That's A Big Arse Building

[Blue]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=550548&in_page_id=1811

[Sooner_Havok]

Is that even possible to build?

[bluedogok]

Sure, pretty much anything could be built given enough money and time.

[olevetonahill]

Gonna be a Ho house on the top
New way to join the Mile high club .:D

[M]

Sounds like somebody's compensating for something :rolleyes:

[bri]

Man, I can't wait for something to happen to that thing.

Why, oh why, did all the dinosaurs have to die where those idiots live?

[C&CDean]

I think we oughta get a bunch of crazed indy rockers to drive a bus into that POS and bring er' down.

[Sooner_Havok]

Man, I can't wait for something to happen to that thing.

Why, oh why, did all the dinosaurs have to die where those idiots live?

You ever seen that place? Ain't much to do but die

[GottaHavePride]

I was SO trying to find a picture of a giant proctology building to post in here.

Do NOT GIS that at work.

[12]

Ha! Their short by 30 feet.

Our gas dollars at work, folks.

[Sooner_Havok]

I hope we can get photovoltaic cells efficiency up so we can tell them to sit and spin with their new tower soon

[12]

We should build the same building on the peak of Mt. Mckinley. I realize oxygen would be required, but hey, screw 'em.

Then again, with our oil money, they could feasibly build an elevator to the moon.

[12]

oh, and the photo cell thing too.

[BigRedJed]

http://www.delmars.com/wright/milehigh.jpg

[Sooner_Havok]

http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/atkinson/948/milehigh.jpg

fortunecity p3wnage!!1

[bri]

Some people never learn; Fortune City don't play dat!

[Sooner_Havok]

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/McHammer.gif

[silverwheels]

Yeah, good luck keeping that from toppling over in the slightest breeze.

[BigRedJed]

That's a mile-high skyscraper Frank Lloyd Wright proposed to build in 1956. He believed at the time that it could be built, however there are a number of people even today that think it would have been all but impossible, due to factors like sway and also the unintended consequences of a building that size, such as getting people up and down elevators in a resonable amount of time.

The Illinois was supposed to be able to accomodate 100,000 people, many of whom would never need to leave, as it was a self contained city. He invisioned true mixed use, where people would live, shop, work, go to the movies and just about everything else in the same building.

The building was obviously never built, but when H.C. (Hal) Price, an oil pipeline company owner in Bartlesville, Oklahoma contacted Wright to inquire about Wright designing his new headquarters, Wright suggested a dramatically scaled-down version of the Illinois, which became Oklahoma's own Price Tower (http://www.pricetower.org). Price Tower today has had a dramatic refurbishing, and interior remodel sensitive to Wright's original vision and today you can spend the night at the Inn at Price Tower, a wonderful bed & breakfast. The tower also serves as a museum.

No other state in the U.S. has a FLW skyscraper, and if you haven't visted it, you should.

[BigRedJed]

Guh. I didn't see that was fortunecity.

[Sooner_Havok]

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[bri]

Okay, that's cool.

[sooneron]

That's a mile-high skyscraper Frank Lloyd Wright proposed to build in 1956. He believed at the time that it could be built, however there are a number of people even today that think it would have been all but impossible, due to factors like sway and also the unintended consequences of a building that size, such as getting people up and down elevators in a resonable amount of time.

The Illinois was supposed to be able to accomodate 100,000 people, many of whom would never need to leave, as it was a self contained city. He invisioned true mixed use, where people would live, shop, work, go to the movies and just about everything else in the same building.

The building was obviously never built, but when H.C. (Hal) Price, an oil pipeline company owner in Bartlesville, Oklahoma contacted Wright to inquire about Wright designing his new headquarters, Wright suggested a dramatically scaled-down version of the Illinois, which became Oklahoma's own Price Tower (http://www.pricetower.org). Price Tower today has had a dramatic refurbishing, and interior remodel sensitive to Wright's original vision and today you can spend the night at the Inn at Price Tower, a wonderful bed & breakfast. The tower also serves as a museum.

No other state in the U.S. has a FLW skyscraper, and if you haven't visted it, you should.

Good write up Jed. That beaut of a building is what inspired my dad ( a young dude growing up in B'ville) to take up teh architorture.
Every person in the state should make the trip to see it. Even the state fair types. Well, maybe them.

[Pricetag]

Didn't God scatter us to the corners of the globe and cause us to speak different tounges for trying to build something like this before?

[StoopTroup]

We should build a mega-truss in Norman which would make us "The Center of the Football World" that we are. :D

[bri]

Didn't God scatter us to the corners of the globe and cause us to speak different tounges for trying to build something like this before?

Yeah, but that was 'cause they were trying to build a tower to Heaven. This is just some insanely rich guy with a penchant for gingham headwear wanting to build a big shiny c*ck out in the middle of the desert just so he can say it's twice as big as the next biggest big shiny c*ck.

[NormanPride]

How long would that pyramid take to build?

[bri]

Depends on the Japanese labor laws, I'd say...

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:D