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Burj Dubai Tower Half a Mile High
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Wow, that is seriously, seriously tall. I mean, the Sky Tower here in Auckland at 1,076 feet / 328 meters I thought was tall, this is just friggin nuts, its one major of an engineering challenge. I wonder how much itll sway in the wind at the top, very scary stuff. And what happened to practicalities, do they actually need an excessively tall building? I mean another even taller building is going to built next week.
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There are many different ways to destroy something other than flying a plane into it. I'm not saying it will happen, but IMO, since it is the middle east, it is almost bound to happen given their history of bombings and whatnot. It just seems like a semi-shaky idea to me.
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well VTGT, you made it sound like it was susceptible (sp?) to terrorist attack just because it was tall.
anyway.....
soon, developing countries will all be developed, and all their architectural technology will far exceed our own. then, we can start building juggernaut towers, which will redefine skyscrapers as sky-piercers (or something...lol)
those will be the days when our cities resemble the ones in ghost in the shell and crap.
lol.
anyway.....
soon, developing countries will all be developed, and all their architectural technology will far exceed our own. then, we can start building juggernaut towers, which will redefine skyscrapers as sky-piercers (or something...lol)
those will be the days when our cities resemble the ones in ghost in the shell and crap.
lol.
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As several people have said, building extremely tall buildings are mostly a matter of demonstrating economic power, not so much economic practicality. Once you get above about 75-80 stories, they only make economic sense when you factor in prestige in the rent. I can't imagine that Dubai is so built up that real estate has value like it does in, say, Hong Kong or Tokyo or Manhattan. They just have a lot of money to spend, and they're enjoying spending it.
It looks very much like Frank Lloyd Wright's "Mile High" design from the '50s. He envisioned a very deep foundation going down into bedrock to stabilize an enoprmous skyscraper.
It looks very much like Frank Lloyd Wright's "Mile High" design from the '50s. He envisioned a very deep foundation going down into bedrock to stabilize an enoprmous skyscraper.
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Holy molley! thats amazing!
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Nah. There needs to be some steel in there. It'd never stay up if it were wholly cow.
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In case anyone is interested, the world's tallest structures, taken from wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_tallest_structures#Tallest_structures
This building would be one huge mofo. And, it would finally dethrone the CN Tower as the world's tallest freestanding structure (A title it's held since 1976). It seems Toronto will have one less thing to be proud of in the years to come!
There are also plans to build a solar tower (used for energy production) in Australia, which will be a staggering 1km in height! The plan has been deemed feasible by engineers, all they are waiting for is proper financial backing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_tallest_structures#Tallest_structures
This building would be one huge mofo. And, it would finally dethrone the CN Tower as the world's tallest freestanding structure (A title it's held since 1976). It seems Toronto will have one less thing to be proud of in the years to come!
There are also plans to build a solar tower (used for energy production) in Australia, which will be a staggering 1km in height! The plan has been deemed feasible by engineers, all they are waiting for is proper financial backing.
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I seriously doubt there will be any more really really tall buildings in the US due to 9/11. Not unless real estate prices get insane or building materials get really cheap.
You guys can talk about the likelyhood of an aircraft being flown into a building again all you want, but I think at this point the US is willing to let someone else have the tallest building. I doubt anyone in New York or Chicago or any other major cities would want to take the chance of becoming a target.
You guys can talk about the likelyhood of an aircraft being flown into a building again all you want, but I think at this point the US is willing to let someone else have the tallest building. I doubt anyone in New York or Chicago or any other major cities would want to take the chance of becoming a target.
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There was some billionaire guy from India who was planning to build the tallest building in the world. Some sort of enormous skyscraper which would be a temple of some sort to Vedic Hinduism or something. I don't know whatever came of it. I remember seeing an architect's sketch of what it would look like.Flerbizky
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