Coming from you ellen, that means so much.

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have fun with sloppy thirds... :rofl:

Dubai was a horrible idea is what it boils down to.

It will see some rough rough times

Mitch is comedy gold in this thread :rofl:

Also, Amram works for apple and the Burj

im secretly working on apples iSkyscraper

i was just going to ask if mitch showed up. can't wait to read through.

you work at the ifc towers or something?

Built by slave labor brought in from India, I'd have more confidence in the tower if it were built by Mexicans.

Give it a year and it'll be structurally unsound to inhabit.

nope, i live in hung hom though - maybe 1500m from the building.

What does gauche mean?

Tacky

If they're following standards and the people in charge (engineers and architects) know what they're doing (which in this case they do) then it doesn't matter if monkeys built it, it would do just fine.

You know, when you fly over a city, you get a much better view than that.

:lol: I'm Scandinavian. I have been only once in Dubai I though it was cool place. :lol:

Watched a "making of video" and another documentary about the slave labor working conditions, jews at nazi concentration camps probably had better hygiene resources available to them.

The making of video showed some major part of the building, one of the main support walls wasn't thick enough, can't remember how they fixed it but it looked pretty sketchy to me.

These indians didn't no jack **** about construction, they were put to the task of building a cinder block wall in the basement and didn't know how to do it - the main engineer for the project had to show them.

I saw the same thing on discovery. That's how construction works in places where skilled labour isn't readily available. The point is that engineers and architects have to sign off on the finished work, which they won't do if it isn't up to par. The brains behind the operation are all westerners, so unless they wanna tarnish their image for the rest of the world to see on such a huge project, they're gonna make double sure that everything is completed to spec.

what world do you live in?

The construction world.

apparently not