We’re all in favor of urban density, but why do we need a skyscraper that’s a mile high? Saudi Arabia-based Kingdom Holding Company, headed by Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal, has given the green light to build a 1 mile high tower in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. Designed by Adrian Smith of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, the “Kingdom Tower” will be twice as tall as the Burj Khalifa, include 12 million cubic feet of space and it will take 12 minutes for a regular elevator to reach the top! We’re flabbergasted.
Via Architizer Via SingularityHub and Gulfnews
What, your for density and now your against it. Density is a matter of opinion. I doubt the tower will have a huge market. Probably cheaper to build smaller somewhere else. No one at Inhabitat will be happy until Earth looks like Coruscant.
Because it can be built. That is why.