mile high Kingdom Tower ...

[Telstra]

According to the diagram, it looks skinner like a pencil.
Is it safe ?

 

[pat grimshaw]

It is the Tower of Babel !!!!!!

 

[palbert]

Before I saw where it was I thought it was for Jehovah's Witnesses; but that's a Kingdom Hall.

 

[swerve]

A spacecraft waiting for the countdown!!!

AWESOME!!!

 

[nycguydowntown]

Can't say it doesn't bother me a little that arab countries are the only ones who can build a tall building without worrying about it being crashed into---

 

[zoltanspawn]

Will it really be built?

 

[Yuki Sohma]

WoW

 

[frankfrank]

CHICAGO SPIRE? That's news to me. I assume not built yet, but just projected, as I'd think I would know about it.

nycguydowntown: hmmm...interesting irony. Or something. Definitely food for thought.

 

[Telstra]

Will it really be built?

It is approved and ready to be built.

 

[zoltanspawn]

It is approved and ready to be built.

Things are subject to change. It may be built, or it may not.

If built, it sure will be pointy.

 

[Love me 2]

It is the Tower of Babel !!!!!!

That was what I was thinking! I don't think a building that tall is safe.

 

[Love me 2]

Things are subject to change. It may be built, or it may not.

If built, it sure will be pointy.

Just don't fall out of an airplane and get literally stuck on it, or ripping you apart to the four winds!

 

[pat grimshaw]

The Tower of Babel brought chaos to the nations.

 

[Swellegant]

Ridiculous. And ugly. But boys will be boys.

 

[Telstra]

They should use the money to make a better place and more freedom there,
then the tourist will go to visit.

 

[star-warrior]

I thought the Jehovah's Witnesses were going to be building a place to have sexual relations in whilst tripping out on their preaching.

 

[Scealle]

Looks scary tbh. Wouldn't want to go in such building.

 

[T-Rexx]

The commentator in the video, Jon Paula, is an idiot.

He complains about "the stupidity of human achievement."

Sorry, but human achievement is NOT stupid.

 

[T-Rexx]

BTW, the reason the top 80 proposed floors are for "alternate energy generation" is because they are too small to be useful as commercial space.

These very high buildings taper gradually as they rise. That means the top third of the building (or so) is very narrow and the floors are too small to be useful as commercial space. The top 20 to 30 floors of the Burj Dubai are not occupied space. They exist only to give height to the building.

 

[gsdx]

Has anyone else read about Frank Lloyd Wright's design of the mile-high 'The Illinois'?

Given Wright’s disdain for crowded cities, an enormous skyscraper might seem like an odd project for the architect. But he viewed the idea as “a necessary step” toward the decentralization that his Broadacre City plan would bring.

He explained, “The Mile High would absorb, justify, and legitimatize the gregarious instinct of humanity … and would mop up what now remains of urbanism.” Employees working in the Mile High are surrounded by green space rather than the typical mob of towers and are freed from overcrowding, pollution, and traffic as cars and helicopters transport them easily into the natural landscape.

Wright’s colossus, which reflects an ambition to build higher and higher that’s as old as the Tower of Babel, continues to challenge architects contemplating high-rise buildings in urban environments.

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