Plans for a mile high skyscraper in Tokyo could be twice as tall as the current tallest building in the world, Dubai's Burj Khalifa.
It would be about 2,000 feet tall, more than 200 feet taller than One World Trade, the city's current tallest building.
Some of the big no-shows: Norr, Woods Bagot (designer of the world's next tallest tower), SOM (designer of the world's current tallest tower and the world's next next tallest tower), HOK, RMJM, WATG, Aedas (designers of Dubai's metro stations).
This one-kilometre-high spike rising out of the relatively modest plains of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia will be over three times taller than the Shard and reach 180 metres higher than the world's current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
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It will outstrip the current tallest flagpole, in Azerbaijan, which is 531 feet.
Space is less constrained in Frankfurt, and indeed at Canary Wharf in the east of London, the site of Britain's current tallest building and two more towers that are nearing completion.
Some of the flats will be in high-rise blocks that could reach 50 storeys, he said, making them more or less level with the Beetham Tower, the city's current tallest building, on Deansgate.
The current tallest, the Burj Khalifa, is self-explanatory in that sense, as its name – formerly the Burj Dubai – immortalises the bailout that the emirate received from Abu Dhabi when its bubble burst.
The current tallest building, at over 828 metres (2,716 feet), is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, a sky-piercing structure of such immensity that it bears no relation to the human-proportioned Bedouin huts that peppered this location just a few decades ago.
