The Saudi billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal announced this week that he wants to build a skyscraper a kilometre high. It would have a Four Seasons hotel and a 157th-floor terrace. High-speed, double-decker elevators would rush visitors to the top levels in barely a minute and a half. The projected “Kingdom Tower” in Jeddah would rise higher than Burj al-Khalifa, the 828-metre colossus that has been, since it opened in Dubai in January, the world’s tallest building.
沙特億萬富翁阿爾瓦利德?本?塔拉爾(Alwaleed bin Talal)上周宣布，他要建造一幢高1000米的摩天大樓。該大樓內(nèi)將設(shè)有一家四季酒店(Four Seasons)，在第157層還將設(shè)置一個(gè)露臺(tái)。高速雙層電梯能夠在短短一分半鐘之內(nèi)將游客運(yùn)送到大樓頂層。這幢計(jì)劃建在吉達(dá)的“王國(guó)塔”(Kingdom Tower)將比哈里發(fā)塔(Burj al-Khalifa)還要高。巨人般的哈里發(fā)塔高828米，自2010年1月在迪拜啟用以來，一直是世界上最高的建筑。