Saudi Arabia’s Mile High Tower
HOLIDAY reps, tired businessmen and Ralph Fiennes listen up: there are plans to build a mile-high tower in Saudi Arabia.
As the Telegraph reports, the Mile High Tower will be double the height of its nearest rival and almost seven times the height of London’s Canary Wharf tower.
The tower will also be higher than New York’s New Freedom Tower, which is just 2,296ft high.
The Mile High Tower will stand at a height of 5,250ft.
What will be at the top is not detailed.
But Anorak expects to find a small toilet cubicle stuffed full of well seasoned plane spotters, bearded men and other enthusiasts…
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June 14th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=6§ion=0&article=115403&d=13&m=10&y=2008
April 1st, 2008 at 4:13 am
When an earthquake strikes, the tower will disappear into the sand very quietly. Don’t think SA think deeply about anything much these days.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:27 am
It’s never been a question of “if” a tower like this could be built using modern international engineering (glad to see an American design firm is engineering in this case, Bechtel),but who the heck would pay for it. I guess stables for the princes’s and his fellow princes’s human chattel, their wives and emptyheaded offspring, is what it’s going to be. It is what these “oh so clever” arabs value most, their bloodlines, afterall. But maybe they know something we don’t, as has proven to be the case so often in the past, such as when. ..uh, um..they..uh…oh, well. Anyhow, glad they’re using their windfall to advance our western technology. Once the first one is built as the testbed, perhaps the technologies from this economy of scales will be applied to something really worthwhile, such as Frank Lloyd Wrights ambitions plans which have been waiting in the wings for so long and which, from the standpoint of design gives this thing all the appeal of a hood ornament on a 1963 Studebaker…which I love, but really…really. Or better yet, the mile high geodesic dome of R. Buckminster Fuller with all the truly worthwhile benefits that are so lacking in this impressive but other than that, uninteresting design. Any chance we can get ‘em to plate it in gold? That’d really show the rest of the world who they’re dealing with.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:47 am
Hi Billy,
Nice to hear from you. I think Billy that there are plenty of Arabs who have paid birds from around the world(including Brazil) to move their bodies around on large beds in fancy hotels and posh houses in London.
Whatever are the laws in Saudi Arabia, they often don’t seem to apply when they are abroad.Money talks and “morals” walk.
Regards,
JOHN
March 31st, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Evening Billy
March 31st, 2008 at 6:15 pm
….Blakey….one thing you will never see on a Saudi Street is a bevvy of beauties shakin their booty at a Mardi Gras….like the birds in Brazil…..unless you happen to be a Saudi Prince.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Bloody hell Blakey! ssshhhh! do’nt go shouting your mouth off about equal rights for women!
March 31st, 2008 at 5:25 pm
In the room at the top people from around the world shouting out of the windows…………….WHERE THE BLOODY HELL IS GG ?!!!!
P.S A bird flying by gives the answer..(He`s stuck in a police toilet back in the UK)
March 31st, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Any Suggestions ?? who will be the first to join the one mile high club ?
Imagine needing to get to the top when the lift’s broken
March 31st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
There will be a big sign saying ‘Shit we’re 30 feet short of a mile’
March 31st, 2008 at 2:11 pm
If only Saudi Arabia placed such huge importance on human rights as it does on huge buildings . The only country in the world that is named after a family.
The USA and Britain will always want to be on close terms as long as their oil is around.No oil equals NO interest.What will be at the top of the 5,250ft tower? Maybe, Saudi women in a large room asking for equal rights.