Saudi Arabia Prepares to Build the World’s Tallest Building

Echos of the Tower of Babel? The Kingdom Tower in Jeddah will be 1km tall, dwarfing the current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai which sits at roughly 800 meters. Jeddah sits roughly 54 miles or 88 kilometers from Mecca. Here’s a good chart comparing it to other contenders: Mashable has some great computer […]