It's over, Burj Dubai is finished.

http://www.tdrinc.com/ultima.html

This building is the tallest building ever envisioned and if built will eclipse all others in the height stakes. And nothing the Arabs can build will match it. But would you live there? I would love a room at 11000 feet, imagine the view!

You know God would just knock it down, right?

If the website design is anything to go by, this will never happen. It does remind me of the eco tower things (what were they called?) in Sim City...

Edit: These things

Their design for Apple Company HQ. WTF?

Eh, that's likely never going to happen. I've seen that idea floating around for a couple decades now, and there have been several such ideas ever since Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned a mile-high tower for Chicago (and probably before that as well).

neubejiita said:

http://www.tdrinc.com/ultima.html

This building is the tallest building ever envisioned and if built will eclipse all others in the height stakes. And nothing the Arabs can build will match it. But would you live there? I would love a room at 11000 feet, imagine the view!

Sorry, the elevators are out of order for maintenance, please use the stairs. :p

Project Owner: None
Location: Any densely populated urban environment
Date: 1991

Yeah this is recent, and is totally gonna happen.

neubejiita said:

http://www.tdrinc.com/ultima.html

This building is the tallest building ever envisioned

Note the underlined word.

Mega-city-buildings are no new idea. They have also been criticized on many fundamental points which would make their construction and maintenance seem unattractive. One such example is disease. With all the people in such close proximity breathing recycled air, a sufficiently deadly and fast-spreading disease could wipe out the entire population of such a structure quickly.

Graf Zahl said:

Note the underlined word.

I dunno, I'm pretty sure the bible envisions a taller building. Just as mythical as this one, but if we're nitpicking.

neato

Well that's one way to communicate with ETs. *Crossing fingers*

Quasar said:

a sufficiently deadly and fast-spreading disease could wipe out the entire population of such a structure quickly.

All the more reason to build it!

Looks neat but I doubt anyone in the world would want to spent billions to trillions of dollars to build that monster.

Quasar said:

One such example is disease. With all the people in such close proximity breathing recycled air, a sufficiently deadly and fast-spreading disease could wipe out the entire population of such a structure quickly.

While this is a concern, this is already an existing problem in densely populated cities such as Tokyo and New York. The bigger issue to me is how exactly would you have running water 2 miles up? It's said that it takes roughly 100+ gallons of water just to flush a toilet on the top floors of the Burj Dubai, so I can't even begin to conceive how much water it would take to flush a toilet 2 miles up.