ARCHITECTURE - Saudi Arabia To Be Permanent Member of Mile-High Club
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[QUOTE=Noth;29107606]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]
The top floors should just have parachutes :v:
also
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2034 News : Today, the worst disaster in the history of Saudi Arabia has happened. The highest skyscraper in the country hit the Moon.
[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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There revolution in the ME, it's Shush money , nothing more, nothing less.
interesting post from another forum on the same topic
[quote]Jeddah:
-- Poor as fuck.
-- Economy is dying thanks to government monopoly thats biased towards Riyadh.
-- Streets have a bajillion potholes.
-- Hundreds die every year thanks to floods and a lack of an actual sewage system (oh and the manholes that only covered dirt was a nice touch you corrupt cockbags)
-- Has the most shocking lack of maintenance of any public facility or park or area ever seen.
-- Houses collapsing thanks to poor building regulations and randomized housing.
-- Fourth world Infrastructure.
-- trash is everywhere.
-- The seafront is basically a garbage dump that's cleaned only through the efforts of the people in town.
-- Has sub saharan african levels of poverty running amok thanks to no jobs or SME's or anything decent in town.
-- Poor as fuck.
Their Solution:
Waste 26 billion for a useless tower. of which 24 is probably pocketed rather than actually used.
Really Jeddah has some great things going for it and it's the history that hasnt been demolished yet, the seafront, the food, and wonderful variety of people there and the fact that is has one of the only Coffee Places in the entire country where men and women can sit together. but it's such a shame that a place like that has the makings of a great city is treated so poorly by the authorities thanks to their provincialism.
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As cool as that tower is I just wish it wasn't Saudi Arabia that was building it. They should be using that money for much better things.
Shut up. Nothing beats a really high tower.
[QUOTE=Ridge;29092323]Saudi Arabia fucked nearly 3,000 people on 4 planes.[/QUOTE]
I hope he used a condom
I have got to say I like the structure on that picture. It looks pretty awesome.
I do however find it pretty silly to build that high, it does get pointless.
[QUOTE=nikomo;29094628]I don't know about how they get resources up there, but I know that there's special cranes built for this kind of stuff.
You set up the crane on top of the building, you use that to build the current floor, you setup the beams for the next floor for the crane, after that motors power the crane up a floor and then you repeat that.
Floor, up, floor, up.[/QUOTE]
What I've seen they have at least two cranes, build up around them and then they lift each other up to a higher newly built corner, alternately. No need for special beams and motors.
[QUOTE=TehMentos;29109590]I have got to say I like the structure on that picture. It looks pretty awesome.
I do however find it pretty silly to build that high, it does get pointless.[/QUOTE]
It's not pointless at all. In fact, it's quite pointy.
I wanna see it fall over
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