Jeddah - The Mile High Tower

[manman99 2]

yea thats understandable, but it never stopped LA or Frisco from building up. Or Seattle. The Japenese are smart, they cant come up with a method that is less expensive to build something tall??

[ngeeves 5]

Another thing is that it would be completely and utterably impractical! How quick do you think those elevators have to go and how many lifts do you reckon they would have to have to be able to carry poeple a mile high in the air and potentially stopping at every floor. Another thing! Europe doesn't need to compensate for anything! Why should somewhere like London need to build up when it can just redevelop somewhere such as the area of Docklands in the 70's and 80's.

[RichardMH 0]

They build it because they wanna do something Americans' havent done

[manman99 2]

RichardMH-Americans invented the skyscraper, they should be learning from our mistakes, achievements, etc. on we have done withh the skyscraper.

[Micah 16]

I thought it was the British who invented the skyscraper? No?

[manman99 2]

the first real skyscrapers, with innovateive technology(steel)and such was founded in the US

[skyliner22 16]

Originally posted by: manman99 yea thats understandable, but it never stopped LA or Frisco from building up. Or Seattle. The Japenese are smart, they cant come up with a method that is less expensive to build something tall??quote>

Well thats because although California is earthquake country, Japan is one of the most active places in the world, way more than California so that is why Japan doesnt build so high because earthquakes are way more frequent. Plus Japan is also in an area that is hit by Typhoons quite often unlike California where the worst are tropical storms.

As i learned in Oceanography, California is where two plates slide past each other where Japan is right near a subduction zone where the oceanic plate sinks below the continental creating more earthquakes of bigger magnitudes.

[dralin321 0]

what the... that. is. completely. a. waste. tacky too, just unbelievable.

[manman99 2]

skyliner22-sounds convincing to me!

[siso43 13]

i like the design of this building

[toxicpiano 125]

Originally posted by: Saint Andrew Ohhh boo-hoo hooo third world countries need our money.

I'd rather have more and more supertall building instead, its much more impressive and, as previously said, a symbol of power and success or whatever. You get it.

Europeans in general are wayyyy too left-leaning, of course they don't want tall buildings.quote>

What's wrong with left leaning? At least we care about our citizens.

[RichardMH 0]

manman99..

Not always do people care about what others have learned, they just wanna do something so the focus leaves from the American society (the religion - most of all) will be ignored, even if it's just for a day or two .

A good comparison is the space race between US and Russia.. Russia failed in that, but the Arabic society hasn't failed in this - yet. Besides, we are talking about a society filled with men at the ruling posts - you expect something else? Let the boys play and learn...

[AndisArt 2,068]

Looks out of place to me, hard to imagine such a height..

I saw on TV how there are developing new material for building high structures. The way they do it is they create strings and wattle them (don't remember the material), then they take that wattled string and wattle it again with another wattled string and so on. It's a system taken from nature. The outcome is a very flexibel yet very strong material which is way superior to concrete. It's ready for the market in a few years. Materials like this will make it possible soon to burst the limits of what we thought is possible to built.

In general the key to superhigh structures is to make it flexibel and adaptable to the environment. That's where the research is directed.

[JDRCRASH 53]

^ ^ ^

Correct.

On National Geographic's "Building the Impossible" series, creating a material to be firm enough to handle the forces of gravity bearing down on such a structure requires a formula that similar to Spider Webs.

[tohokingdom 0]

I think the reason why Tokyo doesn't build Supertall is because of all the tectonic activity over there.

The developers and the engineers and architects know that it's not worth the cost or the danger of having a super-tall structure in a very Earthquake prone region.

For example.

All for 1 day.

Yes, they may be small, but they still happen. This is directly East of Toyko in the Chiba prefecture.

Tokyo is long overdue for another massive Kanto type Earthquake.

--Nik

[Micah 16]

Originally posted by: JDRCRASH ^ ^ ^

Correct.

On National Geographic's "Building the Impossible" series, creating a material to be firm enough to handle the forces of gravity bearing down on such a structure requires a formula that similar to Spider Webs.quote>

 

The solution: Nanotechnology.

[classicsimcity4ever 0]

I don't want to insinuate anything. But I hope they don't build it. It will become the world's largest bullseye.