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Someone send this architect a DVD of the movie The Towering Inferno.

PK wrote:These people have entirely too much money.

If I had that kind of money, first, I'd buy SMU good football and basketball. Second, I'd buy SMU the largest, most phallic-shaped building in the world, and I'd put it on the Ms. Bairds plant as a nice F-YOU to the university park people who keep the 'height restriction' in place and thus hamper SMU development.

couch 'em wrote:

PK wrote:These people have entirely too much money.

If I had that kind of money, first, I'd buy SMU good football and basketball. Second, I'd buy SMU the largest, most phallic-shaped building in the world, and I'd put it on the Ms. Bairds plant as a nice F-YOU to the university park people who keep the 'height restriction' in place and thus hamper SMU development.

Okay, I have no problem with the height restriction. It doesn't hamper our development. It forces us to build a little less than traditionally, but I really appreciate the not-as-menacing size and look of our campus. I don't want 20 story dorms and stuff.

PK wrote:Well let's see. A kilometer is 1000 meters...so that's approximately 3,250 feet. Does that help? That is over 200 floors. Here is what it looks like. Supposed to be completed in 2010.



How hard would it be to hit that dude with a jet airliner?

These people have entirely too much money.

Burj in arabic means "tower", or so I'm told...

The burj Dubai (yes, different building, is competing with the Dubai al-burj, but their official heights have not been published for "competitive" reasons.

Very similar to the "bundled straws" concept from the Sears Tower.

I just hope it doesn't look like this

"Okay, I have no problem with the height restriction..."

Perhaps that is why the school is purchasing land on the east side of the fwy where the old ua cine theatre is (was). I'm assuming no University Park restrictions & you could still make it part of the overall campus - especially as the campus builds to the east.

Can we attach some sort of diamond M bat signal device to the top?

ponyte wrote:I just hope it doesn't look like this

I see Paula Jones has her car parked outside of Clinton's Library again.

MustangStealth wrote:Can we attach some sort of diamond M bat signal device to the top?

To what purpose?!? Who the hell would answer that?

I could tell you, but that would constitute hazing.

NavyCrimson wrote:

"Okay, I have no problem with the height restriction..."

Perhaps that is why the school is purchasing land on the east side of the fwy where the old ua cine theatre is (was). I'm assuming no University Park restrictions & you could still make it part of the overall campus - especially as the campus builds to the east.

Highly doubtful, SMU seems to be moving a lot of administration over there at this point. And SMU has shown schematically that the Library will be located where the current Binkleys are.

What are the plans for the Mrs. Baird's building? Just sitting on it till something comes up?

I hear Mrs. Baird's is going to be the home for the new Home Economics Department.

EastStang wrote:I hear Mrs. Baird's is going to be the home for the new Home Economics Department.

I heard a new dorm is going up over there.

smu diamond m wrote:

EastStang wrote:I hear Mrs. Baird's is going to be the home for the new Home Economics Department.

I heard a new dorm is going up over there.

A very large one to my understanding. In this way we will laugh at the height restrictions of University Park by building our super-dorm in the city of Dallas.