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08-04-2011, 12:36 PM
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Saudi Arabia Begins Construction of World's Tallest Building
Saudi Arabia is going to build the Kingdom Tower, which will be 1km tall, which will make it significantly taller than the current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
If you want to picture how tall that would be if it were constructed in downtown Vancouver, it would almost be as tall as the peak of Grouse Mountain, which is 1.2km.
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08-04-2011, 01:19 PM
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Looks awesome, it kinda reminds me of the citadel in half life2   | |
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08-04-2011, 02:44 PM
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how far up will it actually have floors that people can use? The Burj Khalifa top is nothing but storage.
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08-04-2011, 03:43 PM
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ya, it's insane. As a benchmark, the Shangri-La is only 201m tall. By no means is it a tall building, but imagine this behemoth being built here....
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08-04-2011, 04:01 PM
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So what is this? I googled up Kingdom Tower images and found this. edit: nevermind. Just found out this is actually called "Kingdom Centre"
Looks pretty cool but relatively puny.
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08-04-2011, 04:20 PM
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cool tower bro's but im more impressed with actual cool architecture rather than "my penis is smaller than yours but my tower is bigger" architecture. Posted via RS Mobile | |
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08-04-2011, 04:21 PM
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That's pretty damn awesome! What people often miss is that for a building that tall, the infrastructrue underground is always equally as impressive. Probably 3-400m deep parkade!
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08-04-2011, 05:09 PM
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I guess that's where the next Mission Impossible movie will be shot.
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08-04-2011, 05:13 PM
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there's always going to be a tallest building in the works
it's like a mulitnational penis size contest
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08-04-2011, 05:42 PM
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#12 | | what manner of phaggotry is this
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its ok vancouver, you still have that turd on top of the harbor center at 216meters that is slightly taller than that eyesore in calgary at 191 meters
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08-04-2011, 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by optiblue  That's pretty damn awesome! What people often miss is that for a building that tall, the infrastructrue underground is always equally as impressive. Probably 3-400m deep parkade! | Isnt it like the infrastructure has to be 1/4 or 1/3 the hight of the building...
Crazy deep though
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It's being designed by the same architect that designed the Burj Dubai. He was working for another firm for the first one, and his own firm this time.
My guess is he made some decent coin the first time, and now gets way more the second time out.
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08-05-2011, 08:22 AM
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There's prob so much thought put into it, in the case of natural disasters hitting the city and what not.
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08-05-2011, 08:33 AM
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Everytime I hear Kingdom tower or Kingdom Center I think of the jehova's witnesses lol
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08-05-2011, 08:48 AM
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08-05-2011, 09:16 AM
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Anyone else find it interesting that one of the investors is the Binladen Group? They're a huge Saudi company but I thought thought it was interesting they are involved in making the biggest tower in the world.
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08-05-2011, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by StealthFighter Anyone else find it interesting that one of the investors is the Binladen Group? They're a huge Saudi company but I thought thought it was interesting they are involved in making the biggest tower in the world. | Well the Binladen group is a very influential company over there, which was probably why they (publicly) denied all ties with Osama. Not good for business if one of your members is on the world's most wanted list... Lol. Posted via RS Mobile | |
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08-05-2011, 09:35 AM
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The BinLaden group has been around for a long time, way before Osama became famous. They hold most of the major construction projects in Saudi Arabia due to their strong ties with the government.
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08-05-2011, 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by RRxtar its ok vancouver, you still have that turd on top of the harbor center at 216meters that is slightly taller than that eyesore in calgary at 191 meters | The Bow @ 236 M
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It's going to be awesome when one of these 1KM tall buildings falls down one of these days.
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08-05-2011, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by CanadaGoose | i know the bow is taller (tallest in western canada) but its just funny to make fun of that piece of junk calgary tower that isnt even calgarys tallest building.
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08-05-2011, 03:31 PM
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relatedly and even surprizingly...
North Korea has picked up construction of that Ryugyong Hotel eyesore again.
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