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CarlosV · #**1401** Posted: **Apr 21, 2012, 9:10 AM**

wow, the interior shots of the hotel look stunning, the crown is beautiful especially at night, but the rest of the building is just too much...to me it belongs in Las Vegas!

GulfArabia · #**1402** Posted: **Apr 23, 2012, 5:57 AM**

openning

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video shot from the very top

• Video Link

CarlosV · #**1403** Posted: **Apr 26, 2012, 5:57 PM**

^^^

PZelda · #**1404** Posted: **Apr 27, 2012, 2:49 PM**

That video made me want to vomit! Nothing wrong with it - I have a fear of heights to a certain degree. *Inside* buildings (and in enclosed but outdoors observatories like at Top of the Rock and the ESB in NYC), fine. Airplanes, fine. But if you're totally out in the open like that... I just want to vomit! That guy is brave.

flotsam · #**1405** Posted: **May 11, 2012, 4:58 PM**

It looks for all the world like a mantelpiece ornament of the ornate kind of a bygone age. Weird name, weird clock with islamic moon. Weird.
Video makes me feel sick but at least it is not like the slimline tall buildings which seem to be the rage. It has bulk below the tower. More stable?

Ed007Toronto · #**1406** Posted: **May 18, 2012, 1:17 PM**

All I can say is YUCK!

The Imster · #**1407** Posted: **May 20, 2012, 10:31 PM**

This building is goin to capture the hearts of many over time. I hope we can get some better angle shots of the building - a helicopter slight birds eye view shots would be nice - it will grow on people and hopefully be marveled like the rest

Chicago103 · #**1408** Posted: **May 24, 2012, 2:13 PM**

When is the observation deck going to open? According to what I have read it is supposed to be the highest observation deck in the world.

FTP · #**1409** Posted: **May 25, 2012, 6:06 PM**

OMG that video link is hard to watch. VERTIGO!

Sam Hill · #**1410** Posted: **Jun 8, 2012, 12:31 AM**

This building looks like a Vegas novelty building...but on a obnoxiously giant scale. Weird. Just....just weird. I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry.

Sam Hill · #**1411** Posted: **Jun 8, 2012, 12:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by FTP

OMG that video link is hard to watch.

You mean the first one?

The Imster · #**1412** Posted: **Jun 10, 2012, 12:46 PM**

Once the surrounding areas are done up and the finishing touches are done to the complex - it will look better. I hope someone can post high bird eye view of the building - showing it height in relation to the ground. It is deceptively tall when you look at it from the ground and from pictures from certain angles

JayCortese · #**1413** Posted: **Jun 11, 2012, 10:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by PZelda

That video made me want to vomit! Nothing wrong with it - I have a fear of heights to a certain degree. *Inside* buildings (and in enclosed but outdoors observatories like at Top of the Rock and the ESB in NYC), fine. Airplanes, fine. But if you're totally out in the open like that... I just want to vomit! That guy is brave.

I am just the same!

JayCortese · #**1414** Posted: **Jun 11, 2012, 11:02 PM**

It's just like the vegas replicas but at an obnoxious height!

Ed007Toronto · #**1415** Posted: **Jun 12, 2012, 1:48 PM**

Not sure what to think about this. A bit over the top I guess.

Tom In Chicago · #**1416** Posted: **Jun 12, 2012, 4:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ed007Toronto

Not sure what to think about this. A bit over the top I guess.

You already told us what you thought about this just a few posts ago. . .

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ed007Toronto

All I can say is YUCK!

Thanks for sharing

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McShadyPL · #**1417** Posted: **Jul 22, 2012, 6:53 AM**

Sigh. This is a ghastly monstrosity.

Guiltyspark · #**1418** Posted: **Jul 24, 2012, 2:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by McShadyPL

Sigh. This is a ghastly monstrosity.

I keep waiting to find any redeeming qualities, but no. Just super tacky. Sometimes I am jealous of towers going up in other parts of the world. Not this time...

Ch.G, Ch.G · #**1419** Posted: **Jul 24, 2012, 10:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Guiltyspark

I keep waiting to find any redeeming qualities, but no. Just super tacky. Sometimes I am jealous of towers going up in other parts of the world. Not this time...

Yeah. I could maybe appreciate the totally absurd, over-the-top, nouveau riche tackiness if it weren't towering over the holiest site of the world's second largest religion.

photoLith · #**1420** Posted: **Jul 24, 2012, 11:49 PM**

Ive never really liked this tower, yes its hugely impressive but it just looks like a tacky trophy. Sorry Meccanites/Meccanesians.