Remember when the US used to be able to do things like this???
You mean lavishly foolish wastes of wealth to please a potentate's ego? See Trump Parade.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 19, 2018 11:40 AM |
It's really just a penis
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 26, 2018 7:27 PM |
Well whats up with Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal? Last I heard he was under house arrest.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 26, 2018 8:09 PM |
Sears (now Willis) Tower was engineered by a Bangladeshi Muslim, Fazlur Khan.
Today's tallest buildings in Saudi Arabia and much of Asia are all designed by Adrian Smith, borh in Chicago in 1944.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 26, 2018 8:20 PM |
And they keep burning in infernos...so, OP, what's your point?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 26, 2018 8:22 PM |
Offsite Link
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 26, 2018 8:24 PM |
Not all of us are so easily impressed by fug design, no matter how shiny or tall it may be.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 26, 2018 8:30 PM |
Old Jeddah is quite interesting and atmospheric. I used to have fun in the really 2000's there. It sure would be good for Saudi's and the world if SA could more towards constitutional monarchy, but it can't and won't.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 26, 2018 11:19 PM |
early....
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 26, 2018 11:20 PM |
[quote] And they keep burning in infernos...so, OP, what's your point?
But with none of the glamour as when Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Jennifer Jones, and Robert Wagner were burning up.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 27, 2018 1:44 AM |
Why would we want to, OP? I'm not going up in that without a parachute.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 27, 2018 1:51 AM |
Who needs yet another building that looks like a super-tall bayonet? The Burj Khalifa is plenty by itself.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 27, 2018 2:30 AM |