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The World’s First Skyscrapers
deputy-dog.com — Also known as ‘the Manhattan of the desert’, Shibam, Yemen is said to be home to the world’s oldest, surviving skyscrapers.
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- pizzler, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3The two first pics of the submitted link look a scale model of the city....I can't tell for sure butt the place is near looking....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibam
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Shibam_Wadi_Hadhramaut_Yemen.jpg- tony134340, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2Yep, definitely scale models in the link. Could you actually link to the real thing next time? I think you were smoking your avatar when you submitted. 'Butt' it's awwright.
- wisam, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11What the hell are you talking about? Doesn't look like miniature to me.
- tony134340, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1I was talking about the original link. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I thought the at least one of them were scale models.
- wisam, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11What the hell are you talking about? Doesn't look like miniature to me.
- jorgepblank, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8They aren't scale models, it's just a photography method called something shift, where it makes it look miniature, it was on digg a while ago (A description of the method).
- turpenine, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8tilt shift, and i don't think it is tilt shift, it is just odd proportions and weird angles we aren't used to
- jorgepblank, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1It wasn't a scale model, it was a photography method called shift something or something like that, a description of the method was on digg a while ago.
- tony134340, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2Yep, definitely scale models in the link. Could you actually link to the real thing next time? I think you were smoking your avatar when you submitted. 'Butt' it's awwright.
- wisam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Navigation through the city might seem a problem. But not after you see this
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=shibam,+yemen&sll=15.923696,48.631668&sspn=0.331469,0.466919&ie=UTF8&ll=15.926698,48.6261&spn=0.00259,0.005407&t=k&z=18&om=1 - agann, on 10/10/2007, -9/+1Buji Dubai: New tallest skyscraper in the world [Picture]
http://www.linkinn.com/_The_worlds_newest_tallest_building_is_about_to_be_completed_looks_amazing_should_be_safer_than_going_to_space_to_get_a_better_view_of_earth- wisam, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4kinda irrelevant, isn't it agann?
- soot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11This whole article looks like a tutorial on tilt shift photography.
- JaYBrooks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Wonder if fire would compromise the structures. If they have lasted as long as they have.. they must not include a lot of timber. Very interesting though. Couple questions: Does anyone know what is the tallest mud brick structure in this location? Does anyone know the physical building technique used?
- fahimi, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1No.
- riggs32, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1no offense but how is this article on a news site, its not like we just discovered these.
- wisam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6neither deputydog.com nor digg.com are news websites
- manitoba98xp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That this is in the "World News" section would seem to suggest that this section, at least, is intended for news.
- wisam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6neither deputydog.com nor digg.com are news websites
- raytibbitts, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Looks like Spaniards have been trying to emulate this style of construction and traffic engineering for centuries.
Damn, I miss marching bands, pay-at-the-pump, and pre-sliced hot-dog buns.- SRSco, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2What? o_O
- raytibbitts, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Sorry about the wacky comment...
It's just that I grew up in the U.S., and I have been living in Spain for long enough to start going loco (crazy)
From where I am sitting right now, the city of Madrid looks remarkable like the pictures of this ancient town, and the overhead shot looks just like the traffic maps of every city in Spain, except Barcelona.
As soon as my mind made that connection, I instantly was reminded of a few thing that I am really missing right now. A good football game (American football), a parade with marching bands, being able to pay for your gasoline without having to go inside and wait in line, and I would also like to be able to buy hot dog buns that are ready for the hot dog to placed inside them, without any extra effort on my part, and don't forget the Miracle Whip, barbecue sauce, Cool Whip, and a nice, soft, warm bagel.
None of these things can I do in Spain.
- raytibbitts, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Sorry about the wacky comment...
- SRSco, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2What? o_O
- SEANWOOKIE, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I think all these things I've never seen makes it a proven fact that it is not a small world after all.
- ButterBuddha, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Just compact enough for one suicide bomber to level whole thing....
- originaldna, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1I know about these buildings, it's surprising that a lot of people in the west, some on this blog always bash Muslims but yet steal ideas from them, music aka classical, numbering system, well that indu, and the old Victorian architecture styles, all moor that they copied from Spain during the Moorish fall.
- Amnesia10, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Actually the Romans had six or seven story tenements more than 1500 years earlier. They mastered brick buildings long ago,
- A11YND, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I've figured out were I'm moving.
- Palmer586, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I thought it would be something to do with a place in my hometown, Shrewsbury, where we have the first iron-framed building: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditherington_Flax_Mill
Still, that place looks like a fun place to get lost in. - BronxBomber78, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0What's the rent?
- doublsh0t, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1well it would've been the tower of babel but...yeh that didn't go so well apparently
(lol) - PrettyBoyFloyd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This place has some competition for the title of "World's Oldest Skyscrapers." If these only date back 500 years, they need a few centuries to be as old as the towers in San Gimignano, Italy, the "Manhattan of Tuscany." San Gimignano is an ancient Etruscan city in the rolling Sienna hills that boasts a series of 15 incredibly tall stone towers built by the wealthy families of the region in the 13th century. The walls of the city date from 998 A.D., and the 72 original towers were constructed over the next 400 years. In the past 700 years, the city has been torn by wars between Sienna and Florence (and battles between the families who live there) so now only 15 towers remain intact. For all the details in english, check out http://www.sangimignano.net.
- jcand, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0No wonder very few people still live there. Can you imagine the heat generated by placing these buildings so close together in the desert? I'd opt for something buried.
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