The First Image of the World’s New Tallest Building - Polidicks

[QUOTE] [IMG]http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/08/building-comparison-gizmodo.jpg[/IMG] This is the first image of what's going to become the tallest building in the world by the end of the decade: The 3,280-foot ([I]one kilometer![/I]) Kingdom Tower. It will dwarf the 2,717-foot (828-meter) [URL="http://gizmodo.com/5038788/tallest-skyscraper-in-the-world-almost-completed-defies-belief"]Burj Khalifa.[/URL]Take a look. Until now, there was only one blurry [URL="http://gizmodo.com/5790505/saudi-arabia-to-be-permanent-member-of-mile+high-club"]generic sketch[/URL]. This image is an actual rendering of the finished tower. According to Chicago's Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, the building's designers, construction will begin imminently. The foundation plans are now complete and "the piling for the tower is currently being tendered" in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, near the Red Sea. Mindblowing statistics The Kingdom Tower's numbers are impressive. The building itself will take a staggering $1.2 billion to build, "while the cost of the entire Kingdom City project is anticipated to be $20 billion," said AS+GG. The massive 3,280-foot spire will house a 5.7 million square feet (530,000 square meters) space and will beat the Burj by "at least 568 feet" (173 meter). It will have a Four Seasons hotel, a Four Seasons apartment area, office space, luxury condos and the world's highest observatory. [IMG]http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/08/kingdom-tower-from-the-water.jpg[/IMG] There will be 59 elevators, 54 single-deck and five double-deck, along with 12 escalator distributed through the Kingdom Tower. The elevators going up to the observatory deck will travel at 10 meters per second. That's 22.3 miles per hour. It will take you [I]one minute and forty seconds[/I] to reach the top of the tower. There's even an outdoor space at the top of the spire which will be used by the penthouse floor at level 157. You can see it sticking out in the rendering, 98 feet (30 meters) in diameter. While it will still not reach Frank Lloyd Wright's never-built dream of the Mile High Illinois, its hard-edged, sightly asymmetrical design reminds me more of Wright's sketches than the rounded Burj Khalifa ever did. [/QUOTE] I'm terrified of heights..... I'm pretty sure this would kill me.

yeah i'm terrifed of hates too I want everyone to love me!!!! [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Snipe/Dumb" - daijitsu))[/highlight]

Imagine skydiving down from it.

i hate both of you

Fuck off with all these big-ass buildings.

[img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_R8h-k5pUN2s/S--JBGP8aTI/AAAAAAAAABo/LDWPVFnQ_T8/s1600/halflife2_citadel1.jpg[/img] ??

[QUOTE=TehWoodPcker;31490650][img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_R8h-k5pUN2s/S--JBGP8aTI/AAAAAAAAABo/LDWPVFnQ_T8/s1600/halflife2_citadel1.jpg[/img] ??[/QUOTE] First thing that came to my mind as well when I saw [img]http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/08/kingdom-tower-from-the-water.jpg[/img]

Guess what, i bet it will be hardly used too.

how long before we get galaxy scrapers? [img]http://utunlimited.beyondunreal.com/wp-content/gallery/dm-morpheus-converted-by-sphyncter/dm-morpheus-001.jpg[/img] all we need then is a tournament of unreal proportions

It's things like this that remind me of the fact we're in the future right now.

christ that's massive

What if you throw a penny off it?

Is there even a point to the tip of the building other then to make it taller? Unless I'm looking at the proportions wrong and it's actually thicker then I'm imagining.

I don't understand why people feel the need to make a building so fucking big. There's no way they're going to need all of that space in there. It's just a waste of time and money.

I will never ever ever enter one of these super-tall buildings. I'm not afraid of heights, I just hate stuff that is infinite.

[QUOTE=Wootman;31490774]What if you throw a penny off it?[/QUOTE] No different than the empire state building. It will reach terminal velocity just like anything else.

So what happens when they run out of oil to fund this project?

This building would work better in cities like New York.

[QUOTE=kimr120;31490982]This building would work better in cities like New York.[/QUOTE] You might as well paint it red and white and put "AIM HERE" on the side of it.

it's not [I]that[/I] big.

[QUOTE=pie_is_good;31491009]it's not [I]that[/I] big.[/QUOTE] What would you consider big than?

[QUOTE=ccg;31491045]What would you consider big than?[/QUOTE] his waist size :v:

Surely it won't be the world's heighest observatory, don't they have loads of telescopes on the tops of mountains?

That dagger in the ground looks so out of place, if there arent other buildings even close to that height there they should stop building it. It's like making a tower in a little farm village.

[QUOTE=ccg;31491045]What would you consider big than?[/QUOTE] bigger

[QUOTE=Atlascore;31491178]Why are all these Arab countries wasting all their money building massive skyscrapers no one will use? They should be spending their money improving the country, or stockpiling it so when they run out of oil they're not bankrupt too.[/QUOTE] While they should, its Saudi Arabia. When have the royalty there ever saved their money? When has royalty ever saved their money?

Build a Bender Statue [img]http://images.wikia.com/en.futurama/images/1/1b/Bender%27srobot.jpg[/img]

Can't wait for the day their oil runs out, then they'll be the proud owners of the biggest Airsoft arenas ever.

[QUOTE=Atlascore;31491178]Why are all these Arab countries wasting all their money building massive skyscrapers no one will use? They should be spending their money improving the country, or stockpiling it so when they run out of oil they're not bankrupt too.[/QUOTE] We're talking about people who write their names in the sand so they're visible from space, for no reason other then to find a money sink. It's kinda like with China and it's ghost cities, but far more noticeable.

Imagine a fire going off in there.