The Line - Saudi Arabia

[KS55]

The window cleaning contract for that mirror facade, should be a nice little earner!

Nah, it will be Asians at 50p an hour.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

An astronomically huge mirror, in the desert, right opposite a populated area.
What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/london-skyscraper-can-melt-cars-set-buildings-fire-8c11069092

 

[DenisHasDoneIt]

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Streets in the sky. There is a pic somewhere of a milk float on the umpteenth floor.

The four crescents were only about 7 floors high - duplexes, they’d call them, in a higher rent neighbourhood. My dad was on the job that built them. Damn near broke his heart, that and the Arndale Centre a few years later.

Mate of mine had a squat in William Kent Crescent in the late 80s. Hulme back then was like ‘Escape from New York’. Complete dystopian nightmare. Folk who lived there then liked it, because the Council had stopped collecting rent in about 1984.

Concrete evidence: photos from Hulme Crescents

Jonathan Schofield on Richard Davis' Hulme photos book, nostagia and reality

confidentials.com

 

[Octavian]

An astronomically huge mirror, in the desert, right opposite a populated area.
What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/london-skyscraper-can-melt-cars-set-buildings-fire-8c11069092

Well to be fair that didn’t go wrong, that article was 9 years ago and has proven to be a load of shite.

Not that I’d want to live in this new 1984 Saudi hell hole.

Looks like living on a giant cruise ship without the views.

 

[Corky]

I assumed this was some concept bollocks, but spoke to an engineer there in August who said it was 100% going ahead.

Probably easier to do under such an autocratic system compared to the governance onion we have. I doubt there were many planning objections...