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Saudi Arabia to Build World's Tallest Building

  •   Sat, Apr 16 2011 09:32:26 AM

Moscow, April 16 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The world's tallest building, the one-mile high Kingdom Tower, will be built in western Saudi Arabia.

The skyscraper, expected to cost $30 billion, will be erected in Obhur, some 30 km north of Jeddah City on the Red Sea's eastern coast, Arab media reported.

It will take 12 minutes to get to the top of the building by elevator. The project stipulates the construction of an 8.9 sq mile city around the Kingdom Tower which can accommodate 80,000 residents and about one million visitors.

Kingdom Tower, which will host offices, a hotel and residential areas, will be almost double the height of the world's tallest building, the 0.51-mile Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It will also exceed Dubai's 0.62-mile Nakheel Harbor and Tower whose construction has been put on hold.
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  • Don, Mangalore/Canada

    Sat, Apr 16 2011

    Hmmmmm...…the worlds tallest tower.

    All I can hope is that this tower too would not built on near slave labour as was built the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and many high rise buildings in the Middle East.

    Just reading of the number of people who died during the construction of the tower in Dubai due to very poor safety standards, the long hours of hard work, very low pay and the inhuman living conditions for the construction workers mainly from Asia, makes me shudder to think that this exploitation is going to start all over again.

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