The One Mile High Kingdom Tower

Saudi Arabia has just announced its plans to construct, the Kingdom Tower, a one mile tall building that take the crown for the world’s tallest structure. To give you some perspective the former tallest structure in the world was Dubai’s Burj Khalifa sitting at 2700 feet high. The Kingdom Tower, also known as the Mile-High Tower in Arabic, is set not only to break that record but shatter it by nearly doubling it with a standing of approximately 2500 feet (just in case you didn’t know how many feet were in a mile, not saying that you don’t).


The Kingdom Tower was commissioned by Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal, the head of Kingdom Holding Company which is the largest company in Saudi Arabia. That’s a good thing as it’s billed to cost about 30 billion US dollars to construct and included up to 12 million cubic feet of space including, office space, hotel rooms, and four tiers of residential area. [Click here for the a general building plan.] The last 800 feet is planned to be used for “alternative energy generation”. Possibly a wind/solar combo to help generate power for the building? Maybe it’ll make enough to sell off and pay for the hefty price tag.