August 21, 2008

The world's tallest skyscraper is nearly completed. High-res photos taken from above that could possibly take your breath away.
posted by tracicle 16 years ago
  • Kind of reminds me of Minas Tirith.
  • Something that tall and big must be a mighty tempting target for terrorists. Why you looking at me like that?
  • And base jumpers!
  • I don't quite get it, though, outside of bragging rights. With that much desert around, you could build a low-rise office building the size of Jersey.
  • Even the pics gave me vertigo. Terrifying! Tower of Babel anyone?
  • Oh drat! Ever since the Sears Tower went up I've been confident that my winkie was heftier and more impressive than any Dubaiian man's winkie. Now I'm going to have to rethink that.
  • Looks like the final shot in the opening movie for Civilization III.
  • So, the big crane will take down the small crane. And then what, huge helicopters to take down the big crane? For years I have wanted to know how they take the cranes away, once the tall buildings have been built.
  • I wonder if it has a tuned mass damper.
  • It takes a crane to build a crane.
  • Yes, but it can be the same crane. Tons of stuff here too.
  • They'll need a crane They'll need a crane To pick the broken ruins up again...
  • Reminds me so much of the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea. Funny that the Dubai skyscraper is almost finished, while the North Korean building has had that crane on it for 16 years.
  • I've often wondered what a building would look like if it stretched off to eternity. Even if a tower was infinitely tall, and you were looking at it from like a mile away, there would still be a point in the sky that looked like the top. I can't imagine what it would look like.
  • The bigger they are...
  • Thinking about just the plumbing in that thing makes me queasy. Anybody here ever eat at Windows on the World? Never could enjoy a meal when the WTC swayed, which it did, quite visibly, in a stiff wind. This monkey stays on terra firma, thank you very much.