Would people be able to live and work in the world's tallest skyscraper?

Would people be able to live and work in the world's tallest skyscraper?

At one kilometer, Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Tower will be the tallest skyscraper in the world. A new construction date has been announced, but there’s still a lot of questions around this structure.

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They're Finally Building the World's New Tallest Tower

They're Finally Building the World's New Tallest Tower

For three years, the fate of Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Tower has hung in the balance. Originally conceived in the heady days of the 2000s, the project has gone through multiple false starts since 2008. Now reduced to a mere kilometer, the tower has finally been given a start-date for construction.

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How the World's Next Tallest Building Will Be Built

How the World's Next Tallest Building Will Be Built

A crucial step towards building the next tallest building on Earth is underway: Engineers on the Kingdom Tower, a proposed 3,280 foot tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, are beginning tests to figure out how to pump wet concrete more than half a mile into the sky.

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