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[MogCakes]

Remove the skyscrapers and nothing will change for the average American.

The point he is making and your counterpoint aren't related.

 

[MogCakes]

You had a personal relationship with the construction of royal buildings.

He was making the point that the pyramids and bourgeoisie skyscrapers share the trait of being symbols of power. Not every skyscraper fits that description, but in this case certainly it is.

 

[Little Old Man]

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.

lol that's why you don't skim over big pics on your phone. So there are!

The beach ones around the tower look cool, but the others look like some dude dropped Warhammer Mighty Empire tiles into the sea.

 

[Keikaku]

Just to caution a few people here, please don't quote the 'The Dark Side of Dubai' article so freely. The author, Johann Hari, has been implicated and admitted to multiple factual errors, plagarism and outright fabrication. He's made a written apology admitting fault/blame but he wasn't exactly forthcoming about it. Regarding this article specifically, several of the people he talked about literally cannot be traced/found and likely never existed. The woman he calls Karen Andrews, for example, is not one that anyone appears to know or know of at all.

None of this is to say that there aren't serious issues with slave labor and civil liberties/human rights in Dubai. However, it would be better to use examples like Zack Shahin. There is enough actual bullshit going on there that we don't have to use stuff that likely made up to support the point.

If there are any sort of errors with any of this, please point it out and I'll revise or remove as necessary.

Back on topic: I really can't imagine that there will be any sort of need or use for this building. If the region as a whole doesn't transition and sustain the transition to something other than a oil-based economy, there will be trouble. At that point, a lot of these buildings will have even less utility.

 

[Donthizz#]

that's one cool looking building.

 

[makingmusic476]

What's with the random assortment of platforms in the sea around the tower?

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.

Architectural Digest:

In Japan, officials decided to launch an initiative called “Next Tokyo,” where architects would create a futuristic mega-city that is adapted to climate change in the year 2045. Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and Leslie E. Robertson Associates joined forces to propose a vision for a new city in Tokyo Bay. Their design incorporates elements that improve the bay’s preparedness for natural disasters (such as earthquakes and typhoons) as well as a mile-high residential tower and a public-transportation-friendly district. The water development’s hexagonal-shaped structures, ranging from 500 to 5,000 feet in width, were imagined in layers to minimize the effects of intense waves from the bay, while also allowing ships easy access in and out of the busy harbor.

What’s more, some structures would be prefilled with water, allowing access to islands that are public beach harbors and urban farming plots. Salt water from the bay would also be retained to grow algae, a source of renewable and clean fuel.

 

[Dingens]

Jesus at that Tokyo tower. I hope I live to see that.

whoever made this graph screwed up big time
nearly every single number is wrong, kinda amazing...

So "Sky Mile Tower" in Japan, Japan doesn't use the imperial system no? Why make it a mile?

as it's proposed height is 1600 meters (and not an exact mile), it's more likely that the name was just a fitting afterthought.

 

[Monocle]

Should be more phallic, to better represent its true purpose.

 

[NEO0MJ]

Why are people here so jealous of Dubai? Is it for its freedom and tall, mighty buildings which peirce the heavens?

 

[Mohonky]

Why are people here so jealous of Dubai? Is it for its freedom and tall, mighty buildings which peirce the heavens?

err....no actually quite the opposite

 

[The Silver]

U.S needs to get started on a full blown Tower of Babylon, can't let these damn foreigners have anything bigger than us.

 

[Faddy]

If we used the same budget the pyramids did (in terms of percentage), we would have had state-funded 4,000m megastructures decades ago. Skyscrapers are an extremely small vanity compared to the pyramids. Besides, the pyramids had no real use as they were basically a glorified tombstone, while skyscrapers house companies, employ people and contribute to the economy at least as much as their construction cost.

My point is, remove the pyramids and the people of Egypt could have put their manpower in public infrastructure like the Romans did. Remove the skyscrapers and nothing will change for the average American.

The pyramids have been a great long term investment for tourism. Plus they were built 1000 years before the Romans built their fist aqueduct.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

Ever see Ghost Ship?

rofl