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Kingdom Tower: World’s Tallest Building
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Why does man have to go one better than everyone else every time? As soon as the biggest, the tallest, the highest, the something-est gets built and made, then it has to be toppled by something that is even bigger. One-upmanship is what man does best at times; going that little bit further, whether it be for good or for bad.
It’s now the Saudi Arabians in Jeddah that are starting this Sunday (April 27th) laying the foundations for the Kingdom Tower, the world’s tallest building to be! But the foundations will need to be 60 meters deep (196.85 ft).
• It will stand 1**, 000 meters** tall (3280.84 feet), which is 173 meters (over 567 feet) taller than the current title-holder, which is the Burj Khalifa, Dubai.
• Its total cost will hit $1.23 billion (although that’s the cost at the outset…since when did builders manage to stick to what the price tag said?).
• There will be 200 floors to the building.
• The architects are Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture.
But, just how do you go about building a 1-km building?
The building will have to withstand the sea water nearby and also the wind. The building will have a tapering look to it rather than just a block of concrete, meaning that it will be able to stand the wind load, with the shape changing in the building every few floors until it tapers to a point at the top.
Some architects believe today that we can design and build without too much trouble buildings of between one and even two kilometers high. Beyond that it seems that we might have some trouble going further up.
But, it’s not just building the thing that is a feat in itself; it’s also providing the equipment and the machinery to enable people to get to the top. No point in building a kilometer-high building if you have to walk to the top. There will be 59 elevators in the Kingdom Tower (including 54 single-deck and 5 double-deck elevators). There will also be 12 escalators. Speed of the elevators? 10 meters per second!
According to statistics analyzed by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat:
• 2013 was the 2nd best year for the completion of buildings that are over 200 meters tall.
• The best ever year was in 2011 with 81 buildings completed around the world and 2013 saw 73 buildings of that height going up.
• It’s in the United Arab Emirates that we find three of the tallest buildings in the top five.
• It’s China that built more buildings of over 200 meters than any other country, completing last year 37 buildings in 22 different cities. That means that China built 50% of the world’s tallest building in 2013. The tallest building in China is in Changzhou: the 332-meter Modern Media Center.
• The USA only built one 200+ building in 2013 and that was the one at 1717 Broadway, New York. It measures 230 meters. But, the spire of the 541-meter One World Trade Center will only enter the figures this year (2014).
• It’s Asia that dominates the world with 73% of all completions in 2013 in that area.
• There were no megatall (600-plus meters) buildings built in 2013.
• There were 9 supertall buildings of over 300 meters, however.
• There is a forecast of approximately 65 to 90 buildings that will be over 200 meters that are on the books for 2014.
• 13 buildings that are planned for completion in 2014 will be considered supertalls.
• They include the Spine Tower in Istanbul, Turkey and the KKR2 Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
But, will people want to work and even live in the staggering kilometer-high tower? That’s another matter. But, one thing is for sure, people always get attracted to what’s the biggest, the tallest and the best. But, why aren’t we building the best in the West?
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If the muslems start worshipping the intellect that could build this thing instead of the meteor things might turn around for humans. Otherwise drink up, the end is nigh.
bitchez
Payback time for the World Trade Center in 3, 2, 1 [decades]
yeah and they hate us for our freedom too right?
LOL sure.
Tallest buildings are advertisements so 7 billion people know who to go after when they want what was stolen from them back.
Sign of an upcoming stockmarket crash
tiny manhood syndrome
imagine what the insurance on this thing is like? these seem to me like they are begging to be bombed.
Tall buildings like this reduce the airline training requirements for crazies bent on doing something stupid
Pissing down is better than looking up? Elevation envy? Or finding a mineral reason way your shit gets taken down everytime? Buildings getting taller BTFD
Oh Boy! A new target for Directed Free-Energy Technology. Operation "Dustification" is in the works ;-)
just imagine what tesla could have done with these resourses, its wasted on the muslem mind.
compensation tower.
The way the world seems to be headed, wouldnt it make more sense to go down instead of up?
The only thing wrong about building ever taller buildings.. you age faster than if you are at ground level!
I thought it was the other way around -- the faster you go the slower is time for you.
Jump off the top of a tall building and the speed of descent means you live longer.
I can see the Burj Khalifa from where i am sitting right now and no matter what they build in Saud, i wouldnt go.
Any country that doesnt serve alcohol isnt on my list of places to go. In addition my wife and daughter would be more safer in the middle of Ukraine than in Saudi
Just saying
"Tall building syndrome is a well-known phenomenon. The topping out of the world’s tallest buildings has frequently happened at the point when a local property boom peaked. The reasoning is that it takes a tremendous marshalling of money and resources to build tall, and that can only happen during an exceptional economic boom."
http://www.arabianmoney.net/gcc-real-estate/2009/01/26/tallest-building-...
Memorial to the petro dollar.
I glad someone finally mentioned this.
I want my money back for the overpricing of gasoline.
You are taking it from transnational Corp. And not a country or you like Corp news fucking with you all the TIME!
It's just a more obvious version of "mines bigger'-after all, they've got to do SOMETHING with all that oil money!
And/or a variation of The Tower of Babel.
It's not like these child molesting monkeys would launch a Manhattan Project to cure a disease or anything, when they can build a giant sky dick.
Kenny is not up there
Penile inferiority complex of modern man being manifest in the desire to build or own the longest vertical shaft ; compensation for male physical shortcomings either real or perceived.
. Throughout millenium the more stable dome shaped buildings were constructed having a resemblance, from the outside, to the female mammary gland often with an ornate structure, functional or decorative, at the top not unlike a nipple.
My own preference is for tthe dome structure both from the aesthetics of the outside appearance and the more pleasant experience of being inside a dome than atop an extreme multi story structure.
We'll all be in domes, or underground, soon enough.
Will the top floor be occupied by the hang glider's club?
Catch a bad wind and they will come down in Iran or Syria. Not a nice landing.
The tallest building in China is not what is listed in the article.
Only in Shenzhen, they have one 441.8 meter high building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KK100 & another 384 m high one I have visited.
They 441.8 meter bulding KK 100 is amazing, you should visit the st. regis hotel & restaurant there if you are in Shenzhen.
Actually the highest bulding in China stands at over 600 meters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_China
^^ nice view from the bund and the bar in that building next door.
Why would anyone go to Saudi Arabia?
The tallest building in the world that NO ONE will ever see in person. May as well have it built in Yemen, North Korea, or the South Pole.
Or Cleveland.
I assume it will be pre-wired for controlled demolition.
Look, we are living in an age where dumb asses rule. No one reads, no one can think critically. All we have is I have more money than you, my building is taller than yours.
Portuus, the super grey alien approves of this tower
I didn't know the Jehova Witness were doing that well.
One big monument to their stupidity in battling the nascent MERS virus.
It's not enough to be ridiculously rich. You have to gloat.
I bags the elevator maintenance contract.
Middle East Real-estate Syndrome?
I remember standing in a balcony in a high rise in LA looking down on the street. The cars looked like ants. It was just after the Mexico earthquake, and thinking of how earthquake prone California was, I couldn't wait to get out of the building.
Just being honest. I wouldn't feel comfortable in a high rise of any type, to work in or to live.
...especially one built on sand.
Hmmmm...I guess they're not worried about anyone slamming a jumbo jet into it.
Revenge is a bitch.
The slammers to which you refer were Saudi, but the Saudi STATE nevertheless a valued US ally. The distinction is apparently lost on most western muppets. Every country has its criminals.
You mean like the western muppets that fail to recognize that the state IS the criminal class?
Nimrod lives.
"Pride goeth before a fall." Just sayin'.
We don't build them in the West because all our money went to the places that are now building tall. In my state, we can't even keep the potholes filled.
i love it!! i can't wait! when they drop that baby, every camel in arabia is going to abort. might even make some jungle monkeys climb out of the trees. i love this. give them another target. nice job guys. - believe me - nobody in muslim world is loving the saudis.
their just begging for an alien abduction,
fail.