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World’s Tallest Building To Be Built In Saudi Arabia (Reign Of The Tech)

Worried about a world wide economic meltdown?  Don’t tell anybody in Saudi Arabia.  Funded by American gas and oil money, Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal announced plans to build the world’s tallest building in the Saudi town of Jeddah.  The building, a part of a larger $26.7 billion project titled Kingdom City, is planned to be over a kilometer high at 3,281 feet surpassing the Burj tower (pictured above at 2,320 feet) located where else but Dubai, which has another skyscraper, the Nakheel Tower set to rise to 1 km high itself.  The oil rich nation of Kuwait also has an enormous skyscraper in the works, the Burj Mubarek Al Kabir, which is planned to be 1,001 meters tall… essentially one meter higher than a kilometer for those of you who are metrically challenged.  Who needs financing when you’re awash in black money!

Here’s a look at some of the other large skyscrapers being planned for the next 10 years including the Freedom Tower in NYC and the Chicago Spire in the Windy City.  In case you’re wondering, the taller of the US towers, the Chicago Spire, is only planned to rise to 600 m… far less than the towers being planned in the Middle East.  Once the skyscraper capital of the world, the United States is fast being surpassed by the countries in the Middle East who are building at a record pace despite the economic woes being experienced by those of us in the states.  Makes you wonder doesn’t it?  At minimum, the boom going on in places like Dubai makes one view the investment by our country into this region of the world in a slightly different light. 

And if the world’s tallest building, and the world’s first rotating building wasn’t enough… Dubai also plans to bring you the world’s largest television.  A whopping 33 stories high and ecompassing the entire face of a building, this LED television in Dubai will be visible from over a mile away.  Wow! 

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