Saudi Arabia is looking to build the world's tallest tower and so beat the 1km mark.
http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08...88_466x634.jpg
I'm sure the views will be amazing, but its going to make a big mark if it falls over.
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Saudi Arabia is looking to build the world's tallest tower and so beat the 1km mark.
http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08...88_466x634.jpg
I'm sure the views will be amazing, but its going to make a big mark if it falls over.
More here
Looks very futuristic, but I don't think I'd be to keen on going inside (in the incredibly unlikely event that I would voluntarily travel to Saudi Arabia).
Why not? You're totally dressed for it! ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
I do wonder what my limit would be...I've been to the viewing room at the Sears Tower, and didn't much care for it. Not sure I'd go much higher.
Been to the Sears Tower, on the roof of WTC several times before 9/11 and the Empire State Building of course. I would probably enjoy the view but I also don't see myself going to Saudi ever.
Wow, how'd you get to the roof of the WTC? The roof, really? Nothing but sky over your head?
PBS's Nova science show had an episode on supertall skyscrapers a few years back. What I most remember was an engineer saying there's no practical upper limit to height anymore, if price is no object.
I was under the impression that they had run out of money and all the workers had gone home unpaid?
Yeah, that's neat and all, but Saudi Arabia needs to stop doing things.
It was pretty amazing. Both the WTC and the RCA* building would let you on the roofs. Up on the Tower, the winds were really strong. It was a little scary to be honest.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
* I think the RCA building is now called the GE building. It is the very tall building at Rockefeller Center.
That's really cool. My sister's then-boyfriend worked for awhile in the Eighties at Windows on the World, the restaurant on one of the top WTC floors, and it was an unforgettable (now bittersweet) experience for him.
My favorite still-unbuilt ultratall building: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illinois
The view from the Rockefeller Centre is amazing, beautiful. I wanna go to the top of Burj Khalifa sometime in Dubai. Eiffel Tower was great too, although it's not all that high.
Fuckin' A! The thing that got to me was that the damn WTC building swayed in the wind! Your drink sloshed around in your cup as the building moved. The view from the top floor was spectacular, but there was no way i was going on the roof. (Now, of course, I wish I had. :( )Quote:
Originally posted by What Exit?It was pretty amazing. Both the WTC and the RCA* building would let you on the roofs. Up on the Tower, the winds were really strong. It was a little scary to be honest.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
* I think the RCA building is now called the GE building. It is the very tall building at Rockefeller Center.
Can't say that I like the skin tag / unusable helipad.
When I was a kid, my parents had some friends who lived in the John Hancock building in Chicago, no where near the top...maybe on the 50-something floor? I remember two things about it...one, that there were clouds obscuring the view to the ground, and two, that the water in the toilet was moving. Crazy.Quote:
Originally posted by TuckerfanFuckin' A! The thing that got to me was that the damn WTC building swayed in the wind! Your drink sloshed around in your cup as the building moved. The view from the top floor was spectacular, but there was no way i was going on the roof. (Now, of course, I wish I had. :( )Quote:
Originally posted by What Exit?It was pretty amazing. Both the WTC and the RCA* building would let you on the roofs. Up on the Tower, the winds were really strong. It was a little scary to be honest.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
* I think the RCA building is now called the GE building. It is the very tall building at Rockefeller Center.
You don't have to go too high up for the winds to be scary. I once went to the top of the Perry Monument in Lake Erie. The wind blew HARD, and it's only about 350 feet high. I don't think I'd do open air on the top of a building as high as the WTC was.
Yeah, that does look kind of pointless and breaks up the lines of the building.Quote:
Originally posted by Muffin
Sounds like they need a tuned mass damper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuned_m...ted_structuresQuote:
Originally posted by Sarahfeena
You could have a picnic out there ...Quote:
Originally posted by SarahfeenaYeah, that does look kind of pointless and breaks up the lines of the building.Quote:
Originally posted by Muffin
Strangely I was on the roof of the WTC once (not sure when, but maybe around 1992) and all I remember was thinking "gosh, it's crowded up here ... so many people ...". I wish I'd paid more attention :(
The CN Tower will let you lean off the edge of it's roof at 1,168 feet above the big splat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iikXiH9QszU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iikXiH9QszU