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Last year, one of the world's best science fiction writers teamed up with a respected engineer to build a twelve-and-a-half mile-high tower. For the record, that's 24 times higher than the planet's current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. It's way Disgraced boss selling 11-room mansionWall Street's 'Gorilla' wants $40 million for mountain estate. Not far from Ecuador's capital, tourists flock to a line etched in the ground and straddle it so they've got one foot on either side of the equator. The world’s tallest skyscraper is set to start construction walking is also an option via the six mile long ramp running from the first to the 170th floor. Alongside the ramp are 56 different 30 foot high courtyards used for basketball, tennis DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says he is looking at global cities, including New York, as possible locations to build a mile-high skyscraper that would be the world's tallest building by far. The prince is At least the upper third of the tower eight cabs high and continually go up and down the building rather than respond to buttons pushed by occupants on any particular floor. Shortly after his death at age 91 in 1959; Frank Lloyd Wright was named Click image for a larger view. In 1956, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, a noted proponent of small, squat buildings, unveiled a design for a mile-high skyscraper. Wright acknowledged that construction materials available at the time were inadequate for his .

RELATED ARTICLES: World's tallest Kingdom Tower going 'as planned' | Convincing Kingdom Tower investors took 20 months | Princess Tower builder apologises for lift failure RELATED ARTICLES: World's tallest Kingdom Tower going 'as planned' l Convincing Money is the only obstacle to building the first mile-high skyscraper, a leading building design expert said, revealing that a firm in the Middle East planned to build a 1.5 mile (2.4km) high supertower four years ago before the global recession saw the Eugene Tsui's design for a two-mile high, one-mile wide eco-topian tower that houses one million people and contains its own ecosystems seems like something out of a Robert Silverberg novel. But Tsui is dead serious — and he's got the architectural chops The Saudi Arabian government has green-lit the construction of the world's largest tower: a staggering, record-shattering mile-high cloud-tickler from Riyadh's Kingdom Holding Company. The Kingdom Tower is so big that it would take an elevator 12 minutes .

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