Hyder Consulting Plans Huge Building, Likely is Compensating

“Somewhere in the Middle East” is the current planned location for Hyder Consulting’s latest construction project: The World’s Tallest Red Block. This monstrosity, with a planned height of 5,250 feet, would be by far the world’s tallest structure. It seems to me that there must be some reason that the current tallest building in the world is only 1,671 feet, like safety or something. It also seems that an undisclosed location in the Middle East is not the best place in the world to try and build a 5,250 foot tall building. It seems to run the elevated risk of becoming a 0 foot tall building. I think that they would be better off building such a tower in a friendlier place, such as Canada. In Canada, the building would be primarily used as a tourist trap. Just think about it: the elevator to the mile-high club. Unfortunately, I don’t think anybody would be doing the “Alabama Crab Dangle” in a Canadian-built structure. I suppose we’d have to settle for the “Manitoba… uhh… Manatee?”

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