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2008-06-18 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Bobby 2008-06-18 06:46|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Also - One World Trade Center in New York, also known as the Freedom Tower, from Silverstein Properties and designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, comes in at No. 11, at a symbolic 1,776 feet.

Posted by Bobby 2008-06-18 06:52|| 2008-06-18 06:52|| Front Page Top

#2 In 1965, a United Nations report predicted that the world's population would rise to 5.7 billion by 1995. It did.

Yeah, and all these skyscrapers are being built with OUR money. Stupid stupid petroleum addiction.

Posted by gromky 2008-06-18 11:39|| 2008-06-18 11:39|| Front Page Top

#3 When I read about these Dubai towers built on sand islands reclaimed from the sea... I just can't get that old spiritual song out of my mind...
The wise man built his house upon the rock.....

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-18 12:49|| 2008-06-18 12:49|| Front Page Top

#4 3dc, as I said earlier, it's the ultimate in glass houses, y'know?

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-06-18 14:50|| 2008-06-18 14:50|| Front Page Top

#5 The ground transportation for the 160 floor building in Dubai would require complicated and bizarre efforts to service if they really expected they would fill it. Frankly, I think a lot of it will be empty offices.

The proposed Talel tower building would require, in addition to the ground service problem, at least three banks of elevators to get a person to the top. It will also require a huge massively reinforced foundation slab. Finally, it will require the bottom floors to withstand compressive loads that are off the chart.

and then there is the terrorism magnet problem

Posted by mhw 2008-06-18 16:32|| 2008-06-18 16:32|| Front Page Top

#6 How many of the units will ever be occupied? I'm thinking in terms of all those empty apartment blocks in Saudi Arabia, where the Bedouin won't live below another family for some reason. There are worse ways to throw away money than for ego.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-18 16:33|| 2008-06-18 16:33|| Front Page Top

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