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Saudi Arabia Discovers It's Hard to Build a 105-Mile Skyscraper (futurism.com)

submitted 6 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/architecture@lemmy.ml

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[–] stembolts@programming.dev 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It seems like one of the dumbest things ever. I hope they carry on. Don't invest in the future, that's for dummies, build a giant phallic symbol in one of the least hospitable areas of the world.

Think about the maintenance costs alone..

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A straight line is a phallic symbol now?

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

Yep, the whole world is dicks. Dicks dicks dicks.

[–] BackwardMonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

But... but MBS is rich so he must be smart, right? No way he could be naked?

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Roofing is the most expensive and trickiest parts of a building, so let's take an enormous skyscraper and make one of the walls a roof. They probably plan for a team of flat roofing slaves working around the clock like window washers. When they get to one end they go back to the start in an ourorobus of roofing.