Mile-high tower: Saudi prince promises £5bn desert spire...

[katty]

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Mile-high tower: Saudi prince promises £5bn desert spire TWICE as tall as nearest rival being built
By BARRY WIGMORE - More by this author »

Last updated at 12:15pm on 31st March 2008

On a clear day, the view from the top will take in the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian Ocean - providing you've a head for heights.

Plans for a mile-high tower in the Saudi Arabian desert have been unveiled by the billionaire owner of London's Savoy Hotel.

At 5,250ft, the £5billion project, masterminded by two British engineering consultancies, will be twice as high as its nearest rivals, skyscrapers under construction in Dubai and Kuwait, and almost seven times as high as the Canary Wharf tower in London's Docklands.

[DemocratInSoCal]

1. The Good News Is

Since it's in Saudi Arabia, he might not have to worry about 19 Saudi's flying a plane into it.

[katty]

3. yeah, and our bases will be protecting their tower!

[aquart]

6. Well, yeah, they do, actually.

Which is why I'm so mightily entertained by it.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. By the time this is over, we'll have to learn hundreds of new languages!

;-)

[katty]

8. ha!ha! and not understand each other any better-as usual!

[NYdemocrat089]

4. Frank Lloyd Wright also designed a mile-high tower.

It was called The Illinois and he designed it in 1956.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illinois

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. In related news, Saudi's reaffirm their ties to the 12th century by beheading a young woman who

smiled at a young man in public to whom she was not related.

[frogcycle]

7. now THAT is a hell of a phallic symbol

makes *Washington's Greatest Erection seem puny

*aka The Washington Monument

[tsuki]

9. Wonder if Prince al Waleed bin Talah will broadcast Fox News

from the tower?