The Tallest Building in the World

Amount of tall buildings shows prosperous of a country. Especially own the tallest building in the world. In 1998, Twin Tower which locate in Malaysia has become the tallest building around the world. World start to take note of this country. However Malaysia built the tallest building in the world in 1988, I think this may shocked some countries.

The Twin Tower, consists of 88 stories, landmark of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia

Taipei 101, consists of 101 stories, landmark of Taipei in Taiwan

After 6 years, it's beat by Taipei 101 in Taiwan which built on 2004. Taipei 101 was recorded as the highest building around the world till now. But soon a building nearly complete called The Burj Dubai which consists of 162 stories that locate in Dubai will replace the Taipei 101 and become the tallest building in the world. On January of 2009, Burj Dubai has reached it's highest height, that is 818m. It will record as tallest building after the installation works are done in December or September.

The Burj Dubai, still under constructed, the next tallest building after Taipei 101

The Burj Dubai hit by lightning

Different view of The Burj Dubai

However this doesn't make sense for the prince of Saudi Arabia. He release a message that he has plan to build a tower about 1 mile tall (5,280 feet or 1.6KM) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This building named as Mile-High Tower which will cost around US$10billion.

Mile-High Tower compare to other buildings

3D picture of Mile-High Tower

If you thought that 1.6KM tall will be the tallest in the world than you are totally wrong. How about double it? 2 miles or 10560 feet or 3.2KM tall. It might become the real. Yes, it is. The Ultima Tower which is 5 x height of The Burj Dubai. It's look like volcano from it's exterior. How much? US$ 150 billion, it is quite a large amount so the possibility still cannot be confirm. Please imagine how high it is, at the top floor, there can easy store the snow and play any activities that are related to the snow or ice. The Chinese-American Famous Architecture Eugene Tsui said that it consists of 500 stories and can accommodate 1 million people at the same time. He plans to build it in USA.

Ultima Tower designed by Eugene Tsui

Another amazing design was X - seed 4000. It was designed earlier than Ultima Tower. If this design become real then a 13,123 feet high or more than 4 KM building will be seen in Tokyo. Same as Ultima Tower, it can accommodate 1 million people as the same time. The mainly of the electricity supply to support this building will come from solar energy. But it might hard to appear on Tokyo cause it costs about US$300-900 billion.

3D picture about X - seed 4000 in Tokyo, Japan

Top part of X-seed 4000. Over the cloud. Not suitable accommodate for human beings.

X -seed 4000 design drawing

Picture that shows how huge the building

Interior view