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Saudi
Arabia to build world's tallest building
Saturday April 16, 2011 08:44:32 AM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow: The world's tallest building, the one-mile high Kingdom Tower,
will be built in western Saudi Arabia.
The skyscraper, expected to cost $30 billion, will be erected in
Obhur, some 30 km north of Jeddah City on the Red Sea's eastern
coast, Arab media reported.
It will take 12 minutes to get to the top of the building by
elevator. The project stipulates the construction of an 8.9 sq
mile city around the Kingdom Tower which can accommodate 80,000
residents and about one million visitors.
Kingdom Tower, which will host offices, a hotel and residential
areas, will be almost double the height of the world's tallest
building, the 0.51-mile Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It will also exceed
Dubai's 0.62-mile Nakheel Harbor and Tower whose construction has
been put on hold.
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