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Mile High Tower in Saudi Arabia

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Mile-high tower: Saudi prince promises £5bn desert spire TWICE as tall as nearest rival being built
By BARRY WIGMORE -

Last updated at 12:15pm on 31st March 2008

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On a clear day, the view from the top will take in the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian Ocean - providing you've a head for heights.



Plans for a mile-high tower in the Saudi Arabian desert have been unveiled by the billionaire owner of London's Savoy Hotel.

At 5,250ft, the £5billion project, masterminded by two British engineering consultancies, will be twice as high as its nearest rivals, skyscrapers under construction in Dubai and Kuwait, and almost seven times as high as the Canary Wharf tower in London's Docklands.
 
Frank Lloyd Wright had plans drawn up for a tower exactly one mile high along Chicago's lakeshore area. It would have been at least 10 city blocks wide, and had a capacity of over 100,000 people to live and work in. Obviously, it never got built.
 
WDAE-FM101 said:
Mile-high tower: Saudi prince promises £5bn desert spire TWICE as tall as nearest rival being built
By BARRY WIGMORE -
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With that flat terrain - one wonders how many square miles of desert one needs to cover with a population density less than one person per square mile. Unless camels listen to radio.

It is a phallic symbol - it is no wonder to me that the infidels crashed planes into TWIN towers, two phallic symbols would never do - to them it seemed we had twice the manhood. Never mind that the owners would probably have domolished the towers themselves in a few years because they weren't designed to support high bandwidth internet. To us they weren't phallic symbols, but to the infidels they were.

So now - they have to build the ultimate phallic symbol a mile high. I supposed there will be a "height war" to see which Saudi prince has the tallest structure.
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
So now - they have to build the ultimate phallic symbol a mile high. I supposed there will be a "height war" to see which Saudi prince has the tallest structure.
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That's been going on for years. In Riyadh, there are two towers that competed to be the tallest building in the Middle East: Kingdom Centre (992 ft.) and the Al Faisaliyah Center (876 ft.). Each is at a different end of Riyadh and each was built by a Saudi prince. Both look woefully out of place in an otherwise low-slung city.

Now, all are being surpassed in Dubai - so they feel the need to outdo each other yet again. This time, with the world's tallest building (by far). Yes, a pure ego trip that is not driven by any need in the marketplace. Can you imagine what a target such a building would be for al Qaida? If there's anyone they have a bigger beef with than the US and Israel, it's the Saudi royal family.

Anyhow, it would be one hell of a transmitter site. Too bad that formats are pretty limited in the kingdom....
 
It would be a great place to put a wireless Internet ISP. It could cover the whole region with Wi-max.
 
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