nights.
The monumental tower will rise in the city of Subbiya on the northern border with Iraq and be completed by 2030.
A mosque, a church and a synagogue will be built near the top of the tower to signify the unity of the three monotheistic religions.
Such monumental projects are possible thanks to the rise in oil prices.
But whilst as building the planned towers might be engineering masterpieces, there are those who have doubts about their usefulness.
“These new projects push architecture and engineering to new limits, though it's also possible to create buildings and landmarks that aren't that high, but are viable and, most important, beautiful,” Allan Chamberlin, an Australian Dubai-based architect, told Agence France Presse.
In an environmentally-conscious age, many Gulf States have adopted laws requiring builders to meet high environmental standards in new mega-buildings. But Chamberlin still asks: “Do we really need to build it?”
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Yeah , right.
False unity.
Maybe we should send over some Southern Baptists to crash a couple of airliners into it....
solution, knock theirs down and ask them how it feels.
They could at least send us thank you notes when we fill up our SUV's with gas.
Tower of Babel II.
Great question. Same neighborhood, with the same reasoning and results perhaps?
Understand that the Amish are training pilots in clandestine flight schools. ;-)
Lets just hope it doesn’t fall and the people scatter around the whole earth. I’d just assume they stay there.
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:3-4)
The Lutherans are better pilots and the Methodists make a great flight crew.
It’ll probably be another Muslim that flies into it.
They want the kingdom out anyway!
Ever hear the story of the Tower of Babble. God struck it down. (as He will all man made folly)
The church and the synagogue will be built on the exterior of the tower with no access from inside.
Better yet, leave American alone period, and feed all those starving children in their own countries. Human ego is the absolute fall of man.
And the Saudi royal family will convert all three into mile-high brothels.
Now doubt we Christians are planning to ram a few airplanes full of people into this new mile-high building.
Once the building is christened, two large planes will be flown into the church and the synagogue....
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