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Obey · #**901** Posted **Dec 22, 2010, 3:08 AM**

I can't believe this is going to be one of the tallest buildings in the world

GulfArabia · #**902** Posted **Dec 24, 2010, 8:40 AM**

GulfArabia · #**903** Posted **Dec 25, 2010, 2:28 AM**

new update

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koops65 · #**904** Posted **Dec 26, 2010, 7:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by Obey

I can't believe this is going to be one of the tallest buildings in the world

It is already one of the tallest buildings in the world. And still growing taller.

TAK · #**905** Posted **Dec 30, 2010, 5:13 PM**

Interesting piece on this project in the NY Times today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/ar...ef=global-home

Generally negative article on this new project, but some nice pictures and interesting analysis

GulfArabia · #**906** Posted **Dec 30, 2010, 8:42 PM**

Heavy floods now in makkah

Lecom · #**907** Posted **Dec 30, 2010, 9:40 PM**

Floods? I thought the city was inland and at a pretty high elevation...

wrab · #**908** Posted **Dec 30, 2010, 10:25 PM**

The New York Times
New Look for Mecca: Gargantuan and Gaudy
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
Published: December 29, 2010

.....Like the luxury boxes that encircle most sports stadiums, the apartments will allow the wealthy to peer directly down at the main event from the comfort of their suites without having to mix with the ordinary rabble below.....

“We don’t want to bring New York to Mecca,” Mr. Angawi said. “The hajj was always supposed to be a time when everyone is the same. There are no classes, no nationalities. It is the one place where we find balance. You are supposed to leave worldly things behind you.”

The government, however, seems unmoved by such sentiments. When I mentioned Mr. Angawi’s observations at the end of a long conversation with Prince Sultan, the minister of tourism and antiquities, he simply frowned. “When I am in Mecca and go around the kaaba, I don’t look up.”

Link to NY Times article here.

Edit: Sorry TAK, I see that you have already posted the link above.

Crush_Buds · #**909** Posted **Dec 30, 2010, 10:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Lecom

Floods? I thought the city was inland and at a pretty high elevation...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...4d0054365c.df1

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MECCA, Saudi Arabia — Flash flooding killed a man and three children in the Mecca region of Saudi Arabia on Thursday, as waste-high water snarled traffic in the nearby Red Sea port of Jeddah, where 123 people died in flooding last year.
The governor of Mecca, Prince Khaled al-Faisal, reported the deaths and added that another 200 people had been rescued from flood waters, many by helicopter.....

GulfArabia · #**910** Posted **Dec 31, 2010, 1:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Lecom

Floods? I thought the city was inland and at a pretty high elevation...

makkah is a valley Lecom

GulfArabia · #**911** Posted **Jan 1, 2011, 4:07 PM**

28 Dec 2010

suburb · #**912** Posted **Jan 5, 2011, 9:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by GulfArabia

Why are they messing with Big Ben? Doesn't it have heritage status to prevent someone adding a hat to it?

Lecom · #**913** Posted **Jan 5, 2011, 9:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by suburb

Why are they messing with Big Ben? Doesn't it have heritage status to prevent someone adding a hat to it?

Because Big Ben invented putting large clocks on tall buildings, right?

On the same note, I can look at that photo and say, "Why are they messing with the Empire State Building? Doesn't it have heritage status to prevent someone building a taller copy in Makkah with Islamic motifs and a clock?"