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.
沙烏地億萬富翁阿爾瓦利德•本•塔拉爾(Alwaleed bin Talal)上週宣佈,他要建造一幢高1000米的摩天大樓。該大樓內將設有一家四季酒店(Four Seasons),在第157層還將設置一個露臺。高速雙層電梯能夠在短短一分半鐘之內將遊客運送到大樓頂層。這幢計劃建在吉達的「王國塔」(Kingdom Tower)將比哈里發塔(Burj al-Khalifa)還要高。巨人般的哈里發塔高828米,自2010年1月在杜拜啓用以來,一直是世界上最高的建築。