The Saudi royal family has unveiled plans to build the world's tallest building, which will be exactly a mile high. The Mile-High Tower, also named Kingdom Tower, is a skyscraper proposed for construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. At 1 mile (1,600 m; 5,280 ft) tall, it would be the tallest building built to date.
Construction of the tower in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah is expected to cost US$17 billion and will comprise 275 floors, making it twice as high as the current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
5-star hotels, offices, luxury apartments and a shopping facilities will all feature in the giant structure, which is to be financed by the Saudi royal family-owned Kingdom Holding Company. The city to be constructed around the Mile-High Tower will extend over an area of 23 million square metres (total investment US$26.6 billion). The city will have the capacity to accommodate 80,000 people in addition to shopping and entertainment facilities.
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| (The design proposal for the Kingdom City Tower in Jeddah) |
The title of world's tallest building was held by American structures for nearly all of the 20th century, with the Empire State Building, the Sears Tower and the World Trade Center all holding the honour until the Petronas Twin Towers opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1998.
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