Friday, April 18, 2008

I got 99 problems

The office is super boring this morning like usual. It feels like ive looked at the entire internet whilest sitting here for 4 hours in the morning each day. This i know is a stretch to say the least but nothing seems to be able to capture my interest on here. Although the other day i spent my whole morning on www.skyscraperpage.com because i have an obsession with tall buildings but im terribly afraid of heights haha. While I was exploring skyscraperpage the city of Dubai caught my interest, that place is so interesting. Did you know that almost a quarter of all building construction in the world is in Dubai and that like almost half the cranes in the world are there too. Of course these arent terribly accurate because i read this a few days ago and cant seem to find my way back to the page i read these facts on, but its still amazing how much is going on there. They are currentyl building the tallest building in the world there
burj dubai
burj dubai2

Look at all those fucking cranes
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To put this building in perspective for those of you only familiar with philadelphia, the burj dubai is gonna be 807 meters tall, where the comcast center here in Philadelphia is only 297 meters tall. So every time i look up at the comcast center i think of what it must be like to be a messenger in Dubai and look up at the burj, thats like 2 1/2 comcast centers tall. This is the diagram of Philly: http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?c326
and heres Dubai:
http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?c23
Now youll notice that Dubai has one building proposed that is even bigger than the burj, this building is the Al Burj and its slated to be tall as fuck. Its gonna be the first building to break the 1000 meter mark. Heres some comparison
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Fucking crazy right? Imagine taking one of those elevators, of course they would use high speed elevators but still it would take foreverrrrrrr. Look at how tiny the burj dubai looks comapred to it. Theres gotta be bike messengers in dubai with all those buildings everywhere right? I could see everything being delivered by car though, i even went on google maps and poked around dubai on there, unfortunately no street view yet haha. Seems like theres a shit ton of roads to remember there, they use number streets much like philly but theres different sections to the city that all use their own number streets and they go into the 100s. I think i could swing it though, my brain has a knack for remembering streets and buildings and floors of clients.
I dont know where i was originally going with this post, it seems all my post just seem to wander off. So im gonna end this post with a list!

1. Philly should build more tall ass buildings, the ACC tower is a big step but still is no 1000 meter building
2. Check out skyscraperpage.com itll give you something to do for a few hours
3. Im terribly bored and cant wait to see everyone tonight at the art feast and film
4. but a bitch aint one?

wooooooooooooo!!
Ric flair!

3 comments:

Jim Kauterman said...

Get a DS and play Pocket Monsters.


Have you learned NOTHIIIIIIIIIIIIING?

Tim said...

That building is straight out of some 80s anime. You know, when anime was still "japanimation."

Unknown said...

did you hear about this?:
http://www.phillyskyline.com/acc1.htm

http://www.acctower.com/