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Dubai is getting another tall building higher than the current world's tallest
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Dash_Riprock
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Part of me can't wait till the oil money runs out just to see what happens to all those buildings.
You mean slaves, right?
You mean slaves, right?
nightmare-slain
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looks horrible.
paradise_circus
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Dubai almost has no oil. The city is just a huge real estate bubble.
Coreda
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I don't know, they seem pretty passionate. On a 1-100 scale of aroused to Christ on the cross I'd say they're around a 84.5.
-Pyromaniac-
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In the future when the world becomes a JRPG, Dubai is going to be that desolated city you visit where you hear tales about mans aspiration to build and further civilization or something from the random NPCs who decided to stick around.
SneakyStephan
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Looks amazing.
This could have been a great thread thread to read about big skyscrapers all around the world.
Instead OP himself instantly derailed it
This could have been a great thread thread to read about big skyscrapers all around the world.
Instead OP himself instantly derailed it
That's a fun reference.
Silent Chief
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I'd actually pay to see that. As long as he doesn't wear a harness.
Milly Osworth
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That's a very big oil penis.
That looks amazing.
Can't really ever fully appreciate it though, due to the labour conditions...
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Can't really ever fully appreciate it though, due to the labour conditions...
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I'm sorry the OP didn't set exactly the subject and tone of discussion that you wanted, Stephan.
Sir_Crocodile
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what happens to the nearby buildings if one of the cables break?
DOWN
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I'm so sorry I didn't let this thread be a travel ad for a tacky place featuring one of the most dreadfully poor records on human rights and theocracy. Their big buildings totally should have trumped any context.
DXB-KNIGHT
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The project is inspired by the Hanging gardens of Babylon.
TheJollyCorner
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It's beautiful and horrifying.
Killzone: Shadow Fall is happening for real doe!
TheRealTalker
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mckmas8808
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Skyscapers make sense.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Ever see Ghost Ship?
AnathemicOne
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~2+ centuries from now if said building still exists and if we don't kill ourselves off, we will look back at Dubai and go, "Why the fuck did we build this shit?"
Doug Heffernan
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You are fucked if you live on the top floor and the elevator shuts down for service.
WordAssassin
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So what's the point if most of it isn't even usable space? Like what, they basically just build a really tall tower and then stick an antennae on it to push it into world's tallest category?
Also, I would hate to be anywhere near it if/when one of those cable breaks.
Also, I would hate to be anywhere near it if/when one of those cable breaks.
Little Old Man
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It's beautiful and horrifying.
What's with the random assortment of platforms in the sea around the tower?
Future.
passport storage
Mr. Giggles
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Not arguing but shouldn't you have started a thread to discuss those topics?!
Seems like you wanted to talk about buildings from a glance
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WordAssassin
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Some of them look like solar panels, others look kind of like secluded little environments? So like you stay at this place (what is it even, a hotel?) and you wanna go to the beach, they have a walled-off man-made beach area for you to go chill in. Don't know why there's a few that are just... ocean inside.
Aceofspades
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I don't know if its hate or jealousy in this thread?
Love to see it though...
Love to see it though...
WordAssassin
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If you read through it mostly seems hate at the rulers of Dubai and what would go in to actually building the tower (slaves), not many people seem to be shitting on the design of the tower itself. It is kind of weak that the majority of this particular tower is useless, though.
Also how the hell does Dubai not have plumbing? Didn't we as a people figure that one out like... a long time ago?
eyeball_kid
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The tallest building craze in NYC started in the Roaring 20's. The Empire State Building was in planning before the Crash. I don't think it's a coincidence that this was also a time of great income inequality. In a way these tall buildings are an ominous physical separation of the ruling class versus the commoners; modern versions of the Egyptian pyramids designed to elevate (physically and metaphorically) the status of the wealthy and make the ever-increasing distance between rich and poor known to everyone else. And in all three of these eras, the buildings were/are ironically built on the backs of poor immigrants and slaves.
Mr. Smiley
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Damn straight. Tall buildings are cool, but hopefully it won't be too long before nanomaterial is commonplace and we can get to work on some real 21st century skyline shit.
old manatee
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I'm anti, but maybe I can be swayed if they get Tom Cruise's smiling head to suction cup up the side of it.
eyeball_kid
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That's a fairly pedantic dispute when I'm only comparing the societal relevance and symbology of the two. The pyramids and skyscrapers both come from the ruling class, whether that class is royalty or the uber-wealthy.
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