New tallest building

[Guest]

...and it's no where near being finished. This building is just insane. It will be about a half mile high when completed (2600ft expected). The US has some tall buildings coming as well such as the Fordham Spire in Chicago and the Freedom Tower in New York. Nothing this tall though.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/22/dubai.building.ap/index.html

[mudflaps]

tall building in the middle east.... hmm i smell a bit of revenge.

[h0lmes]

tall building in the middle east.... hmm i smell a bit of revenge.

You know, I was going to say something about that but I thought I would keep my mouth shut. I wouldn't want the Muhammad Jihad Intelligence Agency on my ass.

[LINUS]

Insane is right - maybe just my small town mentality, but I just don't get the allure of this type of thing. I see going up in places where you literally have no way of going out any longer - but I sure wouldn't want to be to far off ol' Terra Firma as a usual part of my work week or home address.

Cool engineering anyhow.

[Yakinho]

That building is solid. Dubai has very interesting taste, and entirely too much money. The seven star hotel is quite nice though...

[atomic]

they have to build it that tall in dubai since it will be on sand and by the time it sinks into the sand it will only be about 150 feet tall. LOL Dubai actually is doing everything it can to set up for tourism since their oil reserves are going to run out by 2015 I think and when it does they realized they needed to have the infrastructure in place to draw huge money tourism into their country. The even have buily huge islands with home and such on them and even the worlds largest indoor snow ski slope amoungst other things

[Jon325i]

tall building in the middle east.... hmm i smell a bit of revenge.

You said it, not me :-P

Jon

[george graves]

I think I'd take a parachute to work if I worked there.

[JJe30]

Crazy

[Bimmerboy91]

I think I'd take a parachute to work if I worked there.

+1

and after a long days work just go to the top and sky dive down into the parting lot or maybe in to your e30 james bond style8), if you got a cabby. if not, have your sun roof open and if your skinny enough, slide right on in.

[hugh jass]

who would want to go to dubai for a vacation? hotter and more expensive than vegas but without the gambling and liquor. that spells fun!

[doucy2]

just read about that last night, they probably don't even have enough people working there to fill it, ha!

[Il Duce]

tall building in the middle east.... hmm i smell a bit of revenge.

How can you really think this? The tower isn't in Afghanistan, or Iraq for that matter.

How can you say that you want thousands of innocent people to die like that? Assholes like you (I tried to remain from name-calling, but I just can't help myself because that's what you are, a fucking asshole.) are part of the reason why the rest of the world hates us.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you know NO middle-eastern people at all. In fact, I'm willing to bet money. FYL.

[rwh11385]

just read about that last night, they probably don't even have enough people working there to fill it, ha!

you are a moron. dubai is one of the world's fastest growing economic areas

http://www.dubaimegaprojects.com/the_world.html

even more baller than the building

[stevofthahill]

Dubai is becoming the big swinging dick of ballingness.