Meet the World's Next Tallest Building

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Meet Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia, which I imagine will be the setting of many a Roland Emmerich film in the future.

Originally planned to be a mile high, now it's just over one kilometer high. Judging by its pointiest of points, it will serve a secondary purpose of impaling alien spaceships.

Look, its first prey is built into the design!

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You can read more about the building here, if you're less interested in alien threats and more interested in mundane details like "architects" or "square meters".

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2 Responses to “ Meet the World's Next Tallest Building ”

  1. George Bell20 October 2011 at 14:10

    That's awesome. In the original article it says the elevators travel at 22mph. I don't know if that's supposed to be impressive, since I have no idea how fast normal building elevators travel. Maybe they're, like, super elevators like the one in Willy Wonka.

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  2. theoncominghope21 October 2011 at 08:10

    lol that would be great. elevator TO THE SKY!

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