ARCHITECTURE - Saudi Arabia To Be Permanent Member of Mile-High Club
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[QUOTE=ducky5;29088705] The tower will be built in the coastal city of Jeddah and is set to cost a whopping cost $30 billion.[/QUOTE]
Take a second to think of all the shit you could do with $30 billion. It's almost unfathomable...
If I remember correctly, Dubai is planning on building a few more towers that come close to the size of the burj khalifa. Dat oil money pays gooood.
NEW CHALLENGE:
Ascend and descend this structure as quickly as possible.
[QUOTE=Synelor;29091060]I read from somewhere that the Citadel is actually about 2.5 kilometers (+underground).[/QUOTE]
Thats a basement. Does not count.
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[QUOTE=.50 Cal;29097334]NEW CHALLENGE:
Ascend and descend this structure as quickly as possible.[/QUOTE]
Zip line.
Welp, this will officially mark the beginning of super-cities, I suppose.
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Kingdom Tower, the giant spikey penis of Saudi Arabia :v:
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[img]http://minorityfortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Xzibit.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Starpluck;29089097]The Saudi King did actually commit to the biggest reforms out of every Middle Eastern nation:
[URL]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110318/ap_on_bi_ge/ml_saudi_protests_3[/URL]
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The sweeteners include an [B]additional two months' wages for all government workers [/B]and [B]two extra payments for university students worth around $500[/B].
He raised the [B]monthly minimum wage to $800[/B] and announced a [B]monthly payment of around $260 to the country's unemployed.
[/B]The king set aside around [B]$70 billion to build 500,000 apartments for low-income residents.
He promised millions more capital for the government's housing loan fund [/B]and [B]raised the maximum loan for homes to around $130,000.[/B]
The king vowed to fight corruption with the creation of a new body answerable directly to him. [B]He promised billions for the health secto[/B]r — [U]announcing new research centers around the country, homes for medics and thousands of new hospital beds[/U]. He also promised an [B]extra $40 million for private hospitals[/B].
He also announced [B]60,000 new jobs[/B] in the security forces — a move that would employ huge numbers of otherwise jobless young men, while bolstering his kingdom's ability to snuff out protests.
The new swath of promises were the second series of sweeteners offered to Saudi residents. Earlier this month, the King ordered roughly [B]$37 billion [/B]to be pumped into various programs [B]targeting the oil kingdom's lower income population.[/B]
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Made my day.
God damn it, we could have done this back in the 50's
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illinois[/url]
[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;29088761]Weren't they already spending a bit too much, some time ago?
Silly Saudis, petrol is not unlimited, you know...[/QUOTE]
Their customers sure believe it is.
This is higher then the Dubai tower? :cringe:
[QUOTE=deathstarboot;29088789]But, why?[/QUOTE]
It's a way of showing how economically powerful they are, at least if my world geography class is to be believed. Most countries do this kind of thing occasionally.
Whoever lives on the top floor, when the day comes(and it will, it does for everybody) that their toilet overflows, it's gonna drip down liquidy poop floor to floor...for A MILE!
By the time it hits the first floor it will be filtered enough to drink! Self sustaining skyscrapers ftw!
I just hope it doesn't get discontinued halfway through the construction. We remember how that ended up last time.
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[QUOTE=SNNS-SEAN;29099233]I just hope it doesn't get discontinued halfway through the construction. We remember how that ended up last time.
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if anything that would actually be cooler. A mile high derelict tower would be so awesome.
[QUOTE=Ridge;29092323]
Saudi Arabia fucked nearly 3,000 people on 4 planes.[/QUOTE]
:doh:
[QUOTE=Lamar;29099927]if anything that would actually be cooler. A mile high derelict tower would be so awesome.[/QUOTE]
Fucking URBEX
[QUOTE=Starpluck;29089969]Just because it utilizes money doesn't makes it "absolute corrupt, bribery" Believe it or not, some reforms, like raising monthly unemployment checks/minimum wage/apartments for low-income residents e.g actually costs the government money.[/QUOTE]
I never called it bribery, nor did I call it corrupt.
I have no idea why you suggested that.
[QUOTE=Firefox42;29098954]God damn it, we could have done this back in the 50's
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illinois[/url][/QUOTE]
I think the 50's one looks cooler, more Citadel like than this one, if you ask me.
[QUOTE=johan_sm;29095769]Crush a plane into it[/QUOTE]
Gonna need a giant fist for that. :clint:
[QUOTE=Sh33p;29096228]Give me a shout when carbon nanotubes are practical.[/QUOTE]
At first I thought we should build a space elevator brute force style. Just use ridiculous amounts of steel and concrete. A fellow Facepuncher pointed out how unfeasible that was.
What if tried something more similar to a radio tower? Make a latticework tower out of aluminum and titanium and then keep it stable with several steel cables?
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[QUOTE=Lamar;29099927]if anything that would actually be cooler. A mile high derelict tower would be so awesome.[/QUOTE]
Maybe, but wouldn't floor after floor of office space and apartments just get repetitive?
Wouldn't the top of the tower wobble like crazy?
[QUOTE=MasterG;29105122]Wow, I had no idea. What a nice guy.[/QUOTE]
Regardless he's not a saint - it's likely he'll still be complicit in suppressing dissent in other GCC countries. What this shows is that he's got the capability to make such gestures - I'd like to go out on a limb and say he's doing it for that purpose.
OP, any source?
Also, I'll be scared shitless if I was the window cleaner.
They have the attention span of a 12 year old.
[QUOTE=MasterG;29105122]Wow, I had no idea. What a nice guy.[/QUOTE]
You get the freedom to do such great things when you are backed up by giant oil reserves.
[QUOTE=acidcj;29088811]How do you build a building that high? It's not like you can use cranes or something. I mean, how is it even possible to get the metal up there?[/QUOTE]
At least two cranes. They lift up stuff and build the building around them, and alternately lift each other a level up.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;29089097]The Saudi King did actually commit to the biggest reforms out of every Middle Eastern nation:
[URL]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110318/ap_on_bi_ge/ml_saudi_protests_3[/URL]
[release]
The sweeteners include an [B]additional two months' wages for all government workers [/B]and [B]two extra payments for university students worth around $500[/B].
He raised the [B]monthly minimum wage to $800[/B] and announced a [B]monthly payment of around $260 to the country's unemployed.
[/B]The king set aside around [B]$70 billion to build 500,000 apartments for low-income residents.
He promised millions more capital for the government's housing loan fund [/B]and [B]raised the maximum loan for homes to around $130,000.[/B]
The king vowed to fight corruption with the creation of a new body answerable directly to him. [B]He promised billions for the health secto[/B]r — [U]announcing new research centers around the country, homes for medics and thousands of new hospital beds[/U]. He also promised an [B]extra $40 million for private hospitals[/B].
He also announced [B]60,000 new jobs[/B] in the security forces — a move that would employ huge numbers of otherwise jobless young men, while bolstering his kingdom's ability to snuff out protests.
The new swath of promises were the second series of sweeteners offered to Saudi residents. Earlier this month, the King ordered roughly [B]$37 billion [/B]to be pumped into various programs [B]targeting the oil kingdom's lower income population.[/B]
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That's awesome! In this case i can see monarchy working really well over there
Could you imagine the elevator speed on that thing?
And shit, if there's a fire, I'd hate to evac from the top floor. Fuck going a mile down stairs
[QUOTE=Starpluck;29089097]The Saudi King did actually commit to the biggest reforms out of every Middle Eastern nation:
[URL]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110318/ap_on_bi_ge/ml_saudi_protests_3[/URL]
[release]
The sweeteners include an [B]additional two months' wages for all government workers [/B]and [B]two extra payments for university students worth around $500[/B].
He raised the [B]monthly minimum wage to $800[/B] and announced a [B]monthly payment of around $260 to the country's unemployed.
[/B]The king set aside around [B]$70 billion to build 500,000 apartments for low-income residents.
He promised millions more capital for the government's housing loan fund [/B]and [B]raised the maximum loan for homes to around $130,000.[/B]
The king vowed to fight corruption with the creation of a new body answerable directly to him. [B]He promised billions for the health secto[/B]r — [U]announcing new research centers around the country, homes for medics and thousands of new hospital beds[/U]. He also promised an [B]extra $40 million for private hospitals[/B].
He also announced [B]60,000 new jobs[/B] in the security forces — a move that would employ huge numbers of otherwise jobless young men, while bolstering his kingdom's ability to snuff out protests.
The new swath of promises were the second series of sweeteners offered to Saudi residents. Earlier this month, the King ordered roughly [B]$37 billion [/B]to be pumped into various programs [B]targeting the oil kingdom's lower income population.[/B]
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Only to save his own ass. Saudi laws are still backwards as shit.
I also wonder what all that money was being spent on earlier.
Still, a little better than before, so it's good for the people I suppose.
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