[PW] Tallest and most impossible building question

[Shari Haber]

FWIW, Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, is supposed to have the 
world's talles building--once it is finished. Here are the stats:

Tower of Dubai
Built: 2004-2009
Cost: US$900,000,000.00
Designed by: Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill
Type: Skyscraper
Stories: 189
Maximum height: 2683 feet / 818 meters
Location: No. 1, Burj Dubai Boulevard, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
shaber at mcls.org


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ptak" <jfptak at thesciencebookstore.com>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 9:01 AM
Subject: [PW] Tallest and most impossible building question


> Hello.
> I'm wondering if anyone knows the height of the tallest building 
> projected to be built not including science fiction.   In my Naive 
> Sureal Collection of pamphlets there is an odd and demented pamphlet 
> by a woman who  founded a world society organization  in 1936 ("World 
> Wide Army") wherein she proposes a 300,000-foot tall tower (with a 
> bell on the top (!!)) as part of a series of ideal communitiies.  I've 
> never heard of anyone outside the scifi world proposing such a thing 
> as this--has anyone else heard of anything this impossible?  (I don't 
> count her effort as sciience ficiton, though it is probably science 
> fRiction.)
> She also propose a hole to be dug that is 3,000,.000 feet deep and 
> 3,000 feet across--she never does get to say why this hole was to be 
> dug.
>
> The author does propose that the base of teh building "be big enough".
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Ptak
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