Originally Posted by GulfArabia (Post 5003744) http://www.compositesworld.com/cdn/cms/1010_CT_EI2.jpg

Originally Posted by vid (Post 5004650) How is it hilarious?

To me, the Grand Mosque always looked vast and majestic, dominating.

Originally Posted by colemonkee (Post 5015846) The details at the top of the shorter towers and on the clock on the larger tower really make this whole complex. That level of detail is rare these days, and it's kind of refreshing to see it, IMHO.

Originally Posted by CUclimber (Post 5016152) Seriously? It always looked like a 4-story sprawling courtyard to me. I love the scale of the Abraj Al-Bait. And that clock is spectacular.

Originally Posted by sw5710 (Post 5016635) This will be the # 2 tallest "building" in the world for a while.

Originally Posted by MolsonExport (Post 5016912) Tokyo Skytree (2080 feet) will surpass Abraj Al-Bait early next year.

Originally Posted by sw5710 (Post 5016635) This will be the # 2 tallest "building" in the world for a while.

Originally Posted by GulfArabia (Post 5019617) http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/2...97120ee48b.jpg

Originally Posted by M.K. (Post 5023633) ....but also shows how religion dark strong side is to them to make a huge tremendous contrast between rich tall tower and poverty besides. An imperium in a Favela

Giant Makkah clock to be ready next month
Saturday, October 23, 2010

* The 601 meter tower, took only two years to construct

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A giant clock tower constructed in Islam’s holiest city of Makkah as one of the world’s highest towers will be completed next month and will be linked to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), a Saudi newspaper said Saturday.

The third face of the clock skyscraper, which was launched on a trial basis last month, has been completed while the fourth side will be finished in early November, Sahafaonline Arabic language network reported.

“The fourth side is located south of the Makkah Grand Mosque…it will be finished early next month to mark the end of the project that will be one of the most important hallmarks for Muslims around the world,” it said.

“The clock timing will be linked to UTC after the fourth and last side is completed…a 23-metre crescent on the watch has been constructed and is believed to be the largest man-made crescent in the world….loudspeakers have also been installed on top of the watch to transmit prayers call, which can be heard within a distance of nearly seven km.”

UTC, also referred to as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), Universal Time (UT), or "Zulu" is an international time scale used in astronomical and aviation publications, weather products, and other documents.

Formerly and still widely called GMT, UTC nominally reflects the mean solar time along the Earth's prime meridian. UTC is expressed using a 24-hour clock but can be converted into a 12-hour clock--AM and PM.

Inaugurating the clock tower last month, Saudi officials said they hoped it would establish Makkah as an alternate time standard to the Greenwich median.

The tower's height will reach 601 metres when it is completed, making it the world's second tallest building -- ahead of Taiwan's 509 metre Taipei 101, but well behind the Burj Khalifa, the 828 metre skyscraper in Dubai.

More than six times larger in diameter than London's famed Big Ben, the clock faces, with the Arabic words "In the Name of Allah" in huge lettering underneath and will be lit with two million LED lights.

The tower, which took two years to construct, is equipped with an elevator to take visitors to the surrounding balcony below the four clocks.

In August, the clock tower triggered panic among Muslim pilgrims when it was shrouded with fog, mistaken for smoke from a fire.

Civil Defence vehicles rushed to the tower site after receiving numerous calls from pilgrims saying that the building is engulfed in smoke.

http://www.emirates247.com/news/regi...10-23-1.307663

Originally Posted by M.K. (Post 5024189) ^Remember just to put the source of this interesting fictional and fantasy pic, that is allright. Taken in consideration the kids fantasy, point of view as father, well... you are right in some way. :haha: :haha: :haha: laugh a lot the correlation. Btw impressive Painting of the Alladin Castle. Who is interested to make a fantasy diagram of it? But the correlation is 'correct' because it is also Arabic Story, isn't it?

Originally Posted by Lecom (Post 5027833) The correlation also rings true because both are single-construction megaprojects by the royalty situated among a maze of small, private developments on narrow old streets.