The 1km Kingdom Tower will dwarf the 828m Burj Khalifa. You will be able to travel through it at 10m per second using one of its 59 elevators. If you want to go up to that observation deck — which is going to be private, apparently — it will take you one minute and 40 seconds to do it. [AS+GG]
EckyThump
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 8:33 AMCertainly would be insane if said building actually existed!! #]
poltak
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 8:56 AMIt’s the Half-Life 2 citadel…
Benoit Faivre
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 9:23 AMI’d love to see the evacuation planning in case of an emergency. I work in a 34 stories tall building in Brisbane and it takes a minimum of 10 mins to go from the top to the safe zone. But climbing down 1Km of stairs? Except of course if they provide parachutes for everyone :)
jason
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 2:55 PMI’d say base jumping is the only option here.
or maybe the worlds biggest zipline
Scott
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 10:03 AMAnd to think, all of this shall one day return to sand.
EckyThump
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 10:17 AMthat’s very zen of you,..! I kind of hope it gets built though, if for no other reason than to goad others to going higher! Just think how high they’ll be able to go when they sort out the new ‘Glass Steel” #]
Morkai
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 5:31 PM“glass steel”?
Nathan
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 11:08 AMDubai is going to be one heck of a ghost town.
Ross
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 10:05 AMBespin!!!
Cloud city!!!
Steve
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 8:56 PMIt’s totally Padme’s apartment building from the star wars prequels. It even has that little landing pad Anakin leaves on to go murder some children.
Awnshegh
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 12:01 PMI wonder how much movement it has in the top few floors. I know the Burj only sways about 1.5m but with the extra height I’m sure it will increase.
I like sailing but not at 1km up in the air.
Nick
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 12:05 PMFinally,
The future is here. I was wondering how long it would take for prototype styling to make it to the present.
Now, we need to work on Minority Report style cars… Google?
airport
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 12:36 PMthey should also build an airport on the top floor which they are at it.
Sevrin
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 12:43 PMVallet…bring me my Millenium Falcon!
JD
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 1:15 PMbugger this stuff off already and build a floating city =3
Craig
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 1:23 PMHow unoriginal.
That’s the Agency Tower, straight out of Crackdown. ;)
Kris
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 1:45 PMBase jumpers nirvana.
ExplosionsHurt
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 4:32 PMThe circle thing looks perfect to land a helicopter on.
pd
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 7:45 PMMine is longer than that.
anthony
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 8:33 PMi like the ambitious cliental ariving in mercedes and ferraris.. i guess just for the 1% of the uber rich arabs only :P
Paul
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 9:43 PMImagine being a window washer on that.
matt
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 11:28 PMyou know what would make the view of that balcony even more spectacular? not building the worlds greatest observation tower in the middle of a fucking wasteland…
John
Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 12:05 PMPeople are talking about evacuation plans. Tall buildings such as this, based on the ones in Dubai, don’t evacuate people. On specific floors they have re-enforced areas where people seal themselves into. They are kind of like bomb shelters in the air. They have heat shielding, food, water, and external air supplies. The only problem comes if the building collapses.