Burj Tower, Dubai

[Dr Mordrid]

Your petrodollars at work

800 meters (2,640 feet), 160 floors & a total floor space of 500,000 sq/m (5.35 million sq/ft). To be completed by 2008;

[agallag]

If this actually gets built, it's going to be the first to surpass our CN Tower.

There's a Discovery program that gets run about once a week about all the huge towers currently being built. The lead engineer for the Burj seems like a total knob.

[TransformX]

This needle is going to be nothing short of amazing..

[Nowhere]

Well agallag, they're already building it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai

And there's a contender in the same area...also only minimum heigh is known, with rumors of 1km

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Burj

[Jammrock]

Talk about a large target ...

[KvHagedorn]

Nice target for an airliner crash.

[KvHagedorn]

ha.. GMTA

[Greebe]

There's a Discovery program that gets run about once a week about all the huge towers currently being built. The lead engineer for the Burj seems like a total knob.

hehe you noticed that too!

[Nowhere]

Jamm, KvH, after all when learning this it's better to start with big & easy...

[agallag]

Well agallag, they're already building it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai

Huh... I didn't realize they'd actually started on it. Cool. The CN Tower sure had a good run though.

[SpiralDragon]

big ****ing deal.... trust me.. here its all about aperances.. who has the best.. the bigest .. the most.... at the end of the day its just another tower of babel..... the lesson was not earned the first time and it has not been learned yet.... sadly... arogance still prevails....

[Nowhere]

I guess that's the sole purpose of such structures...

Another one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madinat_al-Hareer

[Jammrock]

The middle east is going through the same phase as the US did in the 70's/80's. My phalanx symbol is bigger than your phalanx symbol! If this keeps up the radical muslims are going to start bombing the middle east (besides Isreal) to stop this evil captialism that is spreading across Islam.

Here's a smaller tower, but they're sticking it in Mecca. Just goes to show that no one is immune to money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraj_Al_Bait_Towers

[schmosef]

Cheap labour in Dubai: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/webl...22572&only&rss

[KRSESQ]

The middle east is going through the same phase as the US did in the 70's/80's. My phalanx symbol is bigger than your phalanx symbol! If this keeps up the radical muslims are going to start bombing the middle east (besides Isreal) to stop this evil captialism that is spreading across Islam.

I think the word you're looking for is "phallic."

wiki "phalanx"

Kevin